An IT Nightmare: Patches for Windows, Oracle and Adobe (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - On April's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft issued 11 security bulletins to address 25 vulnerabilities. Nine of those flaws are rated critical. On the same day, Oracle and Adobe Systems also released security updates. Oracle addressed 47 vulnerabilities and Adobe is issuing fixes for both Acrobat and Reader, making this month a nightmare for IT administrators in most enterprises.
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Ex-SAP CEO Resurfaces at Cloud SCM Vendor (PC World)
PC World - Former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker has been appointed to the board of GT Nexus, maker of on-demand SCM (supply chain management) software, roughly two months after his departure from the ERP (enterprise resource planning) giant.
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Rally adds Kanban tool to agile arsenal (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Application lifecycle management software vendor Rally Software is announcing Wednesday that is has acquired AgileZen, which offers a visual project collaboration tool leveraging the "Lean" concept of Kanban.
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Government Says Data Estimating Piracy Losses is Unsubstantiated (PC World)
PC World - We've all heard the MPAA and the RIAA whine, whine, whine about how Internet piracy has basically destroyed the movie/TV/software/music/video game industry--citing famous studies that estimate as much as $200 billion and 750,000 jobs lost in a year. But now the government is stepping in and admitting what many kind of suspected--those studies are often misleading.
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'IT Genome' an Effort to Map Tech 'DNA' (PC World)
PC World - IT discovery vendor BDNA on Wednesday unveiled Technopedia, what it calls the world's first "IT Genome," a regularly updated encyclopedia of information on every type of enterprise software and hardware platform.
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Apache Project Server Hacked, Passwords Compromised (PC World)
PC World - Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.
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Google Docs Enhanced as Microsoft Office Battle Looms (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The Battle for Cloud Apps moved forward Monday, as Google announced new features for Google Docs. The enhancements help prepare Google's cloud-based office applications for the release next month of Microsoft's Office 2010, which will offer web-based functions.
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Opera Mini Gets Apple's OK for iPhone, iPod Touch (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Opera Software said Tuesday that Apple has approved its Opera Mini mobile browser for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. The popular browser software will become available on Apple's App Store as a free download within 24 hours, the Norway-based company said.
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IBM Ties Salesforce.com, UPS to LotusLive (PC World)
PC World - IBM is integrating its LotusLive SaaS (software as a service) collaboration suite with a range of other business applications and services, including Salesforce.com, UPS shipping, Skype and the Silanis e-signature service.
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VMware, Salesforce.com team up on new product (Reuters)
Reuters - VMware Inc and Salesforce.com Inc, two software makers whose sales have outperformed the industry in recent years, plan to introduce a new cloud-computing product.
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Intel Seeks Java as AppUp Store Apps Reach 200 (PC World)
PC World - Intel is talking to several companies to use their Web software programming tools with the AppUp store, including Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight, but it's having a hard time finding anyone to talk to about Java.
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Intel Teams With China's Tencent on MeeGo Mobile OS (PC World)
PC World - Intel will team up with Chinese Internet company Tencent on development using the next generation of the MeeGo mobile operating system, Intel said Tuesday.
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Opera browser gets to iPhone (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc has accepted distribution of Opera Software's Internet browser for its iPhone after a long review, opening a new and potentially lucrative market it has so far closely guarded.
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Intel Puts Google's Android on Atom Smartphones (PC World)
PC World - Intel has ported Google's Android mobile operating system to smartphones based on its Atom microprocessors, an Intel executive said Tuesday.
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IBM Unveils Power7 Blades, New Edition of AIX (PC World)
PC World - IBM is beefing up its server line-up with the first blades based on its Power7 processor, the company announced Tuesday. It is also introducing a new, low-end edition of its AIX operating system for smaller businesses and enterprises doing consolidation projects.
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Infosys net falls 0.9 percent, lags forecast (Reuters)
Reuters - Infosys Technologies , India's No. 2 software services exporter, reported a 0.9 percent drop in quarterly profit, slightly more than the market estimates, as a firmer rupee countered the impact of rising demand for outsourcing.
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New Google Docs Features Step-by-Step (PC World)
PC World - With the release of Microsoft Office 2010 impending, Google unveiled new features and functions in its cloud-based Google Docs. The changes don't leapfrog--or even fully catch up with--what Microsoft Office is capable of, but they do address some common complaints, and expand on perhaps the core competency of Google Docs--real-time collaboration online.
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Google Hosts 400 CIOs, Updates Docs (PC World)
PC World - Google's enterprise division is hosting several hundred CIOs on Monday at its headquarters, where it will unveil enhancements to its Docs office suite, including a revamped code base.
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Apple Approves Opera Mini for iPhone (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - According to Opera Software, Apple on Monday approved Opera Mini, the first alternative Web browser for its iPhone.
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Microsoft exec: The world runs on software (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Declaring that software runs the world and developers are the engine behind software, a high-level Microsoft official Monday unleashed the company's latest software development platform, Visual Studio 2010 and the accompanying .Net Framework 4.
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