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Yeary, 45, is an adviser to the chancellor and his senior staff on strategic and financial issues important to UC Berkeley. Prior to this appointment in 2008, Yeary retired as global head of mergers and acquisitions for Citigroup after nearly 25 years in finance. Yeary received his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in economics and history.

Donahoe, 48, has served as eBay president and CEO since 2008. He joined eBay in 2005 and oversaw the company’s global e-comm

FuelFrog
FuelFrog lets you use Twitter to track your
car’s fuel use.

PIMPY3WASH
OK, so maybe you can’t use this and it’s only designed for one person, but PIMPY3WASH is the neatest washing machine hack I’ve seen, so I had to include it.

I’ve dug through countless services to find some interesting, loopy, and just plain cool tools that allow you to do more than talk to friends. From receiving tweets when your clothes are clean to tracking packages, Twitter is a

In sum, Red Hat is doing exceptionally well and has finally turned JBoss into a thriving asset rather than a Marley’s ghost come back to haunt it for clutching too eagerly at its past. Everyone in open source benefits when Red Hat does well. And Red Hat is demonstrating that it is doing very, very well.

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Strong renewals and upsells across its customer base.
Red Hat’s middleware business is growing at twice the rate of the platform business. Middleware

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While the public’s interest in ancient Rome has exploded due in large part to movies like Gladiator and TV shows like HBO’s Rome, Google is promoting the new layer as an educational tool and has invited teachers to submit innovative lesson plans that incorporate the new feature.

The digitization project began in 1997 and took 10 years to complete. It then took 15 people the better part of a year to transfer the project to the Web.

It’s already being used in the B1 bomber, the F35 joint strike fighter, the Airbus 380, Boeing 767, and NASA’s next-generation shuttle, and now will be available for use on computers running Windows, Linux, and other desktop operating systems.

“The challenge will be convincing people that they need this; that they have to be doing something different from what they’re doing now with commercial software like VMware or Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology,” he said. “In the commercia

We will review all planned investments in IT equipment, hardware, software, facilities, and company
cars, as well as internal IT projects. Do not order any new equipment at this time.

There is a deep, rich irony to an internal SAP directive to immediately halt all new IT purchases, a directive revealed by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. SAP’s co-CEOs sent out an e-mail with the following instructions:

CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum wonders if SAP expects its

The move is part of the Yahoo Open Strategy. Yahoo announced the SearchMonkey move on its blog on Thursday.

Yahoo has broadened use of its SearchMonkey technology to spruce up search results with specific information from Citysearch and Zagat, the company said Thursday.

SearchMonkey draws upon “semantic Web” information used to help computers better understand the data on Web sites. SearchMonkey can build that data, such as movie ratings or restaurant phone numbers, i

Motorola hasn’t ignored the smartphone market entirely. It has introduced a handful of Windows Mobile phones including the Motorola Q. But new competitors, such as Apple with the iPhone and Research in Motion with the BlackBerry, have clearly stolen the show and garnered much of the attention in the smartphone category.

“It’s really hard to go into the smartphone market using a third party operating system,” said Tavis McCourt, an equity analyst with Morgan Keegan 

Vringo has also fluffed up its buddy-management system, adding an all-new Share button on the main interface and a few more prompts to invite buddies into the fold. The Share button, in particular, serves existing users well and is another outlet for Vringo to recruit new clients. No Vringo app, no quirky video ringtone.

*If you’re using a Sony Ericsson phone running the Java 7 operating system, you’ll also see your own Vringo ringtone play back silently when you call a pal.

• Sales in China in the fiscal first quarter, which ended June 30, were $1.7 billion, or 48 percent of the total. Lenovo has a 28.6 percent market share in China.

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The company reported a net loss of $16 million, or 18 cents a share, in the first quarter, on revenue of $3.5 billion. Lenovo, which remains tethered to the commercial market, has been