Interactive Intelligence expects 3Q growthINDIANAPOLIS — Communication software maker Interactive Intelligence Inc. said Monday that, based on preliminary results, it expects to report that third-quarter earnings rose as product and services revenue climbed.

Apple director Levinson leaves Google's boardMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. said Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from the Internet search leader's board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker Apple Inc.

Apple director Levinson leaving Google boardMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. said Monday that a board member who also serves as a director for computer maker Apple Inc. is stepping down, removing a potential conflict of interest as the two companies look to compete more directly.

Low-cost airlines all a-Twitter with customersATLANTA — A Seattle woman tweets from an airport that JetBlue's birthday present to her was forgetting to put her wheelchair on her flight. Seven minutes later, an airline official tweets back that the crew will work quickly to make things right.

Sun Microsystems and Oracle recently released Exadata V2 which is a combination of technologies from both of the companies. Essentially, the new database machine is a complete package of software, servers, storage and networking for all data management, including data warehousing, transaction processing and consolidated mixed application workloads  Software and it was mooted by Larry Elison, CEO of Oracle. The company also claims that the new machine  is 10 times to 50 times faster than the other data warehousing machine. While the servers perform heavy computing tasks, the company can store and retrieve information by using the database software.