CIT Group falls off S&P 500 index (AP)
AP - Standard & Poor's is replacing the struggling CIT Group Inc. with software maker Red Hat Inc. in the S&P 500 index.
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Googleأ¢آ€آ™s Chrome OS May Fail Even as It Changes Computing Forever (PC World)
PC World - Google says it is working on an operating system designed for netbooks that boots in seconds, is impervious to viruses, and is designed to run Web-based applications really well. What's not to like? Plenty--if you're the number one software maker, Microsoft. Expect a showdown. Google faces an uphill battle rolling out its operating system, Chrome OS. The irony is, Google may not care if Chrome OS succeeds or fails. Here's why.
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HP Beefs Up Scaled Storage with IBRIX Acquisition (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In a move to bolster its enterprise storage offerings, Hewlett-Packard on Friday announced an agreement to acquire IBRIX. The privately-owned company offers enterprise-class file-serving software that includes data protection, high-availability features, and data-management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and high-performance computing.
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Office 2010, the True Cost of a Smartphone, and a Real-World Phone Battle on PC World Podcast 36 (PC World)
PC World - This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Tim Moynihan, Darren Gladstone, Ed Albro, and Mark Sullivan discuss the new features in Microsoft Office 2010 and ponder the whereabouts of Clippy. Will the new, Web-centric Office tools give Google Docs a run for the money? Can the updated office suite make spreadsheets even more exciting? And what about the universally-loved Ribbon? Find out now.
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VLC Video Player's New DVD-Copying Feature Could Run Afoul of the MPAA (PC World)
PC World - The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN.
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Symbian Horizon Will Help Developers Create Apps (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The steward of the Symbian operating system used on nearly half the world's smartphones has outlined how it intends to foster the development of mobile applications for the platform.
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HTC Issues Hotfix for Bluetooth Vulnerability in Smartphones (PC World)
PC World - HTC released a software update on Thursday that fixes a Bluetooth vulnerability disclosed earlier this week by a Spanish security researcher.
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US Video Game Sales Sink in June, Biggest Drop in 9 Years (PC World)
PC World - Sales of video game hardware and software were down by around one-third in June compared to the same month last year, according to data released late Thursday. After initially showing positive growth as the U.S. slid into recession, the latest figures mark the fourth month of declines and the largest year-on-year decline in almost 9 years.
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IBM hikes full-year outlook, shares shine (Reuters)
Reuters - IBM sharply raised its full-year earnings forecast as it benefits from focusing more on higher-margin businesses in software and services, sending its shares up as much as 3 percent.
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U.S. video game sales post largest decline since 2000 (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. sales of video game equipment and software fell 31 percent to $1.17 billion in June, research group NPD said on Thursday, the largest decline since 2000.
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Sun shareholders approve $7.4B Oracle deal (AP)
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc.'s shareholders have approved the $7.4 billion sale of the struggling company to business software maker Oracle Corp.
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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 Sacrifices Office to Save Windows (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft recently announced that its next Office suite will have a free online counterpart. It also just released Silverlight 3.0, which competes directly with Adobe Flash. While each of these products is competitive in its own right, theyأ¢آ€آ™re collectively part of a strategy by Microsoft to protect the future of Windows.
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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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Dell Favors Moblin Over Chrome OS, For Now (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Dell appears to be leaning toward Moblin as its next-generation operating system for netbooks, rather than Google's Chrome OS, Android, or even Windows 7.
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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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