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Boom


Microsoft has a new twitter account in support of its Office 2010 product launch. What’s strange though, is that the people behind the account seem to care more about the future of the Zune than Office. Two tweets (of five) from this account have caught our attention. The first says, 

June 2009 will be an important month for Zune lovers.

Then as a followup to the barrage of questions received, @officethemovie adds, 

New product launch, that’s all I’m allowed to say. Hold off from buying an iPhone/Pre.

If you’re having trouble comprehending that let me get it straight for you. Zune Phone. Boom.

Forever

Its over. After 12 years of intense waiting, The game Duke Nukem Forever, the greatest vaporware of all times has been called off after the developing studio 3d Realms went down due to financial problems. Though technically, the publisher of the game, Take two, could still save the day. Here’s hoping that they do.

Exun Elite Junior Programming Qualifiers

Here are the teams who have qualified for the Junior Programming Finals:-

Team 1:
Abhishek Chandra X I
Sanchit Abrol X I

Team 2:
Raghav Gupta X M
Bharat Batra X M

*Team 3:
*Aman Agarwal X I
*Shubham Goel X D

Team 3:
Akshita Bhatnagar X M
Tanvi Umashree X M

Team 4:
Sharang Ahuja X F
Shubhorup Biswas X F

Team 5:
Dhruv Batra X M
Mayank Bhatt X M

Team 6:
Kartik Gupta X M
Rohan Singh X M

Team 7:
Pranav Aditya IX L
Barun Patra IX L

* — Non-competitive
The order of the team rankings is not indicative of the marks scored by teams.

The finals will be held from 1:00 to 3:30 on 30th April. All teams are requested to report outside the E-Gurucool Lab on 30th April at 1:00 pm.

Oracle To Buy Sun Microsystems

Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced on April 20,2009 that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt. “We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle’s non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,” said Oracle President Safra Catz.


Chuck Norris prefers a Zune over an iPod

Is this THE iPod killer?
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are looking at the Zune HD (or so the internet tells us). Going by the images, it has loads of that oomph factor but the fact remains that its specs are unknown. However likely features are a HD screen (If you have a sane IQ you have figured this out already), An accelerometer (Quite evident by the picture) and since there seems to be only 1 button, its likely to be a touchscreen. 
It will be intresting to know what is the kind of software inside, the price and the capacity of this thing-all of this decides if this thing turns out to be the much awaited iPod killer. According to me, this thing beats the iPod touch hands-down when it comes to looks and a HD screen will simply be a super bonus. Many iPod owners are also disgruntled with Apple’s policy of charging $10-20 for every software upgrade (Downright cheap in my opinion) and are looking for the switch. The industry might be on the threshold of a dynamic change in the PMP market.
PS: There has been much speculation over the Zune in recent days, something totally different.