PC Magazine - Wal-Mart Stores has shut down "The Hub," its attempt to cash in on the craze for social networking with a MySpace-like clone.

TechWeb - IBM, BEA introduce SOA development and management tools to help business expand deployments

Reuters - IBM and supercomputer-maker Cray Inc. are being awarded a total of nearly $500 million by a Pentagon research agency for a supercomputer project, and Cray shares rose 31 percent on Wednesday.