Siebel plans to donate the money to Stanford’s law school for the study of legal ethics.

Siebel told the Associated Press that he hopes that the public apology will teach attorneys not to fabricate claims in hopes of extracting a large settlement.

Siebel founded business software maker Siebel Systems in the early 1990s. He was chairman [...]

Summer may be a time for fireworks and barbecues in America, but halfway across the globe there’s some serious bicycling under way. To celebrate the Tour de France as well as the recent inclusion of Street View in France proper, Google has created a custom Street View map for tracking the entire race route at [...]

Poll Authority isn’t quite as advanced with handling media as some other tools I’ve seen. For instance Polls Boutique, which I looked at back in April lets you drop in a video for each question whereas Poll Authority only allows for one. I think most people will be more than okay with this, but it’s [...]

Facebook’s
iPhone application has been updated to version 2.1, the company reported Friday. The social network says the update improves the app’s stability and has corrected inaccurate time stamps for time zones around the world.

After the layoffs are complete, iMergent’s will have a total staff count of 250, but its CEO, Steve Mihaylo, did say [...]

What’s more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that data even after it provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET News that the company plans to store about 2 percent of that data–and plans to store it along with the Internet Protocol address of the computer that typed it.

So much [...]

I wrote previously that a more-likely scenario than the death of the console is one in which the console can play games of all types, including those that are browser-based or require a download installation.

Console developers would be well served to figure out more monetization methods in order to avoid falling prey to PC [...]

The extension only works in
Firefox 3 but joins a previously existing offering that displays most of the same information from a drop down command menu. The newer version has a much more svelte look that can be toggled to exist off-screen with a click of a button.
One thing that’s missing, and something I hope gets [...]

The company also took the opportunity to put in a plug for congressional renewal of the solar energy tax credit, which is set to expire at the end of the year. Applied Materials said that an eight-year extension of the tax credit would create 1.2 million job opportunities and stimulate more than $200 billion in [...]