Palm's Software Chief Quits (PC World)
PC World - Michael Abbott, the head of Palm's software and services team, will leave the company at the end of next week, according to a regulatory filing Palm made on Friday.
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Office 2010 Clears Last Hurdle to Release (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Office 2010 hit a big milestone on Friday with its "release to manufacturing," paving the way for the software's delivery to customers starting on April 27, Microsoft said Friday.
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Oracle to buy Phase Forward for $685 million (AP)
AP - Oracle Corp. has agreed to buy Phase Forward Inc., which makes software used to manage clinical drug trials, for $685 million, the companies said Friday.
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Google Drafts Cloud Printing Plan for Chrome OS (PC World)
PC World - Google is unveiling early-stage designs, software code and documentation of a project whose goal is to let users of the company's Chrome OS operating system print documents to any printer from any application.
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Google Wants to Put Printing In the Cloud (PC World)
PC World - Google wants to cut the wires to printers and introduce wireless printing from mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, or notebooks running the upcoming Google Chrome operating system, the company said on Thursday.
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Oracle to buy drug software company Phase Forward (Reuters)
Reuters - Software maker Oracle Corp is set to buy drug data management software company Phase Forward for about $685 million, aiming to bolster its health sciences business.
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Oracle Buying Drug Trials Software Maker for $685 Million (PC World)
PC World - Oracle on Friday announced plans to buy Phase Forward, which develops software for drug manufacturers, for about US $685 million. The deal is expected to close mid-year.
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March video game retail sales climb 6 percent (AP)
AP - After a rocky 2009 followed by two months of double-digit declines, U.S. retail sales of video game software, hardware and accessories finally saw an uptick in March.
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Family: Pa. school snared 1,000s of webcam images (AP)
AP - A suburban Philadelphia school district snapped secret webcam pictures of a high school student when he was partially undressed or sleeping in his bed, and captured instant messages he exchanged with friends, the student charged in court papers this week.
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Google Solving The 'Print from Tablet' Problem (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - As we've seen from a handful of recent iPad stories, when a new technology arrives, all some people can think about is printing. The same question arose when Google first announced that it was working on Chrome OS, a largely cloud-based operating system.
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Speedy scanner re-writes book on publishing technology (Reuters)
Reuters - Simply flipping through a book may not seem like the best to way to scan it, but a Japanese research group at Tokyo University has created new software that allows hundreds of pages to be scanned within minutes.
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Boxee App Headed to iPhone and iPad? (PC World)
PC World - It appears that Boxee, the social media software designed to bring Internet video content to users' televisions, is no longer content with just one screen. A recent job posting on the Boxee website indicates that the New York company is looking for an iPad and iPhone app developer to be the first member of Boxee's new Mobile Applications Team.
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Boxee iPhone/iPad App Coming Your Way? (PC World)
PC World - It appears that Boxee, the social media software designed to bring Internet video content to user's televisions, is no longer content with just one screen. A recent job posting on the Boxee website indicates that the New York company is looking for an iPad and iPhone app developer to be the first member of Boxee's new Mobile Applications Team.
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NPD: March Video Game Sales Up, Final Fantasy XIII Leads (PC World)
PC World - Back in black, but only just, that's the story for March video game revenue according to figures released by retail sales tracker NPD Group. Combined hardware, software, and accessory sales hit $1.52 billion, up 6 percent over March 2009's total. Year-to-date we're still down 7 percent (a roughly $1.3 billion dollar deficit) compared to where we were end of March last year.
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Toshiba To Debut iPad-Style Tablets Later This Year (PC World)
PC World - Toshiba, the world's fifth-largest personal computer maker says it will launch slate devices later in 2010, including models that run either the Microsoft Windows 7 or Google Android operating systems.
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Video game sales jump in March, reversing slide (Reuters)
Reuters - Sales of video game gear and software in the United States climbed 6 percent in March, industry tracker NPD said on Thursday, bouncing back somewhat after declining for two straight months.
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After Attacks, Oracle Patches Java Bug (PC World)
PC World - One week after a critical bug was made public, Oracle has patched its Java virtual machine to fix an exploit that could be used to sneak malicious software onto a computer.
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Opera Mini for iPhone Downloads Top One Million (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Software reported Thursday that its Opera Mini browser for the iPhone was downloaded more than one million times in its first day of availability from Apple's App Store. Moreover, Opera Mini was the number-one iPhone app in the 22 featured on Apple's site at the start of the business day, Central European Time.
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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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Researchers Find Bugs in Archive File Formats (PC World)
PC World - Researchers have found ways to hide malicious software in commonly used archival formats that went undetected until recently by most antivirus programs.
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