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Apple's iPad, Oracle's plan for Sun share limelight

30.01.2010
While it seemed that all eyes were on Apple's unveiling of the long-awaited iPad this week, Oracle on the same day revealed its plans for Sun Microsystems' technology, while those at Sun braced for the merger and began their public goodbyes. We also had a flurry of financial reports this week and some Internet weirdness associated with President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address.

1. , , and : After months of rumors, speculation and fever-pitch media hype (for which we accept some responsibility), Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off the iPad tablet. While there was plenty of the customary swooning over a new Apple product to be found, the general consensus seemed to be: That's it?! We've been all excited for this?! Jobs insists that the iPad is better than a netbook, but that notion has ignited a debate.

2. : Oracle began to lay out its plans for Sun technologies and products this week. Meanwhile ...

3. and : Sun leaders, including James Gosling, the father of Java, and former Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy offered public farewells to a company they have loved.

4. : Secret talks that have been ongoing among nations aiming to craft an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) haven't seemed to draw a whole lot of attention, but for our money this is some seriously big news. Negotiators got together again this week to work on the measure in Mexico.

5. , and : At about the time that President Obama's State of the Union speech began, dozens of congressional Web sites were hacked. U.S. House of Representatives leaders, predictably given their fondness for holding hearings, called for an investigation into the site defacements. Meanwhile, in an even freakier bit of related news, Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, gave a response to the speech via Facebook. His was not the official GOP response. For those who have forgotten, Wilson was the congressman who yelled out "you lie" during President Obama's speech on the now-stalled health-care reform.