Thursday, February 11, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 11/02/2010



Opera says to introduce faster browser for iPhone (Reuters)
Reuters - Norwegian browser company Opera Software said it would launch a version of its Mini browser for Apple's iPhone next week, offering faster download speeds.
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Opera Software announces iPhone browser (AP)
AP - Opera Software ASA announced Wednesday that it will unveil an iPhone version of its Opera Mini mobile phone browser at an international tech conference next week despite not having approached iPhone maker Apple about the move.
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Broadcom Adds Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct to Android (PC World)
PC World - Broadcom increased its bet on the Android mobile operating system on Tuesday, announcing additional capabilities for its software stack and a new chip for navigation in Android-based devices.
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Judge Dismisses Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage Suit (PC World)
PC World - A judge dismissed a lawsuit that was filed against Microsoft over its much-criticized Windows Genuine Advantage program in 2006.
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In Defense of Microsoft (PC World)
PC World - I know, I know. You hate Microsoft for its bloated, buggy software, its slowness to innovate, and its government-certified, monopolistic bullying. I won't argue with any of those points, or those made last week in the NY Times by former Microsoft VP Dick Brass, who called his former employer "a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator."
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Ultimate Software profit weighed by compensation (AP)
AP - Ultimate Software Inc., which makes human resources software, said Tuesday its profit was nearly wiped out in the fourth quarter as stock-based compensation offset higher revenue.
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HP App Preserves SharePoint for the Ages (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard has updated its records management software so it can now capture for legal posterity Microsoft SharePoint files and even entire SharePoint workspaces, the company announced.
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Ikanos shares advance as 4Q revenue soars (AP)
AP - Shares of Ikanos Communications Inc. jumped Tuesday after the provider of broadband semiconductors and software posted sharply higher revenue for the fourth quarter.
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Virginia Firm Files Encryption Lawsuit Against Tech Giants (PC World)
PC World - TecSec, an encryption vendor based in McLean, Virginia, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against several large tech vendors, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Oracle and Adobe Systems.
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Microsoft Says Battery Woes Not Caused By Windows 7 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Battery problems on Windows 7 machines are not caused by the operating system. That's the position of Stephen Sinofsky, head of the Windows division, in a long posting Monday on the Windows engineering blog.
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India's software exports face protectionism (AFP)

National Association for Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Chairman Pramod Bhasin delivers the inaugural address of the India Leadership Forum 2010 summit in Mumbai. India's flagship software and services exports industry is facing rising protectionist sentiment in key markets, officials of a trade body warned Tuesday.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - India's flagship software and services exports industry is facing rising protectionist sentiment in key markets, officials of a trade body warned Tuesday.



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Motorola Droid Goes Android 2.1 This Week (PC World)
PC World - The Motorola Droid will be upgraded to the Google Android 2.1 software this week, the company announced on its official Facebook page. The over-the-air software update will bring the Droid software on the par with the Google Nexus One, albeit with some features missing.
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Protectionism Worries Indian Outsourcers (PC World)
PC World - India's leading software trade body said on Tuesday that protectionism in key markets could affect the growth prospects of the country's outsourcing industry.
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Apple Adds Faces and Places to New Aperture 3.0 (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Though it's not an official participant in this week's Macworld convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple has issued a new release of its professional photo organizing and editing software, Aperture 3.0.
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Android, iPhone OS Gain in Fourth Quarter (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Apple and Google's Android operating system slightly gained market share during the last quarter of 2009, according to a market study released Tuesday by comScore, a portion of which tracked the growth of the various mobile OS platforms.
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Toyota Recalls 2010 Prius Hybrids Over Brake Concerns (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Toyota has announced a voluntary but expected safety recall on 133,000 2010 Toyota Prius vehicles and 14,500 2010 Lexus HS 250h vehicles to correct a defect in the software controlling the anti-lock brake system (ABS).
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2010: Finally 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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Toyota to Recall Prius Hybrids Over ABS Software (PC World)
PC World - Toyota plans to recall around 400,000 of its Prius hybrid cars to replace software that controls the antilock braking system (ABS), the auto maker said Tuesday.
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Toyota to recall over 50,000 Prius in Europe (AP)
AP - Toyota in Europe is no where near the hot-selling carmaker it is in the United States. But the troubled auto maker's miseries have hit home there with the recall of the Prius, which has become something of an icon in environment-conscious Europe.
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Nuance Communications narrows 1Q loss (AP)
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased.
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