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The gadget-less Bond–Despite the vaguely technical title, the latest James Bond installment, Quantum of Solace, is almost completely devoid of gadgets.

New ‘Halo’-esque look for Korea’s troops–Korean Agency for Defense Development is designing battle uniforms for the “future combatant” that include bulletproof helmets and automatic temperature control.

Why hasn’t Oracle bought anyone (or everyone) yet?–Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was happy to buy the planet when priced at a premium, but now that there are Blue Light specials on every aisle…? Nothing.

The key factor isn’t who occupies the CEO’s office. But with Jerry Yang set to step down, a source says, “Microsoft is open to a mutually beneficial search deal.”

The one bright spot in WebXchange’s lawsuit against Microsoft’s customers is that open source is not involved.

Company goes live with CloudFront, which promises to work closely with its popular S3 service, with “low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.”

Online discovery site, which competes with Digg, Reddit, and Mixx, snags Funny Or Die, Atom, Scientific American, and 5min.com for its partner program.

Company’s $41-a-month Online Meeting service enables businesses to customize a virtual world for conducting meetings with presentations, IM, and Skype conversation.

Jerry Yang shepherded a colossal decline in Yahoo shareholder value (and may be hurting his open-source assets in the process).

Plus: Nortel earnings sink…Lenovo revenue plunges…Time Warner performance is flat…Pioneer predicts greater loss.

Korean Agency for Defense Development is designing battle uniforms for the “future combatant” that include bulletproof helmets and automatic temperature control.

Revenues of the PC maker hit $33.6 billion, with adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share. That’s “another solid quarter,” CEO Mark Hurd says, as it digests EDS.