Monday, January 4, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 04/01/2010



Nuance Buys Spinvox to Expand Voice-to-text Services (PC World)
PC World - Voice recognition software company Nuance Communications on Wednesday acquired voice-to-text services company Spinvox for $102.5 million.
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Software firm buys building, expands in Mass. (AP)
AP - MathWorks Inc. has purchased an office building in Natick for $30.8 million, part of an expansion that could create hundreds of new jobs at the engineering software firm.
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Xbox Live Headed to Windows Mobile Devices? (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft may be bringing Xbox LIVE to Windows Mobile devices perhaps as early as the launch of Windows Mobile 7 expected late 2010, according to recent job postings on Microsoft's site. The software giant is looking for a program manager and software tester to join the LIVE team, and both positions would be focused on integrating Xbox LIVE with Windows Mobile. The positions were first uncovered by Mobile Techworld.
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Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee (AFP)

The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed on a computer screen. AFP - Social networks will face increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks in 2010 but law enforcement is expected to make strides in fighting cybercrime, according to Web security firm McAfee Labs.



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2010: The year of the Mac? (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - It's almost a pathetic assertion: This year, the Mac will break out of its ghetto and become a mainstream computer for individuals and businesses alike. That unfulfilled desire is foretold every year and has been since the mid-1980s, when Apple's then-groundbreaking computer was quickly sidelined by the IBM PC and, later, Microsoft Windows.
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Adobe to be Prime Target for Malware in 2010 (PC World)
PC World - 2009 is drawing to a close, and 2010 is almost upon us. The Chinese calendar says 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, but a report released from McAfee claims it could be the year of Adobe malware.
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Google plans Android event in January (AFP)

A view of the headquarters of the internet search engine company Google in Mountain View, California. Google announced plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system amid speculation the Internet giant plans to release its own smartphone.(AFP/File/Nicholas Kamm)AFP - Google announced plans on Tuesday to hold a press event next month about its Android mobile phone operating system amid speculation the Internet giant plans to release its own smartphone.



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Adobe Will Be Top Target for Hackers in 2010, Report Says (PC World)
PC World - Adobe Systems' Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted this week.
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SS&C Technologies to raise $300 million in IPO (AP)
AP - Software maker SS&C Technologies Inc. plans to raise up to $300 million in an initial public offering, according to a filing made late Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Microsoft pegs China search market as top priority (Reuters)

The Microsoft logo hangs from a window during the grand opening of Microsoft's first retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona October 22, 2009. REUTERS/Joshua LottReuters - China is a vital market for Microsoft's Web search business, as it chases leaders Baidu Inc and Google in the world's biggest Internet market, the world's largest software maker said.



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New Versions of Firefox Browser Delayed (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Mozilla is pushing back deadlines for new versions of Firefox, calculating that taking a little more time to deliver new software will be worth the risk.
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Actuate shares up, analyst upbeat on Xenos buyout (AP)
AP - Business software maker Actuate Corp. jumped Monday after an analyst said Actuate's takeover of Xenos Group Inc., another software company, should help it turn around declining revenue.
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Former Comverse execs to pay $62M to settle suits (AP)
AP - Former executives of Comverse Technology Inc. will pay $62 million to partially fund a class action settlement stemming from alleged stock option backdating. Most of the money will come from the voicemail software maker's former CEO, who fled the country to avoid prosecution in the backdating scheme.
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Radware boosts 4Q outlook; shares hit 2-year high (AP)
AP - Radware Ltd., which makes network management software, on Monday lifted its fourth-quarter financial guidance, sending shares climbing in morning trading.
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Genuitec looks to battle IBM Jazz with ALM product rollout (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Genuitec released earlier this month version 3.0 of its Pulse software lifecycle management product and is suggesting it as a possible enterprise-level replacement for IBM's Jazz application lifecycle management technologies.
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Google's Nexus One Phone Could Be a 'Droid Killer' (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Just a few weeks ago Motorola's Droid, available exclusively on Verizon Wireless, was raising the public's awareness of Google's Android mobile operating system. Now Google is preparing to release its own branded handset, the Nexus One.
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Microsoft Posts OEM Word Patch To Remove XML Code (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Citing advance planning, Microsoft says it will have modified versions of Office 2007 available for sale before the court-ordered deadline next month to remove a disputed feature. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court's ruling that the software giant violated the patent of Toronto-based i4i when it included custom XML technology in the 2003 and 2007 versions of Microsoft Word.
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Software development's winners and losers, 2009 edition (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - In 2009, the computers got smaller, the databases got bigger, and HTML's dominance grew. None of these trends are new, and some of these changes are as old as computers themselves, but the magnitudes are greater or smaller than ever before. Here are the winners and losers we spotted on the software development landscape in 2009. For the programmers, alas, many of the year's ups had downsides.
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Hackers Hit OpenX Ad Server in Adobe Attack (PC World)
PC World - Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week.
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Microsoft Scrambles To Fix Word After Losing Appeal (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A court is forcing Microsoft to make changes to its word-processing software or stop selling it altogether. The Tuesday ruling against Microsoft's appeal of a patent-infringement verdict gives Microsoft just weeks to remedy the situation.
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