CDC adopts new, near real-time flu tracking system
The Centers for Disease Control will track potential outbreaks of the H1N1 flu using a private, nationwide GE Healthcare database that holds electronic medical records for 14 million people. Read more...

Oracle plans aggressive fight with EU over Sun takeover

Aster adds 'data application server' in Version 4.0

Many open-sourcers back an Oracle takeover of MySQL

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EU chides Oracle over probe of Sun deal

EU chides Oracle over probe of Sun deal

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MySQL cofounder says Oracle should sell database

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ComicBase Free
For years, ComicBase had only an expensive, professional version of their comic book database and collection manager. Recently, they moved into the free space with ComicBase Free, offering a full-featured, but also stripped-down, free version.

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MIQS, winner of the 2009 Computerworld Honors award for business, combined electronic medical records with a real-time reporting engine that allows doctors to track trends in a patient's medical history.

Microsoft and EU settle, phishing scams, busts
Capping our list of top IT news stories this week, Microsoft and the European Commission reached accord on the ongoing antitrust case against the company. While this will free up some room in future top-news lists, we expect that we'll continue to have no end of bad news related to phishing scams, of which there was plenty this week as well. Thankfully, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison added some levity to the mix, though his brand of joking undoubtedly fell flat at Salesforce.com.

iPhone 3GS heats up, DOJ takes aim at Google
The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.

iPhone 3.0, Win 7 in the EU, flu pandemic
Just as expected, Apple showed off its next iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference, but even though we knew that news was coming it still tops the list this week because, honestly, how could it not? OK, so there could be one or two other IT-related stories that would knock that one from the lead, but not so far this week. The European Commission gave it a go, though, with word that Microsoft's obvious attempt to circumvent the Commission's antitrust case will not, in fact, succeed. Or not just yet anyway.

Zeno Stash: Tote Your Text on a Portable Drive
Zeno Stash is a throwback to the days when programs didn't have a feature list a mile long. Stash is a very simple--but still useful--text management tool. It easily fits on a tiny flash USB drive; requires no installation, DLLs, or registry access; and provides a very useful service. It creates a database of text data, each entry consisting of a short title (100 characters) and up to 32K of text. Titles are arranged on the left side, you read the text on the right. No fonts, no styles, no inline graphics, no tables. Just text.

MySpace figures out how to do massive data analysis on commodity systems

CVS creates order, and savings, by integrating a chaotic acquisition

Johnson Controls uses metrics to transform its business

Revlon creates a global IT network using "Mini Me" datacenters

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