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• O's righty Cabrera dealing with forearm stiffness
• Tigers option P Lambert to Toledo, recall INF Larish
• Padres option righties Banks, Corey to minors
• Mets put catcher Castro on DL, make roster moves
• Dodgers recall DeWitt from Triple-A Las Vegas
• Cubs blank Bucs, finish sweep
• BoSox trade for Braves center fielder Kotsay
• Pirates' Hansen optioned, Chavez called up
• Cubs skipper Piniella not fan of new replay system
• Tigers' Rogers blames Yanks as reason for instant replay
• MLB's retro rewind brings us forward to era of replay
• Umps can use replay of HR calls, starting Thursday
• Snakes on a different plane since Dunn's arrival
• Power Rankings: Umps dump dose of dumb in bad week
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Orioles right-hander Daniel Cabrera is feeling discomfort in his forearm, and although an MRI showed no damage, Baltimore manager Dave Trembley is considering moving back the struggling pitcher in the starting rotation.

 
 
The Detroit Tigers optioned right-handed pitcher Chris Lambert to Toledo and recalled infielder Jeff Larish from the Triple-A team Wednesday.

 
 
The San Diego Padres optioned rookie right-handed pitcher Josh Banks and right-handed pitcher Bryan Corey to Triple-A Portland on Wednesday.

 
 
The New York Mets placed catcher Ramon Castro on the 15-day disabled list because of a quadriceps injury and made four other moves Wednesday.

 
 
The slumping Los Angeles Dodgers recalled infielder Blake DeWitt from Triple-A Las Vegas on Wednesday, making room on their 25-man roster by designating infielder Pablo Ozuna for assignment.

 
 
Jason Marquis shut down Pittsburgh's batters, and the Chicago Cubs turned two well-placed bunts into two runs in the seventh inning and swept yet another three-game series from the Pirates with a 2-0 victory Wednesday.

 
 
The Boston Red Sox have outfield depth after completing a trade with the Atlanta Braves for center fielder Mark Kotsay.

 
 
Right-hander Craig Hansen, struggling with his control since being traded to Pittsburgh last month, was optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis on Wednesday.

 
 
Chicago Cubs manager Lou Piniella sounds ready to throw in the towel on baseball's new instant replay system before it starts. At least he'd like to toss out a red handkerchief, like his counterparts in the NFL do.

 
 
Kenny Rogers thinks the New York Yankees caused Major League Baseball to start allowing umpires to consult instant replay on home run calls.

 
 
New retro ballparks make instant replay necessary, and now that it's here, we should celebrate. In a game that is slow to change, this adaptation should be commended, Scott Miller says. Even the purists will relent someday.

 
 
Major League Baseball has reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.

 
 
The Dodgers' trade for Manny Ramirez generated headlines, but rival Arizona's deal for Adam Dunn is generating runs. The D-Backs rave about having a slugger who also draws walks, Scott Miller says.

 
 
You're excused if you were distracted by everything else last week -- and probably better off for it. Larry Dobrow is still reeling from an awfully dumb week in baseball.

 
 
• Microsoft Receives $21M Feedback Payback
• Web Entrepreneurs Offer Qik Some Wealth and Some Wisdom
• Will Congress Squelch Behavioral Marketing?
• Dell Takes Aim at Emerging Markets With Simplified PCs
• The Bid for International Cyber Property Rights
• Will Consumers Swallow a Greener Apple?
• Salesforce Shows It's Mortal After All
• Broadcom's Samueli Apologizes for Fibbing to SEC
• Scope of Best Western Customer Data Breach Open to Debate
• Internet Explorer 8's Privacy Controls Worry Advertisers
• Photoshop Tries to Win Over the Web 2.0 Crowd
• Application Maintenance: Controlling Complexity Creep
• RightNow Continues Move to Web 2.0
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Microsoft will receive nearly $21 million from Immersion, a company that develops "tactile-feedback" technology, after the two companies agreed to settle a lawsuit. San Jose, Calif.-based Immersion has developed tactile feedback technology which makes video game controllers vibrate when there is an explosion or some other game action event on screen, Sid Parakh, an equity analyst with McAdams Wright Ragen, told the E-Commerce Times.
 
 
Qik, a company that has developed live video streaming services for certain smartphones, has received a boost in its financial backing from Netscape veterans Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The duo, which have made a "significant investment" in the company, are also joining Qik's board of advisors. Bhaskar Roy, cofounder of Qik, declined to tell the E-Commerce Times how much Andreessen and Horowitz have invested in the company. Qik means to use the investment to expand its customer base to every mobile phone type.
 
 
Congress has become increasingly interested in the privacy implications of behavioral marketing. This summer, the Senate has held hearings, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has followed the charge by seeking more information from Internet service providers and technology companies regarding their privacy policies and targeted advertising. These developments have led commentators to anticipate omnibus privacy legislation from Congress related to behavioral advertising in the short term.
 
 
Dell is going after emerging markets with a new line of low-cost computers. The Vostro notebooks and desktops are the company's first models targeted specifically at China, India and a handful of other Asian, African and Latin American nations. The systems will sell for about the equivalent of $440 to $475. The move marks a distinct shift in strategy for Dell, which has previously focused on building standard products that stay constant from country to country. The change follows similar steps by competitors such as HP and IBM, which are pushing low-cost models of their own.
 
 
Who would like to bid the highest amount for the exclusive global rights to the new domain suffix, .dubai, under ICANN's latest policy? Such a suffix will create a powerful domain root that will corner some 180 services underneath it, like go.dubai, hotel.dubai, job.dubai, cars.dubai or fly.dubai. Who would be the next global cyber-branding leader of this new millennium? Are auctions the right methods to sell such mega marketing channels? ICANN, the Internet authority, is looking into auctioning off such popular name identities.
 
 
Greenpeace certainly ranks as the highest-profile environmental group to take on Apple, the hip kid on the computer block. The organization is not Apple's only environmental adversary, though, and certainly not it's only worry in a marketplace rife with green claims and green concerns. In fact, the company has moved its "Environment" page up to the top-level navigation of its Web site, right alongside its "Hot News" and "Job Opportunities" pages.
 
 
In a slow news week, Salesforce.com had no trouble attracting our attention with a $31.5 million acquisition of InStranet. The skinny on this company is that InStranet enables customers to build knowledge bases for service and support applications. It was an area where Salesforce was relatively light, and the addition will strengthen the overall offering when it comes online sometime next year. The big news here is that InStranet is a conventional application, and many tongues were wagging just after the announcement about how perhaps "the end of software" had been somewhat delayed.
 
 
Broadcom cofounder Henry Samueli has apologized for lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission during its probe of stock options backdating at the chip maker. Samueli's two-page written apology, filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, stands as the first public comment on the case by the billionaire philanthropist and owner of the NHL's Anaheim Ducks. Samueli is scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 8 on a felony count of lying to the regulatory agency.
 
 
Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it? Or was the incident a significantly more minor affair, affecting only 10 customers at the one facility, as claimed by Best Western International? The Phoenix-based hotel chain and the Sunday Herald newspaper of Scotland are duking it out over the paper's story on the data breach. Best Western calls the article "grossly unsubstantiated" and "largely erroneous."
 
 
Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 8 will offer a new set of privacy features designed to give users more control over personal information, the company has revealed. The "InPrivate" feature will build in options for turning off history and cookie collection and will also allow users to see what external sites could access that data -- and then disable them from doing so. The move is drawing mixed reactions: While privacy advocates are cheering the easily implemented controls, advertisers are expressing concern the feature could create a roadblock to effective online ads.
 
 
What should photo imaging software giant Adobe be focusing on in a Web 2.0 world? Judging from some new products, it's not just taking on the likes of Apple's iPhoto and Aperture; it's learning to work and play well with social networks like Facebook and digital media storage Web sites such as Flickr. Those could be the chief takeaways from Adobe's announcement this week that it will be releasing Photoshop Elements 7 in late September, along with the imminent launch of Photoshop.com, a photo upload/storage site, and a beta version of a mobile software product.
 
 
Application portfolios automate the operations of every organization. Business processes from core banking to claims processing have become indistinguishable from the applications that execute them. As a result, it is essential that these applications align with the business strategies and goals of the organization. A bank may launch an exotic finance product. Its loan processing applications must be able to adapt quickly to support the new initiative. This could be by extending functionality, integrating with other systems or perhaps by adjusting the behavior of business processes.
 
 
With the release of its August '08 version, RightNow Technologies continues to shift both its platform and its lineup of products and features to Web 2.0. This latest upgrade includes a customer portal that offers widgets, video, forums and blogs. Its studio development environment now allows users to integrate the application with Adobe Dreamweaver. August '08 also has more collaboration tools, such as co-browsing and chat. These features build upon developments RightNow introduced in May '08 -- specifically, the addition of chat functionality.
 
 
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