1. Oracle to pay Hurd $950,000 per year
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Former HP CEO Mark Hurd stands to score big as co-president at Oracle. Beyond the salary, there's a potential $5 million bonus in 2011, and oodles of stock options.Source: CNET News.com  ...

2. ZigBee Alliance coordinating vehicle-to-grid technology
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What will happen when millions of electric vehicles plug into the grid at at the same time? If ZigBee Alliance's blueprints for the smart grid go according to plan, not much.Source: CNET News.com  ...

3. Report: 3.24 million plug-in EVs sold by 2015
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As automakers gear up for market push of assorted plug-in vehicles, it looks like Chinese and U.S. drivers will buy the majority of them, according to Pike Research.Source: CNET News.com

4. HP to pay $55 million to settle kickback allegations
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Company's payment will close a Justice Department investigation into an alleged kickback scheme over government contracts.Source: CNET News.com

5. VMware positions Java for the cloud
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... and dynamic load balancing. The 2.5 million users of Spring will be eyed as initial users of the platform.Source: InfoWorld Top Stories  ...

6. Nikon Coolpix P100 [Review]
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I fondly remember earlier digicams like the Coolpix 5400 way back in 2003, complete with 5.1 million pixels, a 4x zoom lens and a vari-angle LCD viewfinder. Dirt cheap at AUD1599! In terms of the Coolpix ...

7. Microsoft to build massive Virginia data center
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The software maker confirms plans to spend up to $499 million to build a modular data center in Southern Virginia.Source: CNET News.com  ...

8. Samsung ships 1 million Galaxy S smartphones
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Company reaches a milestone in about six weeks with this line of Android-based smartphones, which have been available via AT&T and T-Mobile. Sprint is up next.Source: CNET News.com

9. 3M to buy biometrics firm Cogent for $943 million
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Cogent, which sells biometric ID systems to governments, law enforcement, and businesses, will be swallowed up by the massive conglomerate.Source: CNET News.com

10. Kior lands state loan to make 'biocrude' from wood
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Biofuel company Kior gets $75 million loan from Mississippi to scale up its catalyst-based process for turning biomass into gasoline or diesel fuel.Source: CNET News.com  ...

11. Google: 1 million Gmail calls during first day
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The ability to use Gmail to make and receive calls to regular phones generated significant interest in its first 24 hours.Source: CNET News.com

12. Garmin recalls some Nuvi GPS units
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Roughly 1.25 million of Garmin's Nuvi GPS units contain a battery at risk of overheating.Source: CNET News.com  ...

13. 'Freemium' antivirus firm Avast gets funding boost
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Security vendor has received a $100 million investment from private equity firm Summit Partners, in exchange for a minority stake in the company.Source: CNET News.com  ...

14. GE to test energy efficiency of smart homes
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A $5 million Department of Energy project will measure whether high-tech tools, such as electricity monitors and smart appliances, coupled with solar panels can cut home energy use by 70 percent.Source: ...

15. Canon develops world's first 120 megapixel APS-H CMOS sensor
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... continuous shooting. This follows a 50 million pixel sensor of similar format the company developed in 2007.Source: News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)  ...

16. Wireshark reigns among the sea of network sniffers
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... Gerald Combs and worked on by hundreds of contributing developers, this tool has been the go-to soldier in the trenches for tens of millions of network troubleshooters and the envy of almost every other ...

17. Nimbula raises $15 million more for private cloud
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Start-up founded by ex-Amazon developers raises big money to bring their private-cloud software to market.Source: CNET News.com

18. Study: 56 million have played social-network game
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NPD Group estimates more than 56 million in the U.S. have played a game on a social-networking site over the past three months.Source: CNET News.com  ...

19. Open source .Net-based content management aims for the enterprise
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... .Net, boasting 6 million downloads since launching in early 2009. This week, DotNetNuke, expanded its scope in announcing the Enterprise edition of its WCM platform. This update, Version 5.5, is the company's ...

20. Lycos is alive, acquired for $36 million
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One of the first major Web brands has been sold yet again--this time to an India-based digital marketing company.Source: CNET News.com