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Ed Bradley, Veteran CBS Newsman, Dies - New York TimesEd Bradley, an anchor on CBS’s 60 Minutes, died today after suffering from leukemia, CBS News reported. He was 65.

With the number of Blacks in broadcast Journalism a precious few, this accomplished mans presence will be missed. But He left a body of work, and a legacy for all of us to follow, and a work in in telling us about ourselves that should be continued. RIP Ed Bradley. Please take the time to read his biographies that may be found at CBS News, Wikipedia, and I am sure other places around the Internet.

Sun Set To Move On GPL License For Open-Source Java - Sun Microsystems, General Public License, Software - CRN
The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and GlassFish reference implementation (currently open-sourced under Sun’s Common Development and Distribution License, or CDDL) to follow, several industry sources said.

I really am waiting on baited breath for this. Once it goes GPL I can find have NATIVE Java on my FreeBSD box at home without out having to jump through a lot of hoops to to install it.

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NTP: A Taste of Its Own Medicine
Oren Tavory, a 43-year-old software developer living in West Palm Beach, Fla., says he got there first. Tavory says he did much of the work developing the technology behind NTP’s patents. And since NTP has spun those patents into a big payday with hopes of another, Savory says he deserves part of the credit for the patents, and some of the payouts, too.In September, Tavory filed a lawsuit against NTP in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., demanding that a judge issue a court order naming him as co-inventor on seven NTP patents, and accusing NTP of copyright infringement and unjust enrichment.

Goodbye quarterly reports? | CNET News.com
The top accounting firms, including Deloitte Touche Tohumatsu, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and KMPG, joined forces to release a report on Wednesday that proposes a real-time reporting system to allow people to access and choose business information as easily as buying a book on Amazon.com.

Interesting idea. A feed of business information. Knowing on today what a company earned on yesterday. It would give companies less chance to cook the books, if an Enron style operation was going on, but the devil is in the details. Whether something like this is possible, and practical always depends on implementation.