NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oracle Corp offered its new president, Mark Hurd, former head of Hewlett-Packard Co, a salary of $950,000 and a bonus of up to $10 million for fiscal 2011, plus stock options.

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A rare and highly valuable Sammy Marks Tickey coin is currently being offered on the local online marketplace and auction site, bidorbuy.co.za

The starting bid for the 1898 ZAR Sammy Marks Golden Tickey coin is R1.5 million. There is no reserve, which means that the starting bid is the minimum that the seller would be ready to accept.

The Sammy Marks Tickey always attracts a lot of attention from collectors. [Read more →]

Gartner has identified 10 major forces that are actively reshaping the future of IT services and the outsourcing market.

Buyers, providers and investors in the IT services market confront the same confluence of market and technological forces, even though their approaches and core concerns may differ, said Benjamin Pring, research vice president at Gartner. These forces are radically reshaping the fundamentals of how providers deliver and sell IT services and how buyers consume them. [Read more →]

In the Men’s Health Best Men 2010 Awards – announced recently at a high-profile ceremony in Johannesburg – Kobus Meiring was selected as the winner in the Visionary category, for his role in the creation of South Africa’s first electric vehicle, Joule.

As the CEO of Optimal Energy, the company responsible for the development and production of Joule, Meiring has demonstrated tremendous vision, courage and leadership in an undertaking that many have described as foolish.

Microsoft rolls out “big guns” for Tech-Ed 2010

Sun, sea — and a hall filled with 2 500 technology geeks. That was the deal clincher for Microsoft’s chief technology officer (CTO) of Worldwide Services, Norm Judah, who has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at this year’s edition of Tech-Ed Africa 2010 in Durban.

Tech-Ed Africa 2010 is Microsoft’s premier event for IT professionals and developers, and runs from 17-20 October at Durban’s iconic International Conference Centre (ICC). [Read more →]

Dell said Tuesday that it plans to stop offering Windows XP as a preloaded OS option beginning this month. [Read more →]

Scientists from Stellenbosch University in the Western Cape have developed and patented an inexpensive and effective filtering device that could provide safe drinking water to millions of people. This innovation can considerably reduce the prevalence of water-borne illnesses such as cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co sued former Chief Executive Mark Hurd and asked a court to block him from joining Oracle Corp, saying his hiring by the rival technology firm puts HP’s trade secrets “in peril.”

BERLIN (Reuters) – Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp investors cheered the surprise hiring of former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Mark Hurd on Tuesday, sending the business software company’s stock up sharply after the latest twist in a juicy drama that has captivated Silicon Valley.

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s biggest mobile fair will host its first event for Apple developers next year in a sign of Apple’s huge influence over the industry, even though the company itself has never participated in the show.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is looking into allegations that Google Inc’s purchase of airline ticketing firm ITA Software Inc will cost rivals access to data they need to compete with the search giant as it moves into the travel market, sources familiar with the probe said.

TAIPEI/SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics, the world’s top memory chipmaker, warned of an oversupply in the computer memory chip market from next quarter as a sputtering global economy may further weaken PC sales.

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp said it would sell a factory in Spain making liquid crystal display TVs as part of its push to outsource more production and turn its struggling TV operations into a profit driver.

The joke is on Nicolas Sarkozy – not that he’s likely to find it very funny. [Read more →]