Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has apparently been running an underground fighting ring composed of tech industry executives. To add insult to literal injury, losers were forced to give up stock options to the winners. It seems likely that a lot of jail-time is in all of their futures.

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Google has taken a page from Microsoft's Kinect, creating a motion-based system for interacting with Gmail. In order to open a message, you make a motion like you're opening a paper message--to send one, pretend you're licking a stamp. Of course, there are as well. Really, it's quite ingenious. What will those Google folks think of next?