Rosetta Stone shares surge on solid quarter, strong outlook (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares Rosetta Stone Inc surged as much as 32 percent Friday, a day after the language-training software maker posted a strong quarterly profit, as investors cheered the solid growth in its international business and the push toward a recurring-revenue model.
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WA man accused of selling counterfeit software (AP)
AP - A 44-year-old Battle Ground, Wash., man accused of selling counterfeit Microsoft software over the Internet for 10 years has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle.
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Skype Pulls Windows Mobile Apps; No Word of Return (PC World)
PC World - Skype's VoIP apps for the Windows Mobile operating system, Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Phones, are no longer available for download, the company announced, claiming the apps didn't offer a good enough experience.
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Ahead of the Bell: Rosetta Stone shares jump (AP)
AP - Shares of Rosetta Stone Inc. jumped Friday morning as a Jefferies analyst upgraded the maker of language-learning software after it reported a strong fourth quarter profit and announced new products that he said should improve future profit margins.
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They're Here: Cheap Android Smartphones (PC World)
PC World - New low-cost smartphones running Google's Android software have been launched in Taiwan recently and the good news is they should start showing up just about everywhere soon.
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Rosetta Stone shares surge on 4Q report (AP)
AP - Shares of Rosetta Stone Inc. surged in late trading Thursday after the maker of language-learning software reported its fourth-quarter profit more than doubled on strong demand from consumers and institutional customers.
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AthenaHealth says it is delaying 4Q report (AP)
AP - Clinical software maker athenaHealth Inc. said Thursday it will delay its fourth-quarter report so it can complete its year-end audit and review the way it records implementation fees.
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VMware to Acquire Software, Personnel From Parent EMC (PC World)
PC World - Virtualization software company VMware will be taking over a line of data-center management software from parent company EMC, the companies announced Thursday.
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ACI Worldwide 4Q profit jumps 51 pct, shares climb (AP)
AP - ACI Worldwide Inc., which makes software for electronic payment systems, said Thursday that cost controls and higher revenue from software license and maintenance fees helped lift its fourth-quarter profit by 51 percent.
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Smith Micro shares soar after solid 4Q results (AP)
AP - Shares of Smith Micro Software Inc. surged Thursday after the company posted fourth-quarter earnings above Wall Street's expectations.
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New York Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Pirated Software (PC World)
PC World - A Syracuse, New York, man has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement for selling more than US$270,000 worth of pirated copies of business, engineering and graphic design software online, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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Intel Faces Challenges in Windows 7 Migration (PC World)
PC World - Intel faces challenges in migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7, including application incompatibility and system readiness, the company said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Uses Court Order To Cripple Waledac Botnet (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft is cracking down on botnets through the legal system -- and winning. The software giant launched a legal assault this week against networks of compromised computers controlled by hackers, and a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., agreed to its request to deactivate 277 infringing domain names.
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Microsoft Recruited Top Notch Guns for Waledac Takedown (PC World)
PC World - Four days ago, top-notch computer security researchers launched an assault on Waledac, a highly sophisticated botnet responsible for spreading spam and malicious software.
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Palm cuts revenue outlook on weak phone sales (Reuters)
Reuters - Palm Inc slashed its revenue targets on weak demand for its smartphones, renewing concerns about its ability to compete against rivals like Apple Inc and sending shares down 16 percent.
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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 Ending Support for Older Products (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - In the coming months Microsoft will be ending support—including security updates—for a number of important products. If you've avoided updating so far, you might want to get moving. Windows 2000 and Windows XP users, this applies to you.
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Microsoft wins court approval to topple "botnet": report (Reuters)
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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