SAP Rolls out SaaS BI for 'casual Users' (PC World)
PC World - SAP made a major new push into on-demand BI (business intelligence) Wednesday, announcing a new suite that combines all of SAP's SaaS (software as a service) BI products and is aimed at "casual" users who are "underserved" by other products.
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Ahead of the Bell: Autodesk shares rise (AP)
AP - Shares of Autodesk Inc. rose in premarket trading Wednesday after the design software maker beat Wall Street's expectations for its fourth-quarter earnings and revenue as demand for the company's products improved.
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Citrix Buys Paglo to Boost Asset Management (PC World)
PC World - Desktop management and virtualization software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider Paglo for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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Google Scraps China Leg of Nexus One Tour (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google Inc has scrapped the China leg of a regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One, in Beijing, its second such move following its threatened pull-out from the country.
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Google scraps China leg of Nexus One event: source (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc has scrapped the China leg of a regional event to show software developers its first smartphone, the Nexus One, in Beijing, its second such move following its threatened pull-out from the country.
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HP's Singapore Lab to Develop Cloud Services Platform (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard has opened a research lab in Singapore, where it will work on a software platform for delivering cloud-based computing services to enterprises, the company said Wednesday.
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Blue Coat fiscal 3Q net income up despite charge (AP)
AP - Security hardware and software maker Blue Coat Systems Inc. said Tuesday its fiscal third-quarter net income increased more than six-fold despite a hefty restructuring charge.
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Autodesk draws up 4Q profit, tops analyst views (AP)
AP - Autodesk Inc. engineered a fourth-quarter profit that exceeded analyst estimates as cost cutting helped overcome a drop in sales of its architectural and entertainment software.
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Microsoft sets app dev investment priorities (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft's to-do list in the software development space includes continued or new investments in multiple areas, including cloud computing, the Web, parallel computing, devices, and agile and distributed development, a company executive said in a blog entry on Tuesday.
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Hack Shows How to Get Android 2.1 On Some Windows Mobile Phones (PC World)
PC World - As a long-time Windows Mobile user who finally gave up on it and switched to an Android phone, Iأ¢آ€آ™ve been thrilled with the new operating system. Now, it looks like others who are fed up with WinMo might be able to switch a little more easily.
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Analyst: Rising demand to lift Autodesk 1Q results (AP)
AP - Improving demand, especially from manufacturers, will likely mean that software company Autodesk will exceed Wall Street expectations for the first quarter, an analyst said Monday.
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Microsoft Threw Out the Playbook for Windows Phone 7 (PC World)
PC World - One of the biggest stories of the Mobile World Conference was the unveiling--finally--of Windows Mobile 7, rebranded as Windows Phone 7. The story within the story is how Microsoft abandoned the foundation established with the waning Windows Mobile platform, went back to the drawing board, and started from scratch for the latest incarnation of its mobile operating system.
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FSF to Google: Free the On2 Video Codec (PC World)
PC World - In an open letter to Google, the Free Software Foundation has urged Google to open source a video codec that it acquired in its purchase of On2, completed Monday.
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Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - It can't be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates' handpicked successor, yet depending on whom you ask, his tenure will either signal a bold new era for the company or mark the beginning of its terminal decline.
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CollabNet adds Scrum tech provider (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Application lifecycle management software vendor CollabNet has acquired Danube Technologies, which provides project management for Scrum-based software development projects, CollabNet is announcing on Monday.
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Android Software Accelerator Launches (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Myriad, a Zurich-based mobile technology firm has released the Dalvik Turbo virtual machine, which can boost application execution speed by up to three times, according to execs.
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Fiction film technology to shine at Academy Awards (AFP)
AFP - No matter which captivating film wins the Oscar for visual effects at next month's Academy Awards ceremony, software savants at Autodesk will be taking a bow.
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Microsoft steps up search assault on Google (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's assault on search engine leader Google Inc took a major step forward on Thursday as U.S. and European regulators cleared the software company's search partnership with Yahoo Inc.
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Microsoft Prepares Choice Ballot for European IE Users (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft said Friday that it will soon supply European users of Internet Explorer with a choice screen to select an alternative web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Safari. The so-called browser ballot was an essential requirement of the antitrust settlement reached between the software giant and the European Commission in December, and to which Microsoft will be bound for the next five years.
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Adobe Working to Fix Security Bug in Download Manager (PC World)
PC World - Adobe Systems is working to fix a glitch in software it uses to speed up downloads of its products that could give hackers a way to push malicious programs onto a victim's PC.
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