5. : Oracle made news outside of the courtroom with another huge acquisition, scooping up e-commerce vendor Art Technology Group.

6. : Google's latest Street View miscue occurred in Germany, where images of homes were clearly visible rather than blurred. Granted, only five homes in Oberstaufen were visible briefly before the images were blurred, but the incident indicates that the company has not yet got the kinks worked out of its Street View service, despite all of the problems the service has caused.

7. : Wasting no time under Apotheker's leadership, HP rolled out a companywide initiative aimed at taking the complexity out of IT and making the company more responsive to customers. Perhaps his "disappearance" is because he's out, you know, responding to customers?

8. : Well, we've long suspected that some 4G claims were nothing more than marketing hype.

9. : Google expanded its bounty program, inviting researchers to sniff around in various of its applications, including YouTube, to look for vulnerabilities.