According to SFGate.com, “Oracle, the second-largest software maker, is entering the hardware market for the first time, teaming with Hewlett-Packard on a pair of new storage server products.  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Wednesday to unveil the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server, which will help the Redwood City company expand into the growing market of data warehousing. The server, which HP will produce, also will work with another joint hardware product called the HP Oracle Database Machine, an optimized hardware pack that will combine the Exadata Storage Servers with database computers running Oracle’s software.”

In a different article, SFGate reveals that “

[s]tarting today, visitors to MySpace.com will be able to listen for free to millions of songs, including those that make up the catalogs of the four largest record labels in the world.  The service, known as MySpace Music, comes as the embattled music industry looks for ad-supported streams of revenue to make up for declining sales of traditional music media like CDs and albums.”

The Seattle Times reports that “Yahoo launched a much-anticipated upgrade to its online advertising system Wednesday as it tries to bring to graphical display ads some of the innovations that powered Google’s rapid rise in search marketing.  Playing to Yahoo’s strengths in display ads and technology targeting pitches to users’ interests, the new ‘Apt from Yahoo’ platform will initially involve just the newspaper companies in a 2-year-old consortium led by Yahoo. Many of the papers joined that effort hoping for relief from the decline in their industry.”

MSNBC has an interesting article discussing whether Apple is “killing competition in its App store.”

The Los Angeles Times writes that “Qualcomm Inc. lost two of three claims in a patent infringement ruling involving competitor Broadcom Corp., including a bid to lift a ban on the QChat push-to-talk technology Qualcomm licenses to Sprint Nextel Corp.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision that Qualcomm had infringed a Broadcom patent on the technology. It affirmed an infringement finding on another Broadcom patent for a method used to allow mobile phones to operate on multiple wireless networks.”