A new development in the Amazon vs. Macmillan fiasco. Amazon just posted an announcement indicating that will be “capitulating” to Macmillan by selling the publishers’ books for their desired prices.

Amazon Caves To Macmillan’s eBook Pricing Demands
 

CAIRO -- Egypt will soon reveal the results of DNA tests made on the world's most famous ancient king, the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun, to answer lingering mysteries over his lineage, the antiquities department said Sunday.

FOXNews.com - Egypt to Announce King Tut DNA Results

Publishing giant Macmillan said late Saturday that Amazon.com has pulled its e-book titles from being sold for the Kindle in a price war apparently sparked by Apple Inc.'s new iPad. (AAPL) (AMZN)

IPad price war begins: Macmillan off Kindle

Google will phase out support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 Web browser starting in March, the company said Friday.

Google to end support for IE6

Intel and Micron plan to unveil new 25-nanometer flash memory chips on Monday via their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, the first commercial chip products made using advanced 25nm manufacturing technology.

Intel and Micron first to 25nm with new flash memory chips

Informatica has purchased MDM vendor Siperian for $130 million.

Informatica Plugs MDM Hole With Siperian Buy

Just one day after the unveiling of the iPad, Apple's long-rumored tablet has ruffled feathers and turned heads. With a familiar interface, Apple's momentum, iTunes integration, and a price that the even non-geek can easily fall in love with, it has all the makings of a hit. But deep inside lies something even more revolutionary.

Apple inside: The significance of the iPad's A4 chip

You have to love DigiTimes and those loquacious sources it seems to keep finding. The latest word from the Taiwanese grapevine suggests that both Intel and AMD will be bringing out six-core CPUs to the consumer market by the middle of this year. We're using the term "consumer" rather loosely here as Intel's first Gulftown chip is expected to be priced north of $1,000. The Core i7-980X is slated for a March release, which just fits inside the Q1 window that earlier rumors had suggested. If you butter your bread on the AMD side, you'll have to wait a while longer as those 45nm Thuban chips -- herafter to be known as the Phenom II X6 1000T series -- won't be landing until at least May. The usual caution when dealing with anonymous sources is advisable, but this sounds like a roadmap with a high likelihood of being accurate.

AMD and Intel's six-core CPU plans revealed by mobo makers

Plus, few dates about the Office 2010 and next office suite seep out

Microsoft Windows 8 Info Leaked

Amazon's famously kept mum on Kindle sales figures, only commenting that they sold more Kindle ebooks than physical books during Christmas. While specific figures weren't mentioned, CEO Jeff Bezos boasted yesterday that "millions of people now own Kindles."

Amazon Claims "Millions Of People Now Own Kindles," Yet Actual Figures Still Not Known [Amazon]

With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems complete, Oracle intends togo after Microsoft's lucrative Office franchise, the company revealed yesterday.

Oracle Plans To Take on Microsoft Office

Software giant benefits from improving personal computer sales and the recent release of its flagship Windows 7 operating system.

Microsoft posts record sales as profit jumps 60%

Some companies have sales. Others let you pay next year at low interest or offer a money-back guarantee. All kinds of sales incentives are out there making business work.

Hitachi Data Systems, in a bold step to separate itself from competitors such as EMC, NetApp, HP and IBM, on Jan. 28 announced one of its own: It will now guarantee its customers a full 50 percent reduction in their storage capacity if they use the company's virtualization software.

Hitachi Guarantees 50 Percent Storage Capacity Reduction

Las Vegas, NV., January 26, 2010 -- MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 at its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The latest software release from MicroStrategy was made generally available on January 22, 2010. Work Faster with New Performance Enhancements MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 includes significant enhancements that make business intelligence faster for BI users, even at the highest scale of usage. Organizations today are faced with rapidly expanding data volumes and users, partners, and customers that need immediate data access to work more efficiently. MicroStrategy’s latest release can meet these expanding demands with even higher performance than before. “The demand for BI systems to provide faster data access is scaling at a rapid pace and requires dramatically ...

MicroStrategy announces latest release of MicroStrategy 9 at annual user conference in Las Vegas

Underwhelmed by the iPad? Don't give up on tablets just yet, says blogger Peter Smith. MSI has a tablet coming in the second half of 2010 that measures up on price and size and addresses a lot of the iPad's most noted shortcomings. 'The iPad runs iPhone OS while the MSI runs Android,' writes Smith. 'That means the MSI will multitask of course, and Flash support in Android should be a given by launch time (though that isn't certain). It has a camera. It's running on an Nvidia Tegra2 chip which Ars Technica suggests puts it on par with the iPad's A4 as far as computing horsepower. And of course Android doesn't live in a walled garden. More >>>