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Microsoft Slurps Up Opalis

in News on December 11, 2009 at 10:57 am PT

Evidently, Microsoft is back in a buying mood. Yesterday, the company announced plans to acquire health-care software outfit Sentillion. And now Microsoft says it plans to buy Opalis Software, a maker of data center management software.
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Insert Bad "Google Captchas reCAPTCHA" Pun Here

in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.
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Insert Bad “Google Captchas reCAPTCHA” Pun Here

in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.
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Uninstall Microsoft Workforce Service Pack?

in News on December 22, 2008 at 3:05 pm PT

Tech may be done with layoffs for 2008, but 2009 is another matter entirely. Now that the souring economy has had its way with Yahoo and AMD and Palm and Sun and Nortel, it’s moving on to bigger fare. We’ve already heard predictions that Google will sack as much as 15 percent of its workforce next year. Now come rumors that Microsoft is steeling itself for large-scale job cuts as well.