Windows 7 Tops Vista's Rollout as Patch Tuesday Looms (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Score one for Windows 7. The initial sales of the latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system surpassed Vista's performance during its first few days on the U.S. market, according to the NPD Group.
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Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war (AFP)
AFP - A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google.
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Windows 7 debut a hit: NPD (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft's new-generation Windows 7 operating system hit the ground running, with US sales in its opening days blasting past those of its Vista predecessor, according to NPD Group.
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Are Heavy Discounts Behind Window 7's Success? (PC World)
PC World - The early sales numbers for Windows 7 are indeed impressive. According to market researcher NPD Group, U.S. sales of Windows 7 boxed software were a whopping 234 percent higher than Vista's first several days of sales. And as my colleague Brennon Slattery pointed out earlier today, a mixture of media hype and mostly upbeat Windows 7 reviews are working in Microsoft's favor.
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Microsoft Will Eliminate 800 More Jobs Worldwide (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Software giant Microsoft said Thursday it will cut 800 positions worldwide. The latest round is part of Microsoft's previously announced move to eliminate 5,000 jobs or five percent of its workforce.
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IBM Announces Cloud Software-development Betas (PC World)
PC World - IBM on Thursday announced beta versions of new services aimed at developers who want to create and deploy applications on public and private clouds.
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Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns (AFP)
AFP - Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."
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Microsoft Rivals, Trade Groups Want Browser Offer Changed (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's antitrust settlement offer to the European Commission needs minor, often cosmetic changes in order to restore fair competition to the market for Internet browsers, said some of the software giant's main rivals Thursday.
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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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NPD: Vista Launch Sold More PCs than Windows 7 (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft managed to move more standalone Windows 7 software units in its first week of sales than it did with Vista, but Windows 7-based PC sales were not as high as they were with Vista, according to Thursday data from the NPD Group.
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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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