Thursday, August 20, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 20/08/2009



GameStop posts disappointing profit, cuts outlook (AP)
AP - GameStop Corp., the world's largest video game and entertainments software retailer, posted disappointing fiscal second-quarter results on Thursday and lowered its full-year earnings forecast, citing fewer hit video games and cautious consumers. Shares tumbled in morning trading.
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Synopsys posts better-than-expected 3Q results (AP)
AP - Synopsys Inc., which makes software to develop and test chips, said Wednesday its fiscal third-quarter profit declined 18 percent from a year-ago period helped by an income tax gain, but the results still beat Wall Street expectations.
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NuGrowth buying subsidiary of State Auto Financial (AP)
AP - Software sales and development company NuGrowth Solutions has inked a deal a buy a subsidiary of State Auto Financial Corp., a property and casualty insurance holding company.
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Apple Online Offer Glitch Hints at Early Snow Leopard Launch (PC World)
PC World - A mistaken offer in Apple's online store on Wednesday could signal that the company's latest Mac operating system, code-named Snow Leopard, is primed for launch as early as next week.
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Survey: App dev budgets increasing (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Despite current economic uncertainty across the globe, senior-level executives and software development professionals are seeing an increase in development budgets, according to a recent survey by software development outsourcer.
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As Exchange Grows Up, It Plays More Strategic Role (PC World)
PC World - Long an important product for Microsoft, Exchange Server going forward will play even more of a key role in the company's plan to extend its collaboration applications to mobile devices and other software platforms.
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Hands On: Windows Live Movie Maker (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft's entry-level consumer video editing software, Windows Live Movie Maker, finally exited beta today. Here's a look at what you can expect from this powerful free download.
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Mover: Longtop shares drop (AP)
AP - Shares of Chinese financial software developer Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd. dropped Wednesday morning after a narrow miss for the company on fiscal first-quarter profit.
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Garmin-Asus Launches First Windows Mobile Smartphone (PC World)
PC World - Garmin-Asus, the mobile phone joint venture between GPS device maker Garmin and electronics vendor Asustek Computer, launched its first smartphone with the Windows Mobile operating system on Wednesday in Taiwan.
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Longtop Financial's 1Q profit jumps 38 percent (AP)
AP - Chinese financial software developer Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd. said Tuesday its fiscal first-quarter profit rose nearly 38 percent on growing demand across its customer base, and boosted its revenue and profit expectations for the full fiscal year.
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Microsoft asks court to hold off on Word ban (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to allow it to keep selling Word software as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling.
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Exchange 2010 Download Problems Reported Fixed (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft acknowledged problems Tuesday morning with downloading its Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate. The software giant was working on the problem for TechNet members, and the links were reported working Tuesday afternoon.
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Bookmark Synchronization Added To Chrome 4.0 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google said it has compiled a new software library to synchronize browser data in the cloud. It also said it has developed the server infrastructure for synchronizing the data to the Google accounts of Chrome browser users.
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Nexon online videogame business defies market (AFP)

Nexon America on Tuesday said revenues at its free-to-play online videogame websites soared in July while US sales of videogame hardware and software continued to sink.(AFP/NEXON/File)AFP - Nexon America on Tuesday said revenues at its free-to-play online videogame websites soared in July while US sales of videogame hardware and software continued to sink.



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Palm plans for commercial application store launch (Reuters)
Reuters - Software developers will be able to start charging for applications downloads to Palm Inc's high-profile Pre smartphone with the company's launch of an e-commerce beta program set to start in mid-September.
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Samsung Tunes Windows Mobile for UC (PC World)
PC World - Samsung and mobile unified-communications pioneer DiVitas Networks are working to make enterprise telephony functions work better on dual-mode handsets using Microsoft Windows Mobile.
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G1 Android Phone May Be Unable to Receive Updates (PC World)
PC World - Users of the first Android phone, the G1, may be unable to get significant future operating-system updates because the phone's internal flash is nearly full.
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CDC Corp. climbs to 2Q profit, shares jump (AP)
AP - Business software company CDC Corp. on Monday reported a $3 million second-quarter profit, reversing a year-ago loss, as cost-cutting measures offset a drop in revenue.
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Moonlight 2.0 moves to beta phase (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Moonlight 2.0, which is open source software that puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, was offered up as a beta release on Monday, the chief developer of the technology said in a blog entry.
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Mass. giving transit data to software developers (AP)
AP - Massachusetts is planning to "democratize the data" behind its public transportation network.
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