Nand Mulchandani, who headed VMware's security group, is the latest executive to leave the virtualization vendor after the July ouster of its CEO, although Mulchandani says there's no connection.

They pulled out all the stops at Oracle Open World last week to unveil a whole lot of advanced and interesting business technology. It was the 30th anniversary show, but the emphasis was clearly about the future -- not the past. There was lots that was not CRM related -- though from my provincial perspective I can barely understand why -- and I will leave it to the rest of the world to figure that out.

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Yes, this is the man they call Triforce, the guy who's been here in Times Square for an excruciating 9 days, on and off. "They kicked me off the line like 5 times, saying you can't be on this block." But my friends, Triforce persisted. "I was tired of getting skipped at other console launches. I haven't been that excited about consoles in a while, but I'm finally excited again about this one." As for what his reward will be for his superhuman patience and unbelievable acceptance of tourist crowds and the strong odors of hobo urine and Gyro carts: "I don't know what Reggie's gonna give me, but I want to share whatever it is with everyone here. I know what we're gonna do though, we're gonna take Reggie and hold him up over our heads and pass him down this line." Here's hoping that comes true. Prepare yourself for Triforce, Reggie.

After the jump, Reggie charms the TV-watching public during one of his many, many press interviews.– Adam Frucci

CNET's Tom Krazit reports:

At the Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 event in Alameda, California, on Friday, November 16, panelists from Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, and Crytek reassured the cheering attendees that all was well in the PC gaming world - even though NPD's numebers show that sales of PC gaming software in 2006 were down substantially from 2001. The panelists claimed that those numbers do not reflect the increasing number of games distributed digitally, although the Krazit notes that they sounded defensive as they discussed some of the broader issues.

Krazit discusses why gaming consoles has the PC gaming industry on the defensive these days, what the PC industry would like to try to do to get gamers interested in the PC again as a gaming platform, and how the PC gaming is becoming more of a specialized experience for only certain types of games.

Samsung and LG showed off over 50 mobile phones being readied for the launch of China's 3G network, an important step in ensuring a smooth launch of mobile services next year.

The Mexican video game industry is exploding, attracting major new marketing investment and luring global game publishers to establish local offices.

Professional underminer Mike Albo mourns the halcyon early 90s in today's Critical Shopper column. Also, the Times still hasn't caught on to the fact that he only ever makes fun of the impulse to buy or own fancy clothes: "I know it's not 1993 anymore, but some of these prices still gave me pause. Fourteen years ago these clothes would have been incomprehensible to me. If I had walked in, listening to Letters to Cleo on my portable CD player, I would have reacted like a cave man who, hurtled through time, had come across a microwave and was dumbfounded, 'Wha? $135 for T-shirt? Me no understand.'" Also: "[1993] was a carefree, de-gorgeous era, when I often wore girl's-size thermals printed with snowflakes or flowers and $3 thrift store bell-bottoms. I even knotted my hair in Bjork buns." HOT.

Designer Marc Jacobs has it all. If by "all" you mean a tattoo that says "Perfect" (almost as good as "Authenticity"), a hernia from overexercising, and two remarkably similar deeply ambivalent articles, one in the Times Thursday Styles section by Eric Wilson and one in New York Look by Amy Larocca. Lucky guy! [NYT]

How come Uncharted and Assassin?s Creed cost 60 dollars, while Super Mario Galaxy cost 50 dollars on the Wii? The first answer jumps to mind is ?lower development? cost, but what does that mean? Do you know when Konami publishes a game like MGS, they only make 1 dollar per game? Here is a breakdown of who's taking a bite out of your pocket pie this Christmas.

Eva Green trapped in a post-apocalyptic future.

Yes, America! Bernie Mac and Fox are reuniting again for a new sitcom. And because more and more shows are being shut down due to the writers strike, many insiders are surprised that the not only the deal was done, but that Fox has committed to seven episodes.

7 new shots posted.

Kevin Federline has called an emergency hearing in his custody battle with Britney Spears, amid allegations his ex-wife has failed to comply with court-ordered drug tests.

Crossing over from the proprietary dark side.

XAware, a provider of commercial data integration software, has opted for the open source route after introducing the latest version of its product (XAware 5) under the GPL v2 licence.