1. Ellison to HP board: Don’t be pathetic (CBR Rolling Blog)
Even as a reeling HP installs a presumably temp CEO to steer it out of the choppy waters caused by the resignation of its former leader Mark Hurd, colourful IT leader Larry Ellison has weighed in and accused the blue-ship’s board of, well, cowardice.
2. HP board surprised Hurd didn’t go quietly (WSJ)
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s board got caught off guard by the public relations campaign waged on behalf of its ousted chief executive, Mark Hurd, to defend his reputation in the wake of his departure. HP’s directors "hoped he would move on," said one person familiar with the situation, adding that the board prefers to focus on "protecting the brand and taking the higher ground."
3. Facebook has one in six UK page views, but is it reaching saturation point? (Paid Content)
Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK: in July it accounted for 7.14% of all UK Internet visits and over half (54.48%) of all visits to a social networking websites. However, with 26m British users already, when will it start to reach saturation point?
4. Rupert Murdoch fights to take the ‘sky’ out of ‘Skype’ (The Telegraph)
BSkyB is trying to prevent Skype, the internet phone company, from continuing to use its name because the first three letters spell "sky".
5. When to use open source in a cloudy world (GigaOm)
In a rapidly-changing development environment in which more and more companies are developing platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, is the allure of using open source to build custom applications diminishing? After all, PaaS providers are looking to make customisation easier for end users to achieve without having to delve into the source code.
