RIM opens software store for BlackBerry (Reuters)
Reuters - Research In Motion has launched an online store selling entertainment, games, news, and travel applications to its BlackBerry users.
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Computer experts brace for "Conficker" worm (Reuters)
Reuters - A malicious software program that has infected millions of computers could enter a more menacing phase on Wednesday, from an outright attack to a quiet mutation that would further its spread.
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April Fools! Opera's Face Browsing, Google's Social Network AI Creature (PC World)
PC World - While cruising through my InBox looking for CTIA news, I ran across a news release from Opera Software, scrappy Norwegian purveyors of browsers, announcing the introduction of technolog for face-gesture controlled Web browsing. That sounds newsworthy, I thought--for about 10 seconds.
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HP Confirms Considering Android in Netbooks (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard confirmed Tuesday that it is testing Google's Android operating system as a possible alternative to Windows in some of its netbook computers.
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HP says pondering Google's Android (Reuters)
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co is studying uses for Google Inc's Android operating system, but the world's top PC maker stopped short of saying it had decided to adopt the fledgling software in its products.
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HP exploring using Android software in computers (AFP)
AFP - Leading US computer maker Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it is studying the possibility of building machines based on Google-backed Android operating systems.
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IBM to enter "cloud computing" software market (Reuters)
Reuters - IBM will sell a suite of Web-based collaboration software for businesses, including contact management, instant messaging and file sharing programs, the computing giant's biggest effort to date to sell software as a service.
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HP considering Android for netbooks: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard may use Google's Android operating system in some of its netbooks, displacing Microsoft's Windows, according to a media report on Tuesday.
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Report: HP May Offer Android in Netbooks Over Windows (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard is considering offering an operating system platform developed by Google in its netbooks at the expense of Microsoft's Windows OS, according to a published report Tuesday.
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HP unwraps Cloud Assure (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday detailed new services and software that it claims can help businesses turn to the cloud, namely by boosting security, performance, and availability.
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Facebook APIs Get Official Flash Support from Adobe (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Facebook is about to get Flash-ier as the result of a joint effort announced Tuesday by Adobe Systems and the popular social-networking site. The companies said the newly available Flash ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for the Facebook Platform, a free and open-source programming library, will support all Facebook application programming interfaces, including APIs for the growing network of sites that back Facebook Connect.
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Microsoft to shutter encyclopedia Encarta (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s digital encyclopedia, Encarta, might have pushed its printed competitors off the shelves in some homes. Now Encarta itself has fallen victim to changes in technology, made all but obsolete by the likes of Web search and Wikipedia.
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Three Reasons Why Microsoft's App Store Will Thrive (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's plans for its mobile application store just may change the way consumers look at apps and the Windows Mobile operating system.
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Fake Security Software Scammers Jump on Conficker (PC World)
PC World - Google's search rankings are being stuffed with links to fake security software that purports to remove Conficker, a widespread worm that's currently the Internet's number one security threat, but doesn't.
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Microsoft unveils partners for applications store (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp has signed up multiple software partners for its upcoming cellphone software marketplace, including Web music service Pandora, game publisher Electronic Arts Inc and social site Facebook.
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Microsoft to Shut Down Encarta Web Sites (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is shutting down its Encarta encyclopedia Web sites and will also discontinue its Student and Premium Encarta software products.
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TomTom to pay Microsoft to end patent fight (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, on Monday said it settled a patent dispute over car navigation technology with TomTom NV for an undisclosed amount.
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Microsoft says TomTom settles patent suit (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft on Monday said Netherlands-based vehicle navigation systems firm TomTom had agreed to a friendly settlement of claims it infringed on the software giant's patented technology.
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Microsoft and TomTom settle patent fight (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp and Dutch navigation device maker TomTom NV said on Monday they had reached a settlement after more than a year of squabbling over software patents.
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Skype comes to iPhones on Tuesday (AFP)
AFP - Skype has confirmed that a free software application enabling iPhone owners to use its Internet telephone service will be available in Apple's online App Store beginning Tuesday.
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