Former Oracle executive John Wookey has joined SAP.

Wookey, who served as Oracle’s senior vice president of applications development for 12 years, left the enterprise software applications maker 13 months ago. Prior to his departure, he was responsible for Oracle’s Fusion initiative, which seeks to take the best features of its acquisitions and meld them together [...]

The company has also increased the size limit of uploaded video files from 100MB to 1GB. This should open things up dramatically for people who are shooting in high-quality VGA video mode on their digital cameras, something that can turn a one-minute video capture into files that would have exceeded the previous limits.
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For the second quarter of 2008, U.S. mobile subscribers sent and received on average 357 text messages per month, compared with making and receiving 204 phone calls a month, according to Nielsen. The new statistic is a clear indication that Americans have jumped onto the SMS text bandwagon.

But in the U.S. texting is proving to [...]

At the famous Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Nintendo is getting ready for its E3 press conference. Among the images it is showing on the screen while everyone waits is this one, which demonstrates the widespread appeal of the Wii, including to senior citizens, not your normal gamers.

LOS ANGELES–And so we wait. Some more.

Fils-Aime also [...]

Another question for Sun will revolve around how much open-source software will be required to move the hardware and services needle. MySQL, with more than 70 million downloads, is a good candidate to jump-start movement in hardware and services. Will it be enough?
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Sun Microsystems’ most recent quarter took a hit from a slumping U.S. economy, [...]

“This week is definitely all the post-election aftermath, but I’m definitely looking forward to jumping right into some of the international politics (and) international elections,” said Zuckerberg (who is, in case you were wondering, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister). “It’s a little more fun to work on some of those because they don’t draw out their [...]

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Market share for December by operating system.
As the Fortune account points out, “Hidden in these monthly figures are the sharp spikes recorded by Apple’s mobile devices around the holidays.”
Windows continues to be the elephant in the room. It accounted for 88.68 percent of Web hits, according to the Operating System Market Share [...]