Though Dell’s Profit Slips, Its Outlook Turns Brighter

Dell’s chief financial officer said the company was seeing an “improvement in underlying demand trends” in a number of areas.

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Oracle Blinks [Digital Daily]

The European Union’s formal objection to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun has evidently transformed the database giant’s intransigency into a grudging agreeability. The EU has extended the deadline or approval of the $7.4 billion merger to January 27 from January 19 at Oracle’s request.

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Advertising: The Jonas Brothers Promote Xbox 360

The band said it had been approached by many companies, but it wanted to endorse family-friendly brands.

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The Apple Tablet Is Delayed? So What? [Digital Daily]

Apple has reportedly decided to postpone the launch of its rumored tablet/slate until the second half of 2010. That’s the latest rumor from the occasionally reliable Digitimes, which claims that the device’s original March 2010 debut target became untenable after some component changes. The report, should it prove true, will no doubt be a disappointment to overanxious tabletites awaiting the mysterious device’s arrival, but really, that’s immaterial to Apple.

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Google Offers Peek at Operating System, a Potential Challenge to Windows

Computers using Chrome, which uses “cloud computing,” will not arrive for a year, but it is already seen as a potential challenger to Microsoft.

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Forget the Fangs. It’s Spam That Should Really Scare ‘Twilight’ Fans. [Voices]

Fans of “Twilight” and “New Moon” already have plenty to be scared about – vampires, werewolves, a swirling debate over the feminist values of Stephenie Meyer’s hit series.

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IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time [Voices]

Scientists at IBM’s Almaden research center have built the biggest artificial brain ever—a cell-by-cell simulation of the human visual cortex: 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses.

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AOL to Cut One-Third of Its Staff

AOL said on Thursday that about 2,500 jobs will be lost after it is spun off from Time Warner next month.

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Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified? [Voices]

Saying the host site was serving malware to users, Google has removed a controversial photo of First Lady Michelle Obama from Google Image Search.

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Consumers: We Don’t Absolutely Hate Mobile Ads [MediaMemo]

Here’s your half-empty/half-full stat for the day: Four in 10 consumers don’t want to see ads on their phones. Is that good or bad for nascent mobile ad business?

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Google to Add Captions, Improving YouTube Videos

The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.

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Hey, Hey, Hey, Twitter! Here’s the Real “What’s Happening!” [BoomTown]

BoomTown was intrigued when Mind-Your-Own Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, penned a blog post yesterday about the microblogging service changing its prompting question.

Now, above the little Twitter box, it reads, “What’s Happening?” and not the original tweet query “What are you doing?”

While the blogosphere covered as if it were a moment of monumental meaning, most were ignorant that the true beacon of innovative What’s-Happeningness does not reside in Silicon Valley.

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Can Adobe and Apple Play Nicely When–And If–The Tablet Shows Up? [MediaMemo]

Adobe is preparing to put magazines on Apple’s purported wondertablet. But what if that device, like Apple’s iPhone, doesn’t want to work with Adobe?

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Microsoft, Nielsen Track Xbox Live Ads [Voices]

These days, videogame platform makers often boast that they are also entertainment hubs.

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How to Party Hearty But Still Live a Facebook-Clean Life [Voices]

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

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Is Local the New Social Now? [Voices]

Several reports from the US make the point: local is the new buzzword in the land of web entrepreneurship.

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