The City Council of Portland, Oregon unanimously approved a resolution today that directs the city government to open data to outside developers and encourages adoption of open source solutions in technology procurement. Like the creation of railroads and highways fostered economic development in the past, giving software developers access to a landscape of municipal data could be the beginning of a foundation for a new era of innovation

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City of Portland, Oregon Officially Backs Open, Structured Data

Four years after separating its PC business from its imaging and printing group, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is planning to merge them , undoing one of Mark Hurd’s first big moves as its CEO. “People familiar with the situation” tell The Wall Street Journal that the plan under consideration would combine HP’s printer and PC businesses under Todd Bradley who currently oversees only the latter. It’s not yet clear what such a move will mean for Vyomesh Joshi, who heads up HP’s Imaging and Printing Group

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HP Mulls Printer-PC Group Re-Fiorinazation [Digital Daily]

Satiety , maker of a minimally-invasive medical device that reduces obesity, has raised $25.3 million of an anticipated $33 million round of equity and rights, according to a filing with the SEC. The Palo Alto, Calif

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Satiety fills up on $25.3M for obesity treatments

The much-improved Hyper-V R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 combo smooths the bumps to Windows server virtualization, but VMware maintains the lead.

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Microsoft Hyper-V R2 Nips at VMware’s Heels

Whenever you see something compared to Lotus Notes, as Google Wave has been, you know to expect an uphill slog.

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Will Google Wave Be Another Heartbreaker?