Apple's Jobs criticizes Flash's "closed system" (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Thursday called Adobe Systems Flash multimedia software a "closed system" that is ill-suited for the company's suite of mobile devices, escalating the war of words between the two companies.
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Apple buys small chip maker, app developer (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc has acquired two small companies, a chip designer and personal assistant software maker, to bolster its advantage in the increasingly competitive mobile arena.
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Convio shares rise in IPO debut after pricing low (AP)
AP - Shares of Convio are up in their market debut Thursday after the software company priced its initial public offering low, raising $46.2 million.
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IDC upbeat on Asia business intelligence software market (AFP)
AFP - Asia's business intelligence software market excluding Japan should grow an annual 20.5 percent this year as economies rebound from last year's downturn, a report said Thursday.
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Convio prices IPO below expected range (AP)
AP - Convio Inc., whose software and services help nonprofit organizations raise money, priced its initial public offering Thursday at $9 per share, which was below expectations.
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Windows 7’s Worst Features (PC World)
PC World - There’s a lot to love about the Windows 7 operating system: it’s fast, it looks great, and it has some cool features--like Jump Lists for quickly opening recently used files, Homegroup for sharing files between computers, and Aero Snap to help you quickly organize your open desktop windows.
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Users Advised to Be Careful With Oracle ULAs (PC World)
PC World - Oracle's unlimited license agreements (ULAs) can make great sense for companies that want to use a lot of the vendor's software, but a number of potential pitfalls can get buried in the fine print, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
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HP to Buy Palm for $1.2 Billion (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard plans to buy struggling phone maker Palm for $1.2 billion. The purchase of Palm would give HP assets that include the Palm webOS mobile operating system, both the Pre and Pixi phones, and significant wireless know-how to help bolster HP's wireless ambitions.
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SAP to release delayed Web software in July (Reuters)
Reuters - SAP AG will start selling a long-delayed suite of Web-based software for running small to mid-sized businesses in July, a top company executive said on Wednesday.
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Microsoft reaches licensing deal on HTC phones (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. says it has patents covering phones that use Google Inc.'s Android software — but unlike Apple Inc., Microsoft has reached a licensing deal rather than suing over the software.
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HTC to pay royalties to Microsoft for Android phones (AFP)
AFP - Taiwan-based mobile handset manufacturer HTC has agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for HTC phones running Google's Android mobile operating system, the US software giant said.
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Is Microsoft Prepping Patent Battle Against Google's Android? (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Will the next big legal battle be Microsoft vs. Google regarding the search engine giant's Android mobile operating system?
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Full Flash Support May Give Android a Competitive Edge (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Earlier this month, Adobe Systems announced it was discontinuing its development of Flash for Apple's iPhone and iPad, and would refocus much of its mobile efforts on devices built on Google's open-source Android platform. On Tuesday, a Google vice president confirmed that full support for Flash is coming in the next version of Android.
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SAP Returns to Growth and Profits in the First Quarter (PC World)
PC World - SAP said Wednesday that its first-quarter software and software-related service revenue rose 12 percent over the previous year, to €1.95 billion (US$2.62 billion).
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Google Finds Fake Antivirus Programs on the Rise (PC World)
PC World - Fake antivirus software is becoming more prevalent on the Internet, with its creators using clever methods to fool users into installing the programs, according to a new report from Google.
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Google: Adobe Flash Support Coming to Android 2.2 (PC World)
PC World - Adobe's Flash platform will get official support on Android phones later this year, when Google releases version 2.2 of its mobile operating system, according to the company's VP of engineering quoted in a New York Times interview.
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SAP Q1 net profit jumps 97 pct to $514 million (AP)
AP - German software maker SAP AG said Wednesday that its first quarter net profit nearly doubled as demand for its products rose in both developed and emerging economies, boosting sales.
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Microsoft signs Android patent deal with HTC (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it struck a licensing deal with phone handset maker HTC Corp, under which it will get royalty payments on HTC phones running Google Inc's Android operating system.
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Vendors Team on Content-sharing Spec (PC World)
PC World - A cadre of enterprise content management (ECM) software vendors is close to finalizing a standard for sharing data across their systems.
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Fake anti-virus software a growing online threat: Google (AFP)
AFP - Google said Tuesday that fake software security programs rigged to infect computers are a growing online threat with hackers tricking people into installing nefarious code on machines.
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