By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer October 12 2007: 10:11 AM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Software provider Oracle is making a cash bid for BEA Systems, offering a 25 percent premium over its closing price that could set off a bidding war for the company. Oracle (Charts, Fortune 500) is offering $17 a...
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Oracle makes $6.7B bid for BEA
Inkless printing – Zero Ink Printing
Picture a world where you don’t have to deal with interminable “toner low” messages from your printer or make trips to Staples to buy pricey replacement cartridges. In this brave new world, you may not even need a printer – because there’s one built into your cell phone or your digital camera. All you...
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Google’s CFO to Retire by End of Year
Google’s CFO to Retire by End of Year from PhysOrg.com (AP) — Google Inc. said Tuesday that its chief financial officer will retire by the end of the year, creating the highest-ranking job opening at the Internet search leader since it went public three years ago.
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Cold-Fusion Graybeards Keep the Research Coming
At an MIT lecture hall on Saturday, a convocation of 50 researchers and investors gathered to discuss a phenomenon that allegedly does not exist.Despite a backdrop of meager funding and career-killing derision from mainstream scientists and engineers, cold fusion is anything but a dead field of research. Presenters at the MIT event estimated that...
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Regular Expressions in Java
As from release 1.4, Java 2 comes with a regular expression class that supports patterns similar in style to Perl regular expressions. This page gives you a brief introduction to regular expressions if you’re not already familiar with them, then covers Java-specific topics such as compile and match methods, Pattern objects and PatternSyntaxExceptions. BASIC...
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