Opera says 1 million downloads of iPhone browser Day 1 (Reuters)
Reuters - Opera Software's Internet browser for Apple's iPhone was downloaded more than one million times during the first day when it was available to consumers, the Norwegian firm said on Thursday.
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Hate Voice-controlled Phone Menus? So Does Intel Exec (PC World)
PC World - For anyone who has ever had problems with voice recognition software on phone menus or elsewhere, senior Intel executive David Perlmutter can relate. He says voice and handwriting recognition are among the bigger obstacles to people working more naturally with computers.
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Twitter courts outside developers behind its success (AFP)
AFP - Twitter is wooing software developers who have helped the micro-blogging service rocket to worldwide stardom but now face being displaced by the hot company's own creations.
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NetSuite Hooks up With Amazon's Storage Cloud (PC World)
PC World - NetSuite has integrated its on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) software with Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3), the company announced Wednesday in conjunction with its annual partner and developer conference in San Francisco.
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Microsoft opens probe after China factory report (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft said Wednesday it had opened an investigation following a report of harsh working conditions at a factory in China that makes products for the US software giant.
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An Outside Palm Buyer Would Face a Tough Market (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Having failed to make a deep impact on the mobile market through the release of the Palm Pre smartphone and its successors, Palm is reportedly seeking a buyer for the company. However, the company's acquisition value may not be Palm's handsets but the software and other intellectual property that ships with Palm's phones, industry analysts say.
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HP Expands Client Consulting Services (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard has expanded its consulting services to help enterprises get a better handle on the range of new client devices and software that have recently been introduced to the market, the company announced Wednesday.
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Spreadsheets on the Go with Numbers for iPad (PC World)
PC World - The Apple iPad tablet has sparked passionate debate regarding whether it can be a productive business tool, or is merely a consumer toy--a glorified iPod Touch with a thyroid condition. To make an attempt at resolving the debate, I have been putting the iWork for iPad apps--the rough equivalent of the core Microsoft Office productivity suite--to the test.
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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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