Free MapQuest iPhone App Adds Voice Directions (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - AOL's MapQuest announced late Monday that its free MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone app now offers turn-by-turn voice navigation, allowing drivers to watch the road, and not the display. The app blurs the line between direction-driven map apps and true 3D navigation software.
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Is it time to switch to third-party software support? (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - When the economy is bad, businesses hold off on buying new enterprise apps and instead try to prolong the life of the ones they have. But there's still the significant expense of vendors' support contracts. Third-party support contracts may be the answer to reducing that cost.
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Microsoft hurries out patch for Internet Explorer hole (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday will release an emergency patch for a weakness hackers are exploiting in earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software.
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Software Discovery is Broken (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - SEO, fake reviews, and deceit have made it nearly impossible to find the software you're looking for.
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Red Hat Moves Into Desktop Virtualization (PC World)
PC World - Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.
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HTC HD2 Caught Running Windows Phone 7 OS (PC World)
PC World - The one caveat for those planning to buy HTC's latest smartphone powerhouse is that the HD2 will be running Windows Mobile 6.5. The soon to-be-obsolete OS will be replaced by the newest, snazziest contender in the mobile space, Windows Phone 7 Series, later this year. So what are you to do if you want your 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon processor now, but don't want to be stuck with old software later? You hack that thing!
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RIM Acquires BlackBerry Software Developer Viigo (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphones, has added another company to its list of acquisitions. RIM acquired Toronto, Canada-based Viigo, the creator of the popular software application Viigo for BlackBerry, one year after acquiring encryption supplier Certicom.
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Rimini Street Files Countersuit Against Oracle (PC World)
PC World - Oracle on Monday was hit with a counterclaim by Rimini Street, the third-party software maintenance provider it sued in January over alleged intellectual property violations.
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RIM Buys Mobile Software Developer Viigo (PC World)
PC World - Research In Motion has purchased Viigo, a developer of software that delivers syndicated content to mobile phones, according to a brief note on Viigo's Web site.
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Ownership of Unix copyrights in hands of Utah jury (AP)
AP - A Salt Lake City jury has started deliberations in a case pitting two software companies that each claim ownership of the Unix computer operating systems used by large corporations.
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Private equity firm agrees to buy Plato Learning (AP)
AP - Plato Learning Inc. will be acquired by a private equity firm for about $141 million, the education-software maker said Friday.
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Tibco buys Netrics for undisclosed price (AP)
AP - Business software maker Tibco Software Inc. said late Thursday that it agreed to buy privately held business data matching software company Netrics for an undisclosed sum.
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Tibco climbs after 1Q beats analyst estimates (AP)
AP - Tibco Software Inc. shares climbed Friday after the business software maker said its fiscal first-quarter profit nearly doubled as license and service and maintenance revenue climbed. The results beat analyst estimates.
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Software trade group spent $110,000 to lobby in 4Q (AP)
AP - The Software & Information Industry Association spent $110,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby the federal government on intellectual property protections and other issues, according to a quarterly disclosure report.
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Will the iPad be Jailbroken at Launch? (PC World)
PC World - iPhone hacker George Hotz claims he has developed a new untethered software jailbreak method for the iPhone and iPod Touch that may also work on the iPad. Hotz, also known online as Geohot, says in a recent blog post that his new unnamed jailbreak method is as simple to use as his previous iPhone software jailbreak, blackra1n. The new software will purportedly work on all currently jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch models.
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Wall Street Beat: Enterprise Software Sales Look Strong (PC World)
PC World - Though earnings season won't start in earnest until next month, financial reports and earnings forecasts from companies as varied as Adobe, Red Hat, Oracle and Qualcomm this week indicate that sales across a range of technology products are recovering from the Great Recession.
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Oracle sees software sales up (Reuters)
Reuters - Oracle Corp issued its strongest sales forecast in more than a year as a rebound in corporate technology spending boosted demand for its computer programs.
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Oracle profit slips, but software revenue rises (AP)
AP - Oracle Corp.'s profit fell 10.5 percent in the latest quarter as the business software maker absorbed Sun Microsystems and its expenses for building and supporting computer servers.
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Saba Software fiscal 3rd-quarter profit declines (AP)
AP - Employee management software company Saba Software Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal third-quarter profit fell as increased sales and marketing expenses overshadowed a small increase in revenue.
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Oracle Revenue Up, but Charges Drag Down Profit (PC World)
PC World - Fueled by growth in new software licenses, Oracle revenue for its fiscal third quarter, ended Feb. 28, increased 17 percent from the same period last year, hitting US$6.4 billion, though earnings declined due in part to restructuring charges incurred by the company's purchase of Sun Microsystems.
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