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A few years ago, in 2007 to be exact, New York City officials set about reimagining the NYC taxi system from the ground up. The Taxi of Tomorrow project would eventually include new infrastructure and a new vehicle: the Nissan NV200 light commercial vehicle, which will be the next New York City taxicab for 10 years, beginning in 2013.

Taxi owners, drivers, passengers, and NYC residents will be able to kick the tires of the NV200 and smell (or, rather, not smell) the odor- and germ-reducing interior materials. Passengers may dig the rear seat's charging station that includes a … Read more

Oracle is involved in a number of legal battles at the moment--most notably with Google and Hewlett-Packard, among others--but a ruling yesterday is shaking everything up.

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton is rejecting a $1.3 billion award that a jury offered to Oracle months ago in its corporate theft trial against SAP. That decision can be read online on SAP's Web site (PDF).

Here's a copy of the new ruling:

Oracle Sap New Trial

Oracle originally argued that SAP's subsidiary TomorrowNow wrongfully and illegally downloaded millions of Oracle files.

The reversal is not to say … Read more

Do It (Tomorrow) is a visually stunning, yet minimal to-do list app that makes it easy to plan out arguably the two most important days on the calendar: today and tomorrow. By giving you only enough room to plot your next 48 hours, the app helps you focus on your most pressing tasks at hand.

Essentially a vertically oriented two-page notebook, Do It (Tomorrow) has one page for Today and another for Tomorrow. A simple swipe left or right moves you between the two pages, and with a single tap you can add tasks. You can move tasks up or … Read more

SAP's fourth-quarter profit was hurt by a hefty payment to Oracle over the TomorrowNow lawsuit, but the software company's operations showed improvement.

The enterprise applications giant reported fourth-quarter earnings of 437 million euros ($596 million) on revenue of 4.06 billion euros, up 27 percent from a year ago. The company delivered software revenue of 1.51 billion euros, up 35 percent from a year ago. Software and software-related service revenue was 3.27 billion euros, up 27 percent. For 2010, SAP reported earnings of 1.82 billion euros on revenue of 12.46 billion euros.

However, those … Read more

OAKLAND, Calif.--Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stand today at his company's TomorrowNow trial versus SAP and was pressed to quantify how many customers were lost to his archrival over third-party support.

Oracle is seeking damages of $1 billion from SAP over infringement by its now defunct TomorrowNow unit, which offered third-party support for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards software. SAP has admitted guilt and the trial in U.S. District Court for Northern California is designed to pinpoint damages.

Ellison was trying to paint a picture that Oracle would lose 20 percent to 30 percent of its … Read more

SAP is altering its tactics in the Oracle-TomorrowNow lawsuit in a move to speed up the trial, which starts Monday, and prevent Larry Ellison & Co. from orchestrating "a media circus" designed to "use weeks of trial to harass its competitors, whether they are party to the case or not."

It's pretty clear that Oracle is issuing statements (here, here, and here) to take aim at Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker, formerly CEO of SAP.

To head off Oracle's bluster, SAP said in a letter it won't contest allegations that it contributed to copyright … Read more

Still getting used to his new job, HP's new CEO, Leo Apotheker, may testify in a trial between former employer SAP and rival Oracle, a development that has also ignited a war of words in The New York Times.

Apotheker, who was appointed chief executive of Hewlett-Packard on September 30 to replace the embattled Mark Hurd, appears on witness lists shared between the legal representatives for Oracle and SAP, according to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required).

The two companies have been battling each other in court for more than three years over a lawsuit in which Oracle has … Read more

The results and fighting from this past weekend's Carfax 250 wasn't the only NASCAR-related news in the last few days. It's not a secret that many NASCAR drivers aren't happy with the modifications made to NASCAR vehicles, often referred to as the "Car of Today" (which is sometimes abbreviated as CoT). As recently as this last Friday, famed driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. addressed NASCAR sanctioning officials pleading for further development of the so-called "CoT" as a suggestion to improve the sport in terms of drivers' use and how the drivers compete. Despite … Read more

Intel's "rock star" ads will try to show that Intel is more than just microprocessors--a theme of its broader ad campaign to launch on Monday.

One of the first Internet-based ads focuses on Ajay Bhatt, an Intel Fellow who was one of the principal engineers behind the development of USB, a crucial Intel technology used in virtually all PCs today. (Intel engineers in the ads are personified by hired actors. "Several of the engineers we're personifying confided that acting isn't within their comfort zone," said Sandra Lopez, Intel's global consumer marketing manager … Read more