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Mar 15, 2012

SAP aims to become major database software maker

March 15 (Reuters) – German software maker SAP AG
(SAPG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) says it intends to become a major provider of database
software in a move that would heat up its long-running rivalry
with Oracle Corp (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research), led by Silicon Valley billionaire
Larry Ellison.

SAP said it will disclose its plans at an April 10 news
conference in downtown San Francisco, not far from Oracle’s
headquarters in Redwood City, California.

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Hacker “Sabu” was an FBI plant for months

March 6 (Reuters) – Even as he urged tens of thousands
of Twitter followers to rise up and attack government and law
enforcement, the most wanted hacker on the planet was working
for the FBI.

New Yorker Hector Xavier Monsegur, 28, was exposed on
Tuesday as the person behind Sabu, the colorful leader of Lulz
Security, a much-feared and talented offshoot of the
cyber-activist group Anonymous.

Mar 5, 2012
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      "Jim has worked as a technology correspondent in the Reuters Boston bureau since 2005, covering cyber security, software, hardware and related areas. He previously covered technology, media and biotechnology for Broadcasting & Cable, the Orange County Register and Bloomberg News out Tokyo, Taipei, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California."
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