Man Made $112,000 in Bank Account Hacking Scheme (PC World)
PC World - A Hampton, New Hampshire, man has pleaded guilty to fraud charges for his role in a scheme to empty brokerage accounts by installing malicious Trojan horse software on victims' computers.
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Apple's next iPhone crop must fight off more pests (AP)
AP - When Apple Inc. launched an updated iPhone at its annual gathering of software developers last June, its biggest competitor was the iPhone that Apple had introduced the year before.
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AP: Compuware CEO Karmanos compensation dips (AP)
AP - Mainframe software maker Compuware Corp.'s chief executive, Peter Karmanos Jr., was awarded compensation for fiscal 2009 valued at $4.2 million, down 29 percent from a year earlier, according to an Association Press calculation.
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Pulling Windows XP Gets Microsoft in Russian Hot Water (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft faces charges of breaking antimonopoly laws in Russia. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation initiated a case against the software behemoth alleging that Microsoft violated Russian law when it took its Windows XP operating system off new PCs and the boxed versions off store shelves.
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IBM trades legal suits with Philippine govt agency (AFP)
AFP - The local unit of US computer giant IBM has filed a libel suit against a Philippine government agency after being accused of selling it faulty software, court records showed Friday.
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Vendors Look for Piece of Stimulus Cash With New BI Apps (PC World)
PC World - The Obama administration's demand that government officials closely track and report how US$787 billion in economic stimulus money is being spent was not lost on major software vendors such as SAP and IBM, which have quickly rolled out BI tools that are supposed to help meet the mandate. Smaller vendors, such as Actuate, have released similar applications as well.
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Google Chrome for Mac: Hands on (PC World)
PC World - The Google Chrome team is delivering on its promises to deliver Mac users a native version of the company's browser. A developer version of Chrome for both Mac and Linux users was released last night, but Google doesn't want you to download the software.
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Microsoft Faces Russian Antimonopoly Hearing (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft may have violated Russia's antimonopoly laws for withdrawing Windows XP from the market last year, the country's Federal Antimonopoly Service said Thursday.
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Hands-On: BlackBerry Storm .148 Update (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Verizon Wireless and RIM have finally updated the BlackBerry Storm's software to make last year's buggiest smartphone more stable, solid, and usable.
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Microsoft's Ozzie airs cloud views, backs Windows-based netbooks (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, detailed Microsoft's embrace of cloud computing Thursday and also endorsed the concept of netbooks -- provided they run Intel x86 processors and Windows.
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Adobe Will Deliver Its First Quarterly Patches Next Tuesday (PC World)
PC World - Adobe Systems will deliver its first set of quarterly patches next Tuesday as the company seeks to improve how it responds to security vulnerabilities in its widely used products.
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Chinese Company Shows Windows XP Phone (PC World)
PC World - A Chinese company showed what it calls the world's first mobile phone to run Windows XP at the Computex exhibition in Taipei on Friday.
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Freescale Chips Power Android Smartphones, MIDs (PC World)
PC World - Freescale Semiconductor displayed a number of devices containing its chips at Computex Taipei 2009 this year, including an e-book reader made by an Asustek Computer subsidiary, and a smartphone and two handheld computers with Google's Android software on board.
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Microsoft exec sees lower margins from "cloud" (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services -- broadly known as cloud computing -- would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company's existing software business.
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Japanese software regulator bans rape "games" (AFP)
AFP - A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females, a spokesman said.
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Report: Steve Jobs Returning to Work This Month (PC World)
PC World - Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on track to return from medical leave this month, and there is even speculation that he may be present at the company's annual software developers' conference next week at San Francisco, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, quoting people familiar with the matter.
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Intel, an infrequent acquirer, snaps up Wind River (AP)
AP - Intel Corp. is biting off its biggest acquisition in nearly a decade with an $884 million takeover of Wind River Systems Inc., a software maker with a colorful past.
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Boxee for Windows Alpha Coming June 23 (PC World)
PC World - The alpha test version of Boxee's online multimedia software for Windows PCs will be released to the public on June 23, Boxee founder Avner Ronen said Thursday.
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Intel Acquires Wind River Systems for $884 Million (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Intel is spreading its software wings with the $884 million acquisition of Wind River Systems, which develops operating systems, middleware and software design tools for a variety of embedded computing systems. Intel said the company will become part of its strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server markets and into embedded systems and mobile devices.
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Intel buying Wind River Systems for $884 mln (AFP)
AFP - Intel said Thursday that it has agreed to buy software maker Wind River Systems for 884 million dollars in a bid by the US semiconductor giant to get its chips into more devices.
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