Tuesday, March 23, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 23/03/2010



5 Things That Could Save Palm (PC World)
PC World - As Palm had previously warned, its sales figures released last week were not as high as the company had hoped. Palm's sales figures have declined by 29 percent compared to the same time last year, despite producing WebOS, a new and well-received operating system, and two new WebOS devices, the Palm Pre and Pixi.
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Xerox Researches Technologies for Emerging Markets in India (PC World)
PC World - Small print shops in India and other emerging markets often cannot afford to buy the software required for print and design services. Xerox researchers in Chennai in southern India are investigating the option of delivering the software to these businesses as a low-cost document service through a cloud computing model.
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Earnings Preview: Adobe Systems (AP)
AP - Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. reports its fiscal first-quarter results on Tuesday after the market closes.
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Microsoft's browser loses market share in Europe (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft's Internet Explorer has lost market share in major European markets, such as France, Britain and Italy, after the U.S. software firm started to make it easier for European consumers to use competing browsers.
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Adobe debuts Flash Platform tools, including renamed Flex Builder (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe Systems will roll out on Monday a slew of development tools and technologies for the Flash Platform, including a renamed version of its Flex Builder tool as well as an IDE for its ColdFusion platform.
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ThickButtons for Android Makes Touchscreen Typing Easier (PC World)
PC World - I don't have many issues with the Android platform, but I do have one major gripe: The native software keyboard is the pits. The keys are just too narrow for comfortable, error-free typing and the prediction technology just isn't as on-target as say, the iPhone's. So when I heard about ThickButtons, a new Android keyboard application, I was anxious to give it a spin.
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Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs (PC World)
PC World - Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working.
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Novell rejects $2 billion Elliott Associates offer (Reuters)
Reuters - Novell Inc spurned a $2 billion takeover offer from investment fund Elliott Associates on Saturday, calling the bid inadequate and saying it undervalued the business software maker.
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Browser Choice Boosts Downloads of Opera 10.5 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In the wake of the browser choice screen in Europe, Opera Software is reporting a dramatic uptick in browser downloads. The company said more than half the European downloads of Opera 10.50 have come directly from Microsoft's choice screen since early March.
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Viridity's Power Management Tool Aims to Boost Efficiency (PC World)
PC World - Startup Viridity Software is releasing a new tool on Monday to help companies keep track of the power being used by each piece of IT equipment in their data centers, with a view to improving energy efficiency.
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Special Guests, Android Updates, and the iPad on PCWorld Podcast 69 (PC World)
PC World - This week on the podcast, Wired's Dylan Tweney and Brian X. Chen visit the PCWorld podcast studio for some verbal jousting over Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPad.
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Microsoft Eases Windows XP Mode Requirements (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft released a software update Thursday that eliminates some of the hardware requirements for running Windows XP Mode on Windows 7 PCs. The goal is to make it far easier for small and midsize businesses to migrate to Windows 7 while retaining access to critical legacy applications that are unable to run on machines equipped with Microsoft's latest operating system.
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Windows 7 XP Mode Loses Hardware Requirement (PC World)
PC World - The barrier for using XP Mode virtualization in Windows 7 just got lower. Unfortunately, for millions of Windows 7 users, the barrier is still high enough to exclude them from leveraging the XP Mode functionality.
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Microsoft, Adobe confident there is room for Silverlight, Flash (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The HTML5 specification could be a game-changer in the rich Internet application realm, but representatives of Microsoft and Adobe Systems, both of which have proprietary plug-ins for Web applications, remained confident Thursday in their companies' Web strategies.
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Pramati Aims to Integrate Social Networking and Business (PC World)
PC World - Indian product design and software company Pramati Technologies has developed a social networking environment that is integrated with enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning, and customer relationship management, a company executive said on Thursday.
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On the Call: Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein (AP)
AP - Palm Inc. reported disappointing sales of its smart phones, which it revamped with a brand new operating system last year.
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Amazon.com Offers Kindle for Mac E-Reader Software (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Amazon.com introduced a free software package Thursday that gives Mac computer users access to the online retailer's Kindle e-book store in more than 100 countries. Called Kindle for Mac, the beta e-reader completes Amazon's goal of offering consumers access to e-books and other digital content across a wide spectrum of electronic devices.
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Mentor Graphics completes deal for Valor (AP)
AP - Mentor Graphics Corp., a provider of electronic hardware and software design products and services, said it has completed its buyout of Valor Computerized Systems Ltd.
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Microsoft rival: browser downloads double (AP)
AP - Norway's Opera said Thursday that downloads of its browser more than doubled after Microsoft Corp. was forced to give European users a choice of Web software to settle European Union antitrust charges.
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Amazon Brings Kindle to Macs, But What's Next? (PC World)
PC World - Amazon has raised the stakes in a turf war among e-book sellers by releasing a beta of its Kindle software for Mac computers.
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