links for 2007-10-13
- Oracle announces bid for BEA Systems – Oct. 12, 2007: “Oracle (Charts, Fortune 500) is offering $17 a share for BEA (Charts), a leading provider of application software for computer servers. That’s worth about $6.7 billion, based on BEA’s total shares outstanding.” (tags: Oracle, BEA, Acquisitions, Java, applications, server, Business)
- A Day Without Email Is Like …: “A growing number of employers, including U.S. Cellular, Deloitte & Touche and Intel, are imposing or trying out “no email” Fridays or weekends. While the bans typically allow emailing clients and customers or responding to urgent matters, the normal (tags: Email, Enterprise, productivity, trends)
- Shawn Fanning’s Snocap lays off 60 percent of workforce | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: “Snocap, the music-licensing company best known for being the follow-up act of Napster founder Shawn Fanning, has cut its staff by 60 percent, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday evening.” (tags: Music, copyright, DRM, Legal, media)
- Website Performance | CSS Sprite Generator: “Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.” (tags: Web, performance, optimization, CSS, tools, Browser, utilities, webdev)
- Podcasting News » Five Reasons Total Music Will Be A Total Failure: “Total Music is likely to be a total failure, unless the music industry can find a way to use the service to introduce new users – people that aren’t familiar with the ease of ripping and handling digital music files – to the world of digital music.” (tags: Music, Business, iTunes)
- Silicon Alley Insider: Radiohead: 1.3 Mil Downloads! (But Big Music Not Dead): “he big music labels are in trouble, but not because Radiohead is giving its music away — they’re in trouble because they can’t sell CDs by artists who want to sell them.” (tags: Music, Business, radio, Radiohead, media)
- Radiohead’s Pot Of Gold at The End of In Rainbows: “According to [readwriteweb] poll US$5-9 is the most popular price range that people are willing to pay for the digital download version.” (tags: Music, Radiohead, trends, analysis)
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