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This looks like a plausible scenario to me
NCR spun out Teradata two years after Hurd left to become president and CEO at HP in 2005. This was perhaps a very stupid thing to do, but it made some shareholders and investment bankers some quick cash — just like Oracle buying up Teradata might do to give the software giant some real credibility in data warehousing.
Who better to manage a Teradata acquisition than Hurd? No one else on earth.
"I believe Oracle’s strategy of combining software with hardware will enable Oracle to beat IBM in both enterprise servers and storage," said Hurd in the statement Oracle put out announcing… Continue reading: What does the Hurd mentality bring to Oracle? • The Register
Check the link below for more context-setting. One possible solution to this dilemma: HP could try to hire Charles Phillips as its new CEO, at least providing a comparable level of insight into Oracle’s strategy and operations… but Oracle probably has a clear contract precluding that scenario.
The HP board should have been able to get an agreement that he wouldn’t work for a competitor when they paid him off. As their lawsuit mentions use of confidential information and not breaking any agreement to work for a competitor, it’s apparent that the settlement agreement with Mark Hurd didn’t specify this. As it is, HP has launched a belated lawsuit which mentions the use of confidential HP… Continue reading: Has HP blundered big time? • The Register
 So, there’s been some interesting analysis done by folks over at University of Washington and University of California San Diego about security attacks against the firmware in modern automobiles.
I came by it by way of HelpNet (so thanks to them), but I recommend that you go directly to the original paper to get the real meat on this thing.
The deal is that they are able to attack (in many cases wirelessly) the automobile to do all kinds of crazy crap; I won’t steal their thunder, check out what they say about it in their paper:
We demonstrate that an attacker who is able to infiltrate virtually… Continue reading: Oh what a feeling to Pwn! (What’s next, auto malware?)
A timely Android market dynamics reality check; see the link below for some Streak OS upgrade nightmares
The problem may be Dell’s, but it’s born of Android’s aspirations and Google’s overconfidence. Supporting an OS running on a range of different hardware is really tough – work in hardware design for long enough and one gains a grudging respect for Microsoft Windows and its ability to integrate with just about any chunk of hardware. Linux still strives for the same thing with immeasurable resources at its disposal.
With every new Android device the supported hardware base grows. Combine that with Google’s determination to release a new OS every six months, and you’re creating a… Continue reading: Dell Streak causes user fury • The Register
See the link below for more details
Does the "F" in Facebook stand for an "F" in school? A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students who don’t have the social networking site in visual range, or even running in the background on their computers or mobile phones.
The study, reported in the Daily Mail of Britain, was done by Netherlands psychologist Paul A. Kirschnera of the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies at the Open University of the Netherlands, and Aryn C. Karpinskib of Ohio State University. It will be published in the… Continue reading: Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percent, study says – Technology & science – Tech and gadgets – Back to School – msnbc.com
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