JDA Software to buy i2 for about $434 million (AP)
AP - JDA Software Group Inc., which makes inventory management software for retailers, said Thursday it has agreed to buy rival i2 Technologies Inc. for about $434 million.
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Microsoft CEO: Windows 7 Japan sales 'fantastic' (AP)
AP - Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
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Vendors Scrambling to Fix Bug in Net's Security (PC World)
PC World - Software makers around the world are scrambling to fix a serious bug in the technology used to transfer information securely on the Internet.
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Microsoft, Yahoo Partnership Could Reach Beyond the US (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's deal with Yahoo under which the software maker's new Bing search engine will be used to power Yahoo searches and Yahoo will sell premium advertising for both companies could be expanded overseas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
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Windows 7 Seeing 'fantastic' Sales in Japan, Says Ballmer (PC World)
PC World - Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, were "fantastic" in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
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Apache readies Tomcat Java servlet container upgrade (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, eyeing improvements in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel said on Wednesday afternoon.
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Smith Micro Software posts profit but cuts outlook (AP)
AP - Smith Micro Software Inc. said Wednesday it turned a profit in the third quarter but cut its 2009 revenue estimate, sending shares tumbling nearly 20 percent in aftermarket trading.
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T-Mobile Pins Outages on Software Glitch (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On Wednesday, T-Mobile said it had discovered the root cause of the outages on Tuesday: a software glitch. But some users also said that their services had not been restored.
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Microsoft cuts 800 jobs, completes reduction plan early (AFP)
AFP - US computer software giant Microsoft said Wednesday it is cutting 800 more jobs in addition to 5,000 layoffs announced previously.
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New Software Detects Bots Scraping Web Site Data (PC World)
PC World - Web sites such as job boards face a persistent problem: their data is constantly pilfered by automated bots.
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Microsoft, Taiwan to set up cloud computing centre (AFP)
AFP - US software giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of Internet computing technology.
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Microsoft Says Windows 7 Doing Well So Far (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system has been doing well in the market since it launched nearly two weeks ago, Microsoft executives said Wednesday.
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Adobe Fixes More Bugs in Shockwave Player (PC World)
PC World - Adobe Systems has issued an update for five vulnerabilities in its Shockwave Player, which is installed on some 450 million PCs.
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Application whitelisting review: McAfee Application Control (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - McAfee Application Control 5.0 (due out Dec. 15) is the result of McAfee's acquisition of Solidcore and the integration of Solidcore S3 Control with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). McAfee Application Control rivals SignaCert for the broadest client support among all the products in InfoWorld's review. It also boasts write protection and ownership protection of whitelisted files, good reporting and alerting, and no significant cons.
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Test Center review: Whitelisting security offers salvation (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Whitelisting security has always taken a backseat to blacklisting approaches. After all, when there is far more good software running on computers and networks than bad software, it's just easier to block the bad than to approve all the good. But that was then, and this is now.
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Microsoft to set up cloud research center in Taiwan (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research center on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.
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Huawei Promises Series of Android Phones (PC World)
PC World - China-based Huawei Technologies will release multiple mobile phones using Google's Android operating system in coming months, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Microsoft redesigns MSN, adds Twitter, Facebook (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.
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PayPal courts outside developers (AFP)
AFP - PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service.
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XP's End Means Enterprises Will Move To Windows 7 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - To upgrade or not to upgrade? Enterprises may not have the choice they did between Windows Vista and Windows XP, when many opted to continue with XP rather than switch to Vista.
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