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Submission + - Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man (guardian.co.uk)

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Armadni General

on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @01:14PM

Armadni General writes: "The Guardian (UK) is reporting that Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim, after a surge in profits of his America Movil mobile phone service, has overtaken Bill Gates as the world's richest man. From the article, "this is estimated to have boosted his fortune to an estimated $67.8bn (£33.6bn) — equivalent to 8% of Mexico's gross domestic product — compared with $59.2bn for the Microsoft mogul, putting him in the lead by a decisive $8.6bn.""

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SAP Admits to 'Inappropriate' Downloading of Oracle Code 149

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @12:22PM from the think-then-do-think-then-do dept.

netbuzz writes "SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann uses the undoubtedly lawyered term 'inappropriate download' to describe the company's questionable actions. Henning blames a rogue business unit, but there can be no mistaking the fact that Oracle caught SAP with its hand in the IP jar on this one. The legal proceedings that will follow should prove interesting. 'The admission hurts SAP's reputation in the battle with Larry Ellison's Oracle in the $56 billion market for software that manages tasks such as payroll. The rivalry between SAP and Oracle escalated when Oracle filed its March 22 lawsuit claiming SAP workers hacked into a Web site and stole software codes on a grand scale.'"

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Feed Engadget: Apple buys iPhone.com for seven figures (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @12:12PM

Filed under: Cellphones

It's hard to accuse Michael Kovatch of squatting the iPhone.com domain for his perpetually to-be-created internet phone company -- he snagged it way back in the halcyon days of '95 when Jobs was still estranged and the only mobile phones were Zack Morris mobile phones. Well, users visiting iphone.com will finally get sent to Apple's iPhone page, as the DomainTools Blog is reporting Apple bought it, and for a solid seven figures at that.

[Thanks, Toby]

Read - iPhone.com (see, it really forwards)
Read - iPhone.com gets bought

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Submission + - NYC man Arrested for Reciting First Amendment

Submitted by CWRUisTakingMyMoney on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @11:49AM

CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes: 'Reverend Billy' — a cross between a street-corner preacher and an Elvis impersonator (but blond) — was arrested on harassment charges last week while reciting the First Amendment through a megaphone in Manhattan's Union Square. Have we reached the point where we can't even (rather uniquely) recite from our own Constitution without being arrested or shouted down?

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