Palm shares sink after Apple closes iTunes sync (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares of Palm Inc fell more than 3 percent on Thursday after Apple Inc closed a loophole in iTunes that had allowed the music management software to be synchronized with Palm's Pre phone.
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Apple Wanted PC Hunter Ads Pulled, Microsoft Says (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft says Apple tried to get its latest ad spots pulled as inaccurate. The ads depict PC hunters who find Mac computers too expensive and instead select a PC with Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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Palm Pre SDK is finally out (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The long-awaited Palm Mojo Software Development Kit, for building applications for the Palm Pre device and the webOS platform, is now generally available, a Palm blogger said on Thursday.
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Microsoft plans stores 'right next door to Apple' (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s chief operating officer says the software maker is planning to open retail stores "right next door to Apple" in the fall.
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After Bing's first month, Microsoft still No. 3 (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s redesigned search site remains a distant third to Google and Yahoo despite getting a slight boost in its first month.
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Oracle's Software Development Reins in New Hands (PC World)
PC World - Oracle's executive vice president of product development, Charles Rozwat, is taking a one-year leave of absence and his responsibilities will be assumed by Thomas Kurian, currently senior vice president of Fusion middleware.
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Open-source Adoption Faces Extra Obstacles in China (PC World)
PC World - The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.
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High-tech Israeli-Palestinian firm defies barriers (AFP)
AFP - Zvi Schreiber's new software links users across the globe, but in order to meet the Palestinian engineers who helped create it he must drive to a petrol station in the middle of the desert.
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Microsoft Customers Face License Hurdle to Online Apps (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft promoted more of its Web-based software offerings at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans this week, but some analysts say the company's enterprise licensing terms provide little incentive for large customers to move away from its on-premise products.
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'Tasks' software is Gmail Labs first graduate (AFP)
AFP - Google Labs brainchild "Tasks" graduated from the sandbox on Tuesday as the Internet giant seeks to entice computer users to switch from packaged software to programs offered online as services.
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Microsoft Office users attacked by cybercriminals (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp warned that cybercriminals have attacked users of its Office software for Windows PCs, exploiting a programing flaw that the software giant has yet to repair.
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What Me Worry? Ballmer Shrugs Off Google Chrome OS (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shrugged off Google's planned Chrome Operating System on Tuesday at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
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Microsoft vs. Google: Office Web Will Kill Google Docs (PC World)
PC World - As Google positions itself for a future of web-based operating systems and applications, a new reality is about to intervene: Microsoft Office 2010, with both web and stand-alone versions, will kill Google Docs. Long live, Office Web!
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Windows Azure Will Be a Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Service (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has taken the wraps off its business and partner models for Windows Azure -- a services platform that enables computing applications to be hosted and run at the software giant's data centers.
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Microsoft CEO laughs off Google OS challenge (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's chief executive attempted to laugh off the challenge of Google Inc's planned computer operating system on Tuesday, conceding only that it was "interesting".
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Want to Put Android on Your Netbook? Try This (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google-ites and open-source lovers may now have a project to tide them over until the release of the upcoming Chrome OS. The good folks over at the LiveAndroid project have managed to create a bootable CD running the Google Android 1.5 (Cupcake) operating system. It's pretty buggy, though, so be warned.
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Office Web Apps: Five Questions (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 is news alone, but what really excited the tech world was the announcement of a free online version of the software, called Office Web Apps. The company already offers a bundle of cloud software over Windows Live -- including mail, storage, and blogging tools -- but taking its paid software onto the free, online world is a bold move. That raises some questions:
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Windows 7: Not Done Yet, but Close (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft gave an update on Windows 7 this week, outlining a timeline for the release of the upcoming operating system to manufacturers. The company noted that you shouldn't "believe everything you read on the Internet" and proceeded to set the record straight.
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Verizon's App Store Plans Likely to Irk Phone Makers (PC World)
PC World - Verizon want to use its muscle as a major U.S. carrier to pull smart phone applications into its own online application store. To that end, Verizon is hosting a Verizon Developer Community Conference on July 28 to encourage developers to design software for the carrier's phones.
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Who Wants Windows 7? "We Do!" Users Say (PC World)
PC World - The closer you are to Windows 7, the more you like it. That's what supporters of the new operating system say. To them, reports that 60 percent of IT admins aren't planning to deploy Microsoft's newest simply don't make sense.
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