Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - It's the thought experiment we all like to engage in. What would life be like without Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software crowd, the demise of Windows -- and by extension, Microsoft's hegemony over the PC universe -- would signal a kind of rebirth for information technology. Software would finally be free of the corporate shackles that have stifled innovation and dragged down the best and brightest among us.
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HCL Technologies profit down 18 pct, bucking trend (AP)
AP - Indian software services firm HCL Technologies Ltd. said Monday that quarterly profit fell 16.7 percent in dollar terms, stung by foreign exchange losses, falling interest income, higher costs and weak revenues from its back office business.
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HP to Distribute Music Service on PCs in Europe (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard will distribute a music service and software developed by Omnifone on over a dozen of its computer models sold in ten European nations, Omnifone said Monday.
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Agile software development is now mainstream (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Agile software development processes, in which software is built in short iterations rather than mapped out fully in advance, have joined the mainstream of development approaches, according to a Forrester Research report released this week.
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Oracle exec admits affair with billboard woman (AP)
AP - A co-president of software maker Oracle acknowledges he had an affair with a woman he was shown snuggling with on billboards in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco.
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RealPlayer Fix Addresses 11 Security Bugs (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team advised RealPlayer users Friday to apply a new security update for the media-playing software.
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TOR Issues Updated Software After Server Breach (PC World)
PC World - The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.
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Hacker Enables Multitouch on Nexus One Browser (PC World)
PC World - The Google Nexus One has drawn some criticism for its lack of multitouch support, especially as the omission seems to be arbitrary. But the open nature of the Android operating system allowed a hacker to enable multitouch capabilities on Google's flagship device.
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Windows 7, Snow Leopard Help Slumping OS Sales (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Overall software sales saw a bit of a slump in 2009, but sales of Windows 7 and Apple's Snow Leopard, as well as sales of business software, helped boost the industry, according to Friday data from the NPD Group.
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Motorola offers Baidu search on China smartphones (AFP)
AFP - Motorola said that China buyers of its Android-driven smartphones can opt for local search engine Baidu instead of Google, the Internet giant behind the mobile software platform.
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Motorola taps Baidu, others for China search (Reuters)
Reuters - Motorola Inc is letting consumers in China use Baidu Inc or other rivals as default Web search services instead of Google Inc, on phones using Google's Android operating system.
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Microsoft releases patch for IE hole (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft on Thursday released a patch for an Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6) software hole through which China-based cyber spies attacked Google and other firms.
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Scientific Games, Playtech to develop online games (AP)
AP - Scientific Games Corp., a maker of video lottery terminals and other gaming systems, said Thursday it's joining forces with gaming software developer Playtech Ltd. to develop new products.
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Amazon delivers SDK for Kindle (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Amazon on Thursday announced its Kindle Development Kit, which enables software developers to build and upload "active content" for the Kindle wireless-reader device.
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EU approves Oracle's bid for Sun Microsystems (AFP)
AFP - Brussels regulators on Thursday approved US business software giant Oracle's bid for hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would not skew the market in Europe.
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iTunes and iPhone to Get Makeover Next Week, Reports Say (PC World)
PC World - Apple tablet buzz has mesmerized the masses, but iPhone and iTunes rumors suggest big changes are just around the corner for millions of Apple gadget owners. Several reports are adding fuel to the rumors that Apple may be replacing Google with Bing for several key iPhone services and may also be planning a browser-based version of iTunes allowing you to buy music for your iPod whithout having to launch the bloated iTunes software client.
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Microsoft, HCA donating $1.25M to Tenn nonprofits (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. and HCA Inc. are donating $1.25 million, primarily in software, to Middle Tennessee nonprofits to improve their technological capabilities.
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Take-Two Interactive to replace 3 board members (AP)
AP - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said Thursday that it has agreed to include three people chosen by activist shareholder Carl Icahn on its slate of nominees for election to its board later this year.
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European Union Clears Oracle's Purchase of Sun (PC World)
PC World - The European Commission granted Oracle an unconditional approval to take over Sun Microsystems on Thursday, following a controversial and widely criticized examination of the deal.The deal still awaits approval in other jurisdictions, including Russia and China, but approval in the European Union is a big step forward for a deal hailed by some as transformational for the entire software industry, and by others as the killer of one of the most successful open source programs in the world, the MySQL database.
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EU approves US software giant deal (AFP)
AFP - The EU's competition watchdog on Thursday approved US business software giant Oracle's bid for hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems, saying the deal would not skew the market in Europe.
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