U.S. video game sales down 7.6 pct in November: NPD (Reuters)
Reuters - Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States fell 7.6 percent in November to $2.7 billion, research group NPD said on Thursday, as the struggling industry limped into the crucial holiday sales period.
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Free Software Fanatics (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Jim Lynch wonders: Are believers in free software really zealots?
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Federal Signal buys traffic software developer (AP)
AP - Federal Signal Corp., which manufactures safety, signaling and communications equipment and fire rescue vehicles, said Thursday it has acquired Diamond Consulting Services Ltd.
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HP Patches OpenView Vulnerabilities (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard has issued a number of patches for a component in its OpenView software package. The company advises administrators to apply the patches immediately, given the severity of the vulnerabilities.
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Dell Aims Management Software, 10G Ethernet at Data Centers (PC World)
PC World - Dell added 10-Gigabit Ethernet to its EqualLogic storage line and introduced infrastructure management software in a set of product announcements Thursday to round out its data-center offerings.
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Microsoft Buys Health-care Software Company (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft plans to buy health-care software maker Sentillion for an undisclosed sum in order to expand its own health-care offerings and capitalize on an upcoming opportunity for new sales.
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SAP Launches Sustainability-tracking Application (PC World)
PC World - SAP's emerging line of green IT software got a boost Thursday with the announcement of an application that helps companies pull together data about their corporate sustainability, analyze the information and create reports.
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Games Developer Settles Software Piracy Complaint (PC World)
PC World - A Maryland gaming software developer that has worked with major game publishers and U.S. government agencies has agreed to pay US$75,000 to settle a complaint by the Business Software Alliance that it was using unlicensed copies of Adobe and Microsoft products, the BSA announced Thursday.
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Solid Oak Rewrites CyberSitter After 'Green Dam' (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Solid Oak Software on Thursday announced CyberSitter 11, which the company said has been entirely reworked to eliminate the "legacy" code that was appropriated by the Chinese "Green Dam" program.
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Reviewers: The Nook Needs Some Work (PC World)
PC World - The Nook, Barnes & Noble's belated e-book reader has landed in the hands of several high-profile reviewers, and most are not exactly thrilled with the device. Reaction ranges from calling it "a mess" to complaints about sluggish software and half-baked features.
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Taiwanese Operator Forecasts Strong Asian Demand for Android (PC World)
PC World - The popularity of Google's mobile operating system, Android, will continue to grow next year with as many as 30 new handsets from Taiwanese manufacturers, and more app contests by mobile network operators throughout Asia, a mobile network executive said Thursday.
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Acer Plans up to 6 New Android Handsets for First Half 2010 (PC World)
PC World - Acer plans to launch as many as six new smartphones with Google's Android mobile operating system in the first half of next year, a company executive said Thursday.
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Kansas revises Cerner, Wizards incentive package (AP)
AP - Officials with medical software maker Cerner Corp. declined to comment Wednesday on a revised $230 million incentive package offered by Kansas to lure the company across the state line.
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SAP Planning to Open up On-demand Development Platform (PC World)
PC World - SAP is hoping to build a platform of third-party SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications to complement its own emerging wave of offerings.
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Ahead of the Bell: CA upgraded on new technologies (AP)
AP - A Deutsche Bank analyst upgraded CA Inc. Wednesday, saying the business software company is poised to benefit from opportunities in the new technologies of virtualization and cloud computing.
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MedAssets 2010 profit forecast misses estimates (AP)
AP - Hospital software company MedAssets Inc. on Wednesday forecast a profit in 2010 that was beneath Wall Street expectations, although its revenue forecast was on par with estimates.
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Gadfly Boxee Takes Aim at Your Cable-TV Box (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - What could be cooler than surfing the Web and watching your big-screen TV at the same time? Getting rid of your cable box, perhaps. The folks who brought you the free Boxee software that transfers streaming video, music and other media from a computer to a TV announced upgraded features this week and debuted the first piece of hardware: A little black box (of course).
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Google releases Chrome browser for Macintosh computers (AFP)
AFP - Google on Tuesday released a version of its Chrome Web browser for Macintosh computers in a challenge to Safari software Apple offers users of its machines.
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End of Windows Support? It May Already Have Happened (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft has posted a reminder that support for Windows 2000 Server and client and Windows XP SP2 will end on July 13. The company is suggesting that consumers and especially organizations still using these OSes should prepare.
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Google To Allow New EtherPad Creation; Will Release EtherPad Source (PC World)
PC World - Last week was a busy one for acquisitions: Apple bought Lala, a streaming music service, and Google acquired AppJet, makers of realtime collaborative text editing software EtherPad. Google announced that the AppJet developers (many of whom previously worked for Google) would be joining the Google Wave team, improving the services offered by the new Wave product.
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