Novell to Los Angeles: Drop Dead! (PC World)
PC World - This must be a joke: A Novell corporate blog item that chastises the City of Los Angeles for recently selecting Google Apps to replace Novell's GroupWise e-mail and calendaring software.
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Intuit cuts CEO's compensation by about half (AP)
AP - Intuit Inc. gave CEO Brad Smith compensation valued at $3.6 million, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing made Friday. The compensation was about half of what he earned last year, as the financial software maker's profit took a hit in the downturn.
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Microsoft Discontinues Accounting Software (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is spiking its Office Accounting software family and will stop distributing the products as of Nov. 16, according to a posting on the company's Web site.
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Apple TV 3.0 Features Extras and Better Widescreen (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - With the Internet video-on-TV space heating up, Apple on Thursday introduced its new Apple TV 3.0 software. The update features a revamped main menu that takes better advantage of widescreen TVs and offers iTunes Extras, iTunes LP, Genius Mixes, and Internet radio.
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Apple's iTunes Update Again Blocks Palm Pre Syncing (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple and Palm continue to play a cat-and-mouse game, and this time it was Apple's turn to do the chasing. Apple on Thursday released an iTunes software update that once again blocks the Palm Pre smartphone from syncing DRM-free music, photos and videos from the iTunes Store.
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Google Navigation Doesn't Spell Doom for GPS Makers (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Wednesday's launch of Google Maps Navigation for the search giant's Android mobile platform caused the stock prices of personal-navigation device makers to spiral downward. Clearly, investors fear that Google's free mobile service, which delivers real-time turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic routing, will hurt the long-term financial performance of rival hardware and software vendors.
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CDC Software sees 3Q profit above expectations (AP)
AP - Business software developer CDC Software Corp. said Friday it expects its earnings to surpass Wall Street's expectations in the third quarter.
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Droid: Motorola's Savior Or Google's False Profit? (PC World)
PC World - Too much, as least so early, is being made of the Motorola Droid's supposedly magical powers. Can a single handset "save" Motorola, launch a new operating system, and smite the evil Steve Jobs?
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Palm Lost the iTunes Sync Battle (Again) (PC World)
PC World - The release of the iTunes 9.0.2 update on Thursday yet again disables Palm's workaround to sync with Apple's popular jukebox software. Perhaps it's high time Palm moved on and created its own software.
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Google Maps Navigation: Free and Easy (PC World)
PC World - An impressive feature of Google's new Android 2.0 mobile device operating system is Google Maps Navigation, a turn-by-turn navigation application that's not only free to use, but is fairly easy to learn as well.
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Automated Tiering Key to Getting Value From SSDs (PC World)
PC World - Though flash storage could be the most powerful tool yet for IT administrators who want to speed up access to frequently used data, reaping its benefits may require automation software that has just begun to emerge from the major storage vendors.
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Cloud computing: Simply SaaS renamed? (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Is cloud computing just a renaming of SaaS (software as a service) in today's buzzword-prone IT landscape? After all, both involve accessing applications over the Internet, with those applications generally residing on third-party servers.
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Phase Forward posts 3rd-quarter profit decline (AP)
AP - Phase Forward Inc., a provider of data management software for drug safety and clinical trials, reported its third-quarter profit sank nearly 50 percent, but still handily beat Wall Street's forecast.
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Earnings roundup: Callaway Golf, BMC Software (AP)
AP - Among the earnings stories for Thursday, Oct. 29, from AP Financial News:
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McAfee revenue misses forecast, shares fall (Reuters)
Reuters - McAfee Inc , the No. 2 U.S. security software maker, reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street projections as sales to consumers grew at their slowest rate in almost two years.
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BMC Software posts 35 percent jump in 2Q earnings (AP)
AP - BMC Software Inc. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter earnings jumped 35 percent, as falling expenses offset a slight decline in sales.
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Juniper Outlines a 'New Network' for the Next Decade (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In its latest competitive move against Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks unveiled new software, silicon, systems and partnerships that aim to propel a "new network" for enterprise and service-provider customers. Juniper made a slew of announcements Thursday at a launch event at the New York Stock Exchange on the Internet's 40th birthday.
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Microsoft Warns Against Misuse of Windows 7 Upgrades (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has a bit of advice for people using the Windows 7 operating system introduced earlier this month: Follow the law. In a blog posting at the Microsoft SMB Community Blog, Eric Ligman of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group wrote that a number of blogs and postings are offering hacks that enable the use of a less-expensive upgrade disk for a new Windows 7 installation.
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Motorola on the Rebound With Droid and Cliq (PC World)
PC World - There has been a lot of media attention around the Verizon Droid and whether or not it's a viable competitor the formidable Apple iPhone. There has even been a fair amount of coverage regarding the Google Android 2.0 operating system that drives the Droid. The unsung supporting actor behind the Droid though is Motorola, and Motorola's path to recovery is possibly the bigger story.
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Five Things You Should Know About Windows 7 Security (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft says Windows 7 is the most secure version of the Windows operating system ever developed. Big deal, right? I am pretty sure that Microsoft has made that claim for every new version of Microsoft Windows in the past 15 years, and that it is a valid claim.
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