Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Oracle’s Ellison nails cloud computing  —  Finally, a technology executive willing to tell the truth about cloud computing.  Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison said that the computer industry is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion and cloud computing is simply the latest fashion.

Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Wall Street’s Blowup Shrinks The Tech Market By Billions.  Could Be Worse  —  The Wall Street collapse is terrible for tech, obviously.  But it could be worse.  —  Forrester Research says the financial sector’s troubled firms (Lehman, Merrill, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie, Freddie) all together equal about 2% of […]

Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz:
UMG Plans Online Music Video Portal  —  Universal Music Group is in the planning stages of establishing its own online music video portal—similar to NBC’s Hulu video streaming site, Billboard.biz has learned.  —  According to sources with knowledge of UMG’s plans, the service would host …

Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Larry Ellison’s Brilliant Anti-Cloud Computing Rant  —  Maybe Larry Ellison can do what the Business Technology Blog can’t.  —  Earlier this week, we wrote that the term “cloud computing” now seems to apply to just about anything even loosely associated with the Internet, making it effectively meaningless.

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge  —  Microsoft is quietly readying a plan to make a purchase of the combined Yahoo-AOL, should Yahoo pull off its plans to acquire the struggling America Online unit, according to sources close to AOL — via the menage-a-trois with AOL.

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
FeedBurner May Not Be Hearing Your Pings  —  Blogging is a fast medium, that’s one of its advantages over traditional media.  There are bloggers who specialize in reporting fast about breaking news on a wide variety of topics.  Most of those bloggers use Google’s RSS publishing technology FeedBurner …

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Analyst: Fundamentals are deteriorating at Yahoo  —  An analyst trimmed revenue estimates for Yahoo this morning, noting some of the factors that seems to be bringing the company down with no relief in sight.  Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal said in a research note that he believes Yahoo … […]

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Yahoo: Collins Stewart Says Fundamentals “Deteriorating”  —  More trouble lurks ahead for Yahoo (YHOO), Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Agrawal warned this morning.  —  “We believe that the fundamentals at YHOO are deteriorating,” he writes in a research note.

Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The RIAA’s Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Ownership  —  Mathew Ingram covers the details of Muxtape’s run-in with the RIAA.  As you may recall, last month the rather useful site that let people create online “mix tapes” that could be streamed to others was shut down thanks to the […]

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Where Is Microsoft’s Smartphone?  Everywhere, Says Redmond  —  The smartphone wars are set for this holiday season: Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 3G versus new BlackBerry gadgets from Research In Motion (RIMM), and now Google’s ‘G1’ Android GPhone.  Oh — and dozens of gadgets running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile.