Analyst Expects March Videogame Revenue Recovery (PC World)
PC World - NPD Group's retail video game console and software numbers won't be out until Thursday, but Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter predicts they'll leave us breathing easier after months of declines.
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Malicious Facebook Ad Redirects to Fake Antivirus Software (PC World)
PC World - A malicious advertisement has been found within an application for Facebook that redirects users to fake antivirus software, according to a security researcher.
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Palm for Sale? Any Takers? (PC World)
PC World - Palm for sale? That's the latest report from Bloomberg news, which says the struggling maker of the Pre and Pixi phones is looking for offers. Up for the highest bid is also Palm's WebOS, the company's promising mobile operating system that never really took off with consumers.
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Greenplum's Chorus Builds Data Marts From Multiple Sources (PC World)
PC World - Database and data warehousing vendor Greenplum plans Monday to unveil Chorus, a bundle of software that allows users to quickly provision new data marts composed of many sources.
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Microsoft to roll out Visual Studio upgrade (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Without further adieu, Microsoft will release on Monday its Visual Studio 2010 software development system and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 platform, followed later in the week by the release of the Silverlight 4 rich Internet plug-in software.
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Adobe needs rebound with latest Creative Suite (AP)
AP - Pent-up demand is expected to boost sales of the newest installment of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Creative Suite, the software package for professional designers and Web developers that brings in most of Adobe's revenue. The product launches Monday.
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Adobe Evangelist Tells Apple: 'Go Screw Yourself' (PC World)
PC World - Responding to a change in the licensing terms for developers building applications for version 4.0 of the iPhone, a technology evangelist for Adobe Systems has told Apple to go perform an anatomically impossible act.
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IPhone 4.0, Security News Dominate (PC World)
PC World - Apple takes top billing yet again this week with its sneak peek at the iPhone 4.0 operating system. (Honestly, we'd ignore the hoopla if we thought we could get away with it.) Otherwise, we point our readers to a package of stories about cyberwar and a load of other security-related news.
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RIM Acquisition May Let BlackBerry Control Car Functions (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Research In Motion has put its buying power in motion with the acquisition of QNX Software Systems. The Waterloo, Canada-based phone maker reached an agreement with QNX's parent company, Harman International, to acquire the company, RIM announced Friday.
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Microsoft links PHP and business intelligence (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft this week began offering a software development kit intended to boost interoperability between PHP applications and Microsoft's business intelligence and reporting software.
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Autodesk reaches settlement in trademark dispute (AP)
AP - Autodesk Inc. has settled a 3-year-old trademark dispute over its DWG, or drawing, file format with the Open Design Alliance, a consortium of software developers and users that promotes open and standard formats for computer-aided design data.
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Diary of an iPhone Developer: 4.0 Beta- Proceed With Caution! (PC World)
PC World - I am not an early adopter. I’ve been an Apple user long enough to know that good things come to those who wait for Revision B. If you consider that as a guideline, then here is a downright axiom of truth: beta software is buggy.
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SAP Users: Upgrading Has Its Benefits (PC World)
PC World - The word "upgrade" has long been a virtual bogeyman for SAP customers, given the historical pain, time and cost of moving to a new version of the vendor's ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.
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Adobe Fires Back as Apple Bans Flash in iPhone OS 4.0 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The battle between Apple and Adobe Systems over the iPad maker banning Flash technology from its tablet device, iPod touch, and iPhone is escalating. After Apple changed its iPhone OS developer's license to bar developers from using Flash to develop apps, Adobe cited Apple in its corporate filing.
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Checkmate For Adobe Flash On iPhone 4.0? (PC World)
PC World - Apple's iPhone 4.0 preview on Thursday came with a buried surprise in the developer agreement. If they want to make software for the iPhone 4.0, developers must use only Apple's proprietary tools, which could spell doom for Adobe's upcoming Flash CS5 software that will compile iPhone-compatible apps.
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RIM Buys QNX to Tie Phones to Cars (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Research in Motion said Friday that it had signed a deal with Harman International to acquire its QNX Software Systems unit to help tie its BlackBerry smartphones to car navigation systems.
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iPhone OS 4.0: A Features Report Card (PC World)
PC World - Apple introduced the latest iteration of its iPhone operating system on Thursday, which will bring more than 100 new features for users. Apple didn't go into great detail about all the new features of iPhone OS 4.0, but the company did discuss some of the most prominent ones, including multitasking, new gaming features, an advertising platform, application folders, unified e-mail inbox, iBooks e-reading software, and some improvements to the iPhone's enterprise features.
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Apple unveils iAd platform; iPad sales look strong (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off a new smartphone operating system on Thursday that features an advertising platform to compete with Google's, and revealed stronger-than-expected sales of 450,000 units for the iPad.
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Microsoft, Adobe Due to Release Patches (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - This coming Tuesday, April 13, Microsoft will release 11 updates, patching 25 total vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office and Exchange. The same day Adobe will release updated versions of Acrobat and Reader.
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Batten Down the Hatches for Microsoft and Adobe Patches (PC World)
PC World - Next Tuesday is both Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for April, and Adobe's quarterly patch release. Combined, there are a total of 27 vulnerabilities being patched in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and the Acrobat Reader application. It will be a busy day for IT administrators and information security professionals to analyze and prioritize the deluge of updates.
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