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Fusion Oracle – Sun: lenqute europenne ruinous according to Larry Ellison

The direction D `Oracle begins S `impatienter srieusement and thus does not see D `an good eye the dcision of the Commission europenne D `deepening its enqute on fusion with Sun.

D `aprs information of Reuters, makes an attempt it S `avre particulirement coteuse for Sun. The chairman D `Oracle, estimates indeed that the amricain group per month in waiting of the green light of the autorits europennes of competition.

Dbut September, the Commission had wish to prolong its enqute, in particular because of possible distortions of the competition in the bases of give. By taking again Sun, Oracle puts galement, a concurrent solution.

For, it N `is not question of giving up MySQL. The leader S `awaits from any fawn what the Commission europenne validates acquisition, like it have dj done them.

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Open Network Invention shows its Microsoft turn to threaten Linux

Legal – At the time of lvnement LinuxCon, the director by far has Microsoft accumulators to davoir essay to rcemment sell rcemment patents of the known socits for tre procdurires and likely D `to attack Linux.

the Linux Foundation and the OIN, two associations of dfense of Linux, do not digrent dfinitivement the rcente sale of 22 patents (lily Linux) by Microsoft. Aprs Jim Zemlin, the director of the Linux Foundation, C `is with the turn of Open Invention Network (OIN) D `to show Microsoft to threaten Linux while resorting as arms the intellectual proprit.

Recall of the facts: dbut September, Microsoft cdait AST, a socit whose activit consists to acqurir patents, to provide its members of the perptuelles licences, then finally the cder D `other companies.

Microsoft forgets to however request the OIN rpute

the OIN S `is then brings closer D `AST for and to prvenir a repurchase by a hostile socit. However, according to Keith Bergelt, which S `is exprim this subject the occasion of LinuxCon de Portland, Microsoft could not be unaware of only association conceals a potential acquror dowry of financial means sufficient.

Pourtant never N `has T contacts by the ditor of Windows, which would have on the other hand approch several other companies, among which some are known to carry out legal actions against Linux in S `supporting on patents.

Keith Bergelt voluntarily shows moreover Microsoft D `to have insist during the ngociations on the bond with Linux of these diffrents patents, when those are on the contrary very often cds naked, load for the acquror D `auditer him-Mrs. the contents of the patent.

the acts of Microsoft in the free one pain to convince

For the leader of the Open Invention Network, the sale ralise by Microsoft had a motivation hiding place: crer a climate of fear, D `uncertainty and of doubt in the communaut. The firm of Redmond has dcidment great difficulty to cause confidence.

During its, the ditor has martel to however want to collaborate with Free the, insistent one for example on its agreements with Red Hat and Novell, the setting provision under licence LPG V2 of source (of the pilots for), or the cration of its Open Source foundation.

But Microsoft will have to further go, S `it wants rellement to convince of associations like the OIN or the Linux Foundation of its volont to collaborate with the free software.

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iPhone fissurs: the black srie continues

Technology – the cases dcrans diPhone fissurs are multiplis these last days a little everywhere in France. Dnombre ten dincidents was dsormais. Blamed, Apple remains on its rserve.

« We are quite conscious of these vnements and we wait to receive the iPhone our customers. Jusqu `what we have the complete dtails, we N `let us have anything more add. »

Voil the thin comment that our confrres of the Barber has russi to obtain to D `a spokesperson D `Apple whereas the number of cases D `notches D `iPhones fissurs multiplies. Since the dbut of the week, one dnombre dj 7 new tmoignages D `users reports/ratios in the press. Contrary to the dbut of the business O the incidents seemed localiss in the south of France, one finds Paris and in Parisian rgion of it, in Brittany, and in the Loire.

It (direction gnrale of competition, the consumption and the rpression of the frauds) opened a enqute to examine the diffrents tmoignages. Apple and envoy a request D `information with the Member States in their recommending to pass by Rapex, the systme D `alarm intracommunity on the products dangerous jugs.

Impossible still to draw the conclusions

the firm the apple speaks for the moment « D `incidental isols » and S `locks up in a badly felt dumbness. Remain qu `it is for the moment impossible to draw the least conclusion on this business. Nothing N `indicates that these breakings D `notches are not the rsultat of bad handling or shocks, D `exposure prolongs heat….

a dfaut on the sries of batteries N `is not to exclude for as much. One remembers qu `in 2006 Apple has procd with the recall of 2 million Sony batteries quipant his MacBook for problmes of overheating. (Eureka Press)

Game consoles: Microsoft and Sony mark the breeches

Business – the price drops are succdent: it S `acts to position well for Ftes of fine D `Anne…

the game consoles of dernire gnration are dj a little old. It S `thus acts to return them a little more sduisantes before stratgic the priode of Ftes of fine D `Anne.

a few days ago, annonait as its in version will be commercialis 299 euros. The raction of S `is not made wait.

This Thursday, Redmond indicates that the top-of-the-range version of its XBox 360 (Elite with its hard drive of 120 Go) will lose 50 euros (249 euros) to pass under on the price of the PS3. On the other hand cble HDMI will not be provided any more free.

Microsoft on the other hand will make pass the price of the modle D `between range, Xbox 360 Arcade, 199,99 euros with a play included.

Nintendo does not move

As Xbox 360 Premium, version intermdiaire, it would have vocation disparatre catalogue of Microsoft.

“; We know that the price influences the dcisions of the consumers largely, but we know galement qu `they seek a qualit positive ratio/price, and we rpondre each one of these points in order to will continue crotre and connatre the succs in Europe”; , explains Microsoft.

not to only have to move an ear, C `is, of which Wii caracol in tte of the sales of consoles in the world, in particular in the United States. Its machine `accidental `thus remains 249 euros.

Reste that for these three manufacturers, the context is difficult. The sales of machines and plays N `have these to drop during the Anne 2009 and the consumers seem aujourd `today to await nouveaut or arbitrate their dpenses with the bnfice for example of the mobilit (iPhone, portable applications etc…).

Rappelons that the PS3 has T launches in 2006 and XBox 360 in 2005.

Sony will launch the PS3 Slim dbut September 299 euros

Technology – the new version of the console will be smaller, more lgre and less greedy in nergie. It will be markets to leave September 1, 299 dollars (299 euros in Europe). Lactuelle PS3 passes to Mrs. tariff ds aujourdhui.

C `is the occasion of the living room GamesCon 2009 Cologne in Germany
that Sony Computer Entertainment Kazuo Hirai prsident it has dvoil the PS3 Slim.

It is 32% smaller and 36% more lgre that PlayStation 3 current, and
34% D `nergie in less with caractristic techniques will consume
identical and an hard drive of 120 Go.

It will be especially less chre, sold 299
euros at the time of its exit on September 1. The price
S `applies also the current PS3 80 Go which passes 399 299 euros ds
aujourd `today.

Better ratio qualit-price

“; C `TAIT the moment for us to change gives it. In these times of crisis, much of families prfraient to wait before D `to buy a PS3, anticipating a fall of prix”; explain Peter Dille, vice-prsident Marketing branch of.

For him, the PS3 offer quipement dsormais the best report/ratio/price.

“; For 299 euros, you become acquror D `a game console, D `a Blu-Ray reader and D `a disc of 120 Go”; recall it.

Remains knowledge how old the modle will be able to survive the exit
of Slim. Will Sony still lower its price or will leave it the rays?

the price drops of the Sony console conceals trs awaited, of many analysts
L `estimating essential so that Sony can remake its delay on Nintendo
(Wii) and Microsoft (Xbox 360).

“; I think that these price drops arrive too late. In the short run, we think that the sales will increase. But on the long run, it will be difficult since Microsoft and Nintendo also will lower their prix”; concludes Colin Sebastian, cabinet Lazard Capital Markets. (Eureka Press)

Base of give: Oracle raises the prices of its tools dadministration

C `is in all discrtion qu `Oracle has procd an increase consquente D `optimization for its basic applications of give. They are the software D `administration and of setting in conformit which is concerns by these price increases.
# Thus of the tools of diagnostic, tuning and configuration is invoices since July 1 prs of 43% of more qu `in 2008, passing from 3500 C 5000 dollars. The two first packs allow to the administrators rsoudre the technical problmes and of performance of the bases of give. As the application of configuration, it provides fonctionnalits of follow-up of the modifications.
# the licence of the dition undertaken of the base of give Oracle N `is not affects by an price increase. But it is true also that the ditor has dj rvalu the tariff of his licence of 20% the Anne dernire… It S `acts however prices catalogues to leave whose the companies will be able ngocier of the reductions.

will Zune HD from Microsoft be a iPod killer?

Technology – Available of Pr-order to the United States since Thursday, the new walkman of Microsoft will be available to leave September 15. Its tactile notch OLED 3,3 inches, its capacits of readings HD and its positioning aggressive price make a srieux competitor for liPod of it. The proof in vido.

Microsoft has officialis the coming out date of Zune HD, sound
walkman numric grce to which it espre to be able finally srieusement to compete
with Apple. It will arrive on September 15 but is dj available in Pr-order
in the United States only.

On the site which him
is consacr, Zune HD rvle a design lgant and sober in a format
allong which makes more think a smartphone qu `a walkman. It will be
available 5 colors with a choice of 10 engravings ralises by
artists. But these are the caractristic techniques which make a product of it
intressant. Zune HD possde a tactile notch OLED 16: 9th of 3,3
inches posting 480×272 pixels.

It can be transformed into reader High
Dfinition (720p) via a station D `reception (option) quipe D `an exit HDMI
who allows to connect it on a tlvisor HD. The vido treatment is assur
by a processor Tegra de Nvidia, a Ploughshare multiprocessor which liking
indpendamment the CPU, the streaming vido and the graphics processor.

Zune HD
embark a WiFi connection for surfer since hotspots with the navigator
intgr which is a version allge D `Internet Explorer. Ct storage, Zune
HD is available in two versions of 16 and 32 Go. What to contain
respectively 5 and 10 hours of vidos in HD or 22 and 48 hours of vidos in
standard dfinition.

an aggressive price

Microsoft seems to have well pens the things, jusqu `with
price: 220 dollars for Zune HD 16 Go and 289 for the version 32 Go.
Comparatively, the iPod 8 Go dimensions 229 dollars, 16 Go is sold 299 dollars
and 32 Go 399 dollars.

That will be it sufficient to make of the shade
Apple? To see. The only weak link of soldering iron remains the diffusion of
contents, thing in which Apple excels with iTunes. Microsoft N `does not have yet
russi crer this quation gaining between its walkman and its platform of
sale in line Zune Marketplace.

Reste knowledge finally if this modle will cross the Atlantic and the Pacific since its prdcesseurs N `never have T sold apart from the United States and of Canada. (Eureka Press)

Dmonstration of Zune HD by Brian Seitz (Microsoft)

Kindle: Amazon erases lgalement several books tlchargs by its customers

Technology – Continuation a problme of right dautor, Amazon has T constrained deffacer several works tlchargs by customers on their book lectronic Kindle. Without prvenir them…

Irony of the history, they are in particular two works of George Orwell, 1984 and the farm of animals qu `Amazon has effac quite simply watered effect of Kindle of its customers. An operation that the owners of the book lectronic have remark in for works qu `they lgalement had lgalement acquired on the Amazon site.

In ralit, it would seem that the ditor MobileReference who distributed these titles N `did not possdait the rights of them. The systme D `Amazon indeed allows diteurs to directly propose books in tlchargement. But obviously no contrle pralable N `is effectu by the bookseller on line. A spokesperson D `Amazon recognized that the removal of the titles conceals « bad a ide and that the systme went tre modifi of manire this qu `such a operation is not any more ncessaire » .

No contrle palable of the diteurs by Amazon

a similar msaventure S `is produced with D `other books and in particular of the titles D `Harry Potter. This business is likely to sow the disorder in the users of Kindle who go on a commercial platform, pays for tlcharger contents in theory lgal but is finally the thank you of this kind D `error. With Cl, an authoritative contrle and not explicit on their Kindle.

Only solution to prmunir itself against this kind of mthode, to safeguard the works on its computer, L O Amazon will not be able to come to erase them! (Eureka Press)

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Screens LCD: agreement on the prices enters the manufacturers according to Brussels

Legal – the Commission europenne enqute on the manufacturers dcrans LCD. It them souponne of sentendre on the prices. In the United States, four manufacturers, whose LG, Sharp and Hitachi, have dj T condamns for agreement.

The Commission europenne souponne of the manufacturers D `notches liquid crystals (LCD) of S `to hear on the prices of the products. , Brussels has indeed indiqu to have adress in May a list of objections certain manufacturers, reproaching them for violating the lgislation europenne.
# the names of the manufacturers incrimins and souponns thus D `to belong a trust are not prciss. Philips and have nanmoins indiqu according to Reuters to have reu this document of the Commission. These industry groups go prsent duty S `to explain and rpondre with the objections formuls by Brussels. The companies can galement require an audience to comment on orally the lments avancs by the autorit europenne.
# 585 million dollars D `amends towards by 4 manufacturers in the United States
# For, it S `thus acts D `a new calling into question. Indeed, the manufacturer has dj COP D `a door amends of 400 million dollars, precisely for agreement on the prices of notches LCD. The mark is moreover aims by enqutes of Japanese justice and south-corenne.
# But LG N `is. Justice amricaine had dcouvert indeed that Sharp, LG, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, and Hitachi S `taient runis several recoveries to be appropriate of the prices. In all, these industrialists had D S `to discharge from 585 million dollars D `fines.
# notches LCD reprsentent important a march. Liquid crystals are prsents in the mobile tlphones, readers MP3, will camras them, the portables, and of course also in the tlviseurs and the notches D `computers.