Friday, February 26, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 26/02/2010



Palm cuts revenue view on weak phone sales (Reuters)
Reuters - Palm Inc slashed its fiscal third-quarter and full-year revenue target due to slow consumer demand for its products, dashing hopes its webOS software would help it fend off bigger rivals for now.
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No Explicit Category for iPhone Apps After All? (PC World)
PC World - Looks like there won't be any 'Explicit' category for apps in Apple's App Store after all, as the Cupertino company reportedly removed the option from the App Store submission software.
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Microsoft wins court approval to topple "botnet": report (Reuters)

In this photo made Jan. 7, 2010, attendees look at the Bing display at the Microsoft exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have received clearance from regulators in Washington and Europe to proceed with a search partnership intended to challenge Google Inc. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)Reuters - Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes, the Wall Street Journal said.



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IBM: Vulnerabilities Fell in 2009, but Other Risks Abound (PC World)
PC World - The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.
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Augmented-Reality App Recognizes Faces (PC World)
PC World - Swedish software technology and design company The Astonishing Tribe, or TAT, has developed an augmented reality app that recognizes faces -- and then pulls up that person's associated social networking sites, web services, and contact information.
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Google delays Android smartphone apps release in China (AFP)

The Google Nexus One smartphone is seen on January 6, 2010 in Washington, DC. Google has delayed the China release of programs such as Gmail and maps that it makes for smartphones running on Android software.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Google has delayed the China release of programs such as Gmail and maps that it makes for smartphones running on Android software.



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Smith Micro 4Q profit dips as expenses rise (AP)
AP - Smith Micro Software Inc. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit fell 8 percent as higher expenses overshadowed revenue growth. The company's adjusted earnings beat analyst estimates, though.
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Salesforce.com 4Q profit soars on big sales jump (AP)
AP - Salesforce.com on Wednesday posted a 48 percent jump in fiscal fourth-quarter profit, on strong sales growth for its online business software applications.
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Microsoft Pitches Multiuser OS for Education Market (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft will release a new version of its Windows Server software configured to let multiple users access a server simultaneously from multiple screens.
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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)

A model demonstrates a Nexus One smartphone, the first mobile phone Google will sell directly to consumers based on its Android platform, after a news conference at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California January 5, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - 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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