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Jul 29 2008 9:20am EDT

First Bytes: Alcatel-Lucent, Knol, Oracle, Verizon, Microhoogle

--  Alcatel-Lucent, the giant telceom supplier, said its chairman, Serge Tchuruk, and chief executive officer, Patricia F. Russo, are both stepping down. The company's $1.7 billion loss may have had something to do with that. [NYT]

-- Oracle has charged that executives at rival SAP knew the company stole trade secrets from Oracle. Sweet -- celebrity enterprise tech face-off, in hight court! Oh, wait. [WSJ]

-- So does Knol, Google's supposed Wikipedia-killer, make Google a content company? Retired blogger Jason Calacanis comes out of retirement to say so. Nice trick! [SAI]

-- Verizon is launching its Fios broadband service in New York. Are you a candidate? [NYP]

-- Jack Flack says somebody was lying in the Microsoft-Yahoo squabble. No way. [Portfolio.com]

-Sam Gustin. □

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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