In addition to the zooming and maintenance work, Skyfire has paid attention to text. Instead of a single line of entry with a maximum of 256 characters, users can now type in up to 2,000 characters on multiple lines of text for any text field, making lengthier blog authoring or form-filling possible. Newly added support [...]

That last bullet should catch your eye. Later in the release, IBM states:
About six months ago, I ruminated to some friends that I thought the industry was waiting for three companies to clearly state their cloud value proposition: IBM, HP, and Cisco. I joined one (Cisco), interested in the opportunity to help drive that message. [...]

Here’s Recordon’s slide deck from his OSCON talk:

Correction, 12:05 p.m. PDT: This blog initially misspelled David Recordon’s last name.

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Recordon, Open Platforms Tech Lead at Six Apart, told me that the OWF’s mission is to bring a legal framework, consistency, and communication to the various existing Web [...]

You would run MobiShow–which would be connected to your computer via Wi-Fi–and then use your mobile phone to set the proper screen resolution, as well as to easily click through various slides in a PowerPoint presentation.

The idea is that with MobiShow running on your mobile phone, you can use that device as what amounts to [...]

SlyDial, a straight-to-voicemail call service I covered back in early April, has opened up its doors to everything this morning after undergoing three months of beta testing. New on Monday is a premium service heavy users can subscribe to in order to get all the perks of the service without having to listen to the [...]

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Sun is trying to hollow out Oracle’s momentum with an aggressive, all-you-can-eat pricing for MySQL, but the real competition in the short term is from Microsoft and IBM.
Verdict on Oracle’s consolidation strategy? Big ambition with big returns. Well done.
Over the past few years, Oracle has bought nearly every enterprise software company in existence, but comparatively [...]

The MobileMe mail problems don’t seem to have been fixed, although Apple is still claiming that only 1 percent of all MobileMe users are affected. While that’s indeed a pressing problem, Mossberg’s experience is enough to make you wonder if Apple’s a bit over its head trying to run a cloud computing service.
Apple's MobileMe [...]

Rambus first sued Samsung in 2005 for allegedly violating its patents of various dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, devices. Samsung immediately countersued in the Eastern District
Court of Virginia, claiming that the patents were invalid and unenforceable.

The court’s decision to stay out of the case leaves in place an April appeals court ruling (PDF) that [...]