Oracle buys GoldenGate

Oracle is buying GoldenGate Software, a San Francisco-based maker of data integration tools, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is expected to close later this year, states PC World.

GoldenGate's technology helps companies pull together data in real-time from a variety of sources for analysis. Major players in data integration include Informatica and IBM.

With the GoldenGate acquisition, Oracle will bolster its existing data-integration portfolio, which includes tools gained from its 2006 acquisition of Sunopsis.

PayPal, eBay's well-established but aging mechanism for online payments, is trying to rebuild itself for a new generation of online commerce possibilities, according to CNET News.

At an event for press and developers, PayPal and its partners described several new programming interfaces that are part of the company's upcoming Adaptive Payments Service and showed what developers can do with them.

For example, Microsoft will use the interface to enable payments within its forthcoming Azure cloud-computing service.

Two researchers from Hewlett-Packard have developed a browser-based darknet that allows users to share files and communicate anonymously, eWeek reports.

Once users visit the URL, they automatically join the darknet and with settings such as Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate browsing, there would be no sign that the person had visited the site.

Wood, senior security researcher with HP's Web Security Research Group, acknowledged darknets can be misused, but argued that darknets can be used for legitimate purposes as well, such as anonymous whistle-blowing.