EU Gives Oracle Extra Time to Respond to Sun Inquiry (PC World)
PC World - Oracle and Sun Microsystems have been granted an extra week to defend their planned US$7 billion merger in front of European regulators, the European Commission said Friday.Earlier this month the Commission, Europe's top antitrust regulator, issued formal objections to the deal, arguing that it posed a threat to competition in the market for database software.The deadline for a final ruling has been put back to Jan. 27 from Jan. 19, which amounts to six additional working days for Oracle to win over the skeptical regulator. "Oracle requested the extension in order to have the opportunity to further develop its arguments in response to the Commission's concerns," the Commission said in a routine weekly statement on the status of ongoing merger investigations.The Commission's concerns center on Oracle acquiring MySQL, an open source database developed in Europe and bought by Sun a year ago for $1 billion. It argued in its statement of objections that the acquisition of the most significant open source database on the market by Oracle, the proprietary database market leader, could harm competition.
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Why Chrome OS will fail -- big time (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few bogus screenshot galleries), I can finally say that I've seen the future ... and it's not Chrome OS.
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Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans (Reuters)
Reuters - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform.
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Foxconn to Build JIL Handset for China Mobile (PC World)
PC World - Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn will make a handset for China Mobile next year that supports software developed by the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) joint venture, according to the head of China Mobile.JIL is a joint venture established by China Mobile, Vodafone, Verizon Wireless and Softbank Mobile to develop software and services for their 1.1 billion mobile phone customers.
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Google says PC will start in seven seconds or less (Reuters)
Reuters - New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.
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Former CEO of Bricsnet indicted for embezzlement (AP)
AP - The former head of San Francisco software company is being held without bail after a federal grand jury indicted him on embezzlement charges.
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SkillSoft 3Q profit up 63 percent; raises outlook (AP)
AP - Education software company SkillSoft PLC said Thursday its third-quarter net income rose 63 percent as lower costs offset a decrease in revenue, and it raised its outlook for the rest of the year.
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Google-powered netbooks to debut next year (AFP)
AFP - Google on Thursday provided a peek beneath the hood of its new Chrome operating system, making the software public and promising it will run netbooks by the end of next year.
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Auto-Updating Chrome OS Will Focus on Security (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google sketched out more details Thursday about its Chrome operating system, which is slated to become available before the end of next year. Google said the project's initial target is to get Chrome OS up and running on the computing devices that depend most on Internet connectivity.
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Benioff Trumpets Force.com Platform's Success (PC World)
PC World - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.
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Google's Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays (AP)
AP - Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster.
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Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed (PC World)
PC World - Google opened its doors to the press Thursday to show off its hotly anticipated Chrome operating system for the first time.
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Google Goes for Speed, Security in Chrome OS (PC World)
PC World - Google released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community on Thursday and said it has designed the netbook OS to be faster, simpler and more secure than existing ones.
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Microsoft says Windows 7 sales strong (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system.
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Indian Eye Hospital Uses iPhone for Remote Diagnostics (PC World)
PC World - An Indian eye hospital is piloting software that will push to doctors' iPhones retinal images collected from patients in remote locations.
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11 Things You Need to Know About Google's Chrome OS (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The world's number one search provider has opened its operating system project up to the world. Here's what it's all about.
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Google Releases Chrome OS Code (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google on Thursday released the code for its upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season.
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Google's Chrome May Shift the OS Landscape (PC World)
PC World - Google is hosting an event today to offer the first official glimpse at the Chrome operating system. Chrome has ignited enthusiasm in an operating system market that has been largely stagnant for years. Google may succeed in shaking things up a bit.
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Five Best Features in the Office 2010 Beta (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft has unleashed the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010. The Office 2010 beta includes updated versions of Word, excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace, and Communicator. You can download it right now from the Microsoft Office 2010 beta site.
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Microsoft shows off Silverlight 4's feature list at PDC (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft revealed on Wednesday ambitious plans for the next version of its Silverlight browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications, including faster startup times and software development improvements as well as more capabilities for running applications outside of a browser.
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