By following last November’s purchase of InnoDB with the recent acquisition of Sleepycat Software, all Larry Ellison has to do is squeeze hard to kill corporate usage of MySQL.

Kent Newsome has been on a blogging tear lately.

Bill Gates showed off today a virtual wallet, code-named InfoCard, that will allow people to make transactions online without user names or passwords, and thus, without fear of those things being stolen.

Openwave announced they’re working with Sun Microsystems in a plan to develop new content for mobile phones. The plan will integrate Openwave’s XML-based MIDAS with sun’s Java ME and will provide standards-based tools and environments to create and deliver that content.

Engadget has a post by Ross Rubin theorizing that Microsoft is backing HD-DVD in order to guarantee a bloody format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and thus result in neither format winning.

Facing daily fines of about $2.4 million from the European Commission, Microsoft has displayed a confident public face on their compliance with antitrust regulator demands.

Reading an item from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I was reminded of one of the comments submitted to Jeremy Zawodny’s blog after he blasted a Silicon Valley PR agency for allegedly spamming him.

Hot off the wire. BearingPoint is partnering with Google to provide enterprise search solutions for various verticals.

Not in the short term, anyway; scientists and others who prefer Apple’s computers to Windows will have to wait a year for full compatibility with the new website.

Wow, the rumors were true. Oracle is snapping up Open Source Database companies now.

Google has announced the acquisition of blog analytics provider, Measure Map.

And they want their error message back!

David Sifry provided part two of his State of the Blogosphere report, and announced a couple of new tools for the Technorati blog search engine.

Could Google’s recent change to their “Help Center” be an admission that they do manually change search results?

A partnership of Google and BearingPoint means corporate purchasers of Google’s hardware can contract for assistance installing and configuring Google for the enterprise.

Valentine’s Day shopping, it may be said, is driven by the “dog house factor” as much as or more than love. Men have long suspected that the holiday was contrived by sinister dealings between marketers and women. An online poll by Harris Interactive suggests that the agreed upon day for symbolic materialism is a bit more important to the ladies, but not near as important as to the online marketer.

The Measure Map team has joined Google, bringing their blog stat/web analytics to the search advertising company and asking bloggers to request an invitation to join the service.

So, I hung out with the Office Live team last week and got the skinny.

Okay, some stuff sitting around in open tabs:

To earn the Microsoft certified systems engineer certification and to prove expertise in designing and implementation of the infrastructure for business solutions based on the Microsoft Windows 2003 platform and Microsoft Windows Server system, MCSE exam is the best medium.

My point exactly: BusinessWeek writes that corporate blogging is an internal rather than external communications channel. And not only that — the “bloggers” don’t even know they’re blogging.

[Straining] I won’tmake lamegender puns! Iwon’tmake lamegender puns! There are no himbos allowed in this blogher network, unless you’d like a real herstory-making, estronomical dose of herorrhoids. Doh! Himicane, hersterectomy, feminsula! Daggone it!

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In my circle of friends, I’m know as the geek’. I’m the blogger’, who doesn’t do any real work, I just blog. More and more of my friends are starting blogs though and it’s not just because of me either.