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Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecommunications company is in violation of a number of Oracle's patents, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he always wore the same distinctive sweatshirt when making the illegal withdrawals.

Gnostic Concepts, one of the leading market research and consulting firms of its time, merged its communications and computer practices in 1984 in advance of what it perceived to be the joining of both fields into a unified communications/messaging paradigm. While that was a wise move in many ways, the only problem is that they were about 20 years too early.

We've been hearing a lot lately about how communications technology reduces productivity and makes people stupider - mainly by interrupting people too often, in too many ways. Some studies have gone so far as to quantify the decline in productivity (25% to 30%) due to multitasking. These researchers imply that we'd all be better off turning off our phones, shutting down instant messaging and e-mail, and logging out of Facebook, MySpace and Linked-In. I think they're nuts.