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Thursday, 16th July 2009

Sun Shareholders Say Aye to Oracle Merger

As of today, the shareholders of Sun Microsystems have approved the merger with Oracle at a meeting at Sun's offices in Santa Clara, California. Announced on April 20th, Sun will be bought for $9.50 a share in cash, a grand total of $7.4 billion. Thus far, the merger has encountered some bumps in the road. Despite confident statements from…

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Google Voice to add Audio Ads?

According to Unwired View, Google Voice just filed an application with Fish and Richardson legal services on a patent that is suspected to monetize caller waiting on Google Voice. The patent application lays claim to the methods and software "in which an indication of a telephone call being placed from a calling number is received, and a…

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Douglas Rushkoff's Open Source Economy: A ReadWriteWeb Interview

Douglas Rushkoff — author, documentarian, and teacher — is a man on a mission. As a step towards getting "people to see the software-like code lying underneath how they interact," his latest book, Life, Inc., explores the nature of money, our economic system, and how a corporate mindset has shaped who we are as people in modern society…

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Data.gov to Face a Challenger From Sunlight Labs

Data.gov, the US federal government's new catalog of sets of public data for outside developers to mashup and analyze, now faces some friendly competition. The Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to government transparency, has announced that it will launch a National Data Catalog to go above and beyond what…

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Pull the Plug or Life Support? Google Wants To Know Your Final Wishes

Google announced today that it has begun prompting users of its online health information service to fill out Advanced Care Directives, the documents that communicate end-of-life wishes ahead of time in case you're unable to communicate while hospitalized. On one level, that makes sense: communicate your wishes about being kept on life support…

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