Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse bets on iPad (AFP)
AFP - A major Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has backed Internet stars such as Google and Amazon on Wednesday doubled a fund to support software tailored for Apple gadgets.
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Yahoo India to Move Over 200 Search Engineers to Microsoft (PC World)
PC World - Yahoo India has started the transfer to Microsoft of engineers working in the area of search and search advertising. The transfer is part of Microsoft's deal with Yahoo by which the software maker's Bing search engine will be used to power Yahoo searches while Yahoo will sell premium advertising for both companies.
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Malicious PDF File Doesn't Need a Software Vulnerability (PC World)
PC World - A security researcher has found a way to run arbitrary code on Windows computers by embedding it in a malicious PDF file.
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Intel, Nokia Let MeeGo Come Outside to Play (PC World)
PC World - Developers got their first look at MeeGo on Wednesday, with the release of key components of the as-yet unfinished operating system.
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New Application Could Make All Software 'open Source' (PC World)
PC World - Imagine controlling Apple iTunes from inside Microsoft Word without having to switch applications. That could be possible, according to researchers at the University of Washington who are working on a project that could essentially make any proprietary software open source.
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NY auto show: Ford-Microsoft deal, Hyundai hybrid (AP)
AP - Ford Motor Co. says buyers of its electric vehicles won't have to pay extra for software that will help them save money when recharging their cars.
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Lawson Puts Its ERP on Amazon's Cloud (PC World)
PC World - Lawson Software announced a partnership on Wednesday that will make its ERP (enterprise resource planning) and other applications available on Amazon Web Services' cloud-computing infrastructure service.
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New API Standard Could Improve Browser Plug-Ins (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google will integrate the Adobe Flash Player into its Chrome browser and work with Adobe Systems, Mozilla and others to define the next generation of the browser plug-in application programming interface (API). The announcement Tuesday by the search giant could have an impact on competition among mobile devices and on the next generation of multimedia on the web.
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Microsoft, Ford Team on Electric Car Software (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft will expand its Hohm consumer energy management software to work with Ford Motor Company electric cars, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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Jury Rules Novell Owns Open-Source Copyrights for Unix (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The legal battle by Novell and The SCO Group over Unix may have reached its conclusion. On Tuesday, a federal jury said the rights to the widely used open-source operating system do not belong to SCO.
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What App Developer Survey Means to Your Business (PC World)
PC World - If there is one area of technology that threatens to knock the "cloud" off of its buzzword pedestal its "apps". Apple may have a trademark for the term "App Store", and it may have introduced the app to the general public with the iPhone, but apps have exploded onto the social consciousness and transformed software development.
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Utah jury decides Unix battle in favor of Novell (AP)
AP - Novell Inc. never sold ownership rights to Unix computer software code when it allowed another company to take over the servicing of the venerable server operating system used by large corporations, a jury in Utah decided Tuesday.
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Millions in China Have No Antivirus Software, Survey Shows (PC World)
PC World - The massive number of Chinese Internet users running no antivirus software increased last year, a survey showed, even though online security risks continued to multiply in the country.
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McAfee: 'Amateur' Malware Not Used in Google Attacks (PC World)
PC World - A misstep by McAfee security researchers apparently helped confuse the security research community about the hackers who targeted Google and many other major corporations in cyber attacks last year.
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Red Hat Focuses New RHEL 5.5 on Multicore (PC World)
PC World - Open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to take full advantage of the latest spoils from the heated microprocessor battle between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.
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PC Users Like Windows 7 -- and Windows XP (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Early Windows 7 users like the new operating system, but many Windows XP users still like their nine-year-old OS. That's the word from two new reports by Forrester Research, which said that 86 percent of the first users of Microsoft's newest operating system are satisfied.
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Oracle Will Make Changes in Solaris and Java (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The future for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system and Java programming language are beginning to crystallize at Oracle, which completed its acquisition of Sun earlier this year. Among other things, Solaris is expected to morph from a formerly free and totally open-source product to one that requires the purchase of a license after an initial 90-day trial, according to media reports.
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Configure Admin Rights for More Secure Windows 7 (PC World)
PC World - A new study from BeyondTrust, a software developer focused on solutions for managing privileges in Windows, has some interesting results for organizations that have made the switch to Windows 7. The key finding shows that 90 percent of critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities could be mitigated simply by not allowing standard users to run with administrator privileges.
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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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