Microsoft launches new Office, battles Google online (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp launched an updated version of its Office software on Wednesday, aiming to keep its grip on the hugely profitable business application market while countering the challenge of free online alternatives from Google Inc.
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IBM expects to double profit by 2015 (Reuters)
Reuters - IBM said it expects its profit to roughly double to more than $20 a share by 2015, helped by growth in emerging markets as well as the company's push into high-margin technology services and software businesses.
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MedQuist 1Q net income rises 7 pct on lower costs (AP)
AP - MedQuist Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter net income rose 7 percent as the medical transcription software and services provider cut costs.
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BSA Piracy Study: Quantifying Piracy Data Easier Than We Thought (PC World)
PC World - The Business Software Alliance (BSA), in conjunction with global market intelligence firm IDC, released its seventh annual study on software piracy on Tuesday. The study estimates that the commercial value of pirated software globally was $51.4 billion. According to the BSA, while losses due to piracy are hard to quantify, the $51.4 billion is most likely lower than the actual losses sustained due to piracy in 2009.
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Microsoft Continues "Feast or Famine" Patch Tuesday Cycle (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Patch Tuesday is here again. For May, Microsoft only has two new security bulletins, both rated as Critical by Microsoft. MS10-030 addresses a vulnerability affecting Outlook Express and Windows Mail, and MS10-031 resolves an issue with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) impacting Microsoft Office.
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Summary Box: Microsoft updates Office 2010 (AP)
AP - SOFTWARE UPDATE: Microsoft is launching Office 2010 for businesses on Wednesday. Consumers will be able to buy the next-generation software in June.
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Microsoft gets more aggressive with free software (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a new edition of its Office programs to businesses Wednesday, and for the first time it's adding versions of Word and other programs that work in a Web browser and will be free for consumers.
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Firefox 4 has simpler design, more privacy control (AP)
AP - The next version of the Firefox browser, set for release by the end of the year, will pare down the software's menus and certain user options while giving Web surfers more control over privacy.
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IBM Points Predictive Analytics at Social Web (PC World)
PC World - The next time you choose an emoticon to spice up a comment about a company, product or service online, know this: There's a chance that a software program is capturing the sentiment expressed by your smiley or frowny for analysis.
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Apple Disputes Android Market-Share Report (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Apple on Tuesday questioned recent data showing smartphones using Google's Android operating system surpassing iPhone sales in the United States, and said there are no signs that the competition is gaining in the smartphone market.
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Apple questions Android smartphone surge (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc on Tuesday questioned recent data showing smartphones using Google's Android operating system surpassing iPhone sales in the United States, and said there are no signs that the competition is gaining in the smartphone market.
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CommVault earnings soar as sales hit record pace (AP)
AP - Software maker CommVault Systems Inc. reported a surge in fourth-quarter profits Tuesday, saying an improving economy helped the company post a record number of sales.
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Adobe upgrades, renames DRM software for Flash (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe will ship today its renamed digital rights management software for the Flash platform. Previously known Flash Media Rights Management Server, the new incarnation is called Flash Access 2.0. The company already had announced intentions to shorten the name and will roll out the upgrade at New York's Streaming Media East conference.
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Over $50 bln lost to software piracy: report (AFP)
AFP - Software piracy cost technology companies more than 50 billion dollars around the world last year, with Asia accounting for the largest share of losses, an industry report said Tuesday.
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Google's Android takes No 2 spot from iPhone (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc displaced iPhone maker Apple Inc to become the second most popular provider of smartphone software in the United States during the first quarter, the latest sign of the increasing competition in the fast-growing mobile market.
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Nuance reports fiscal 2Q loss with higher expenses (AP)
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday that it moved to a loss in its fiscal second quarter as expenses more than offset an increase in revenue.
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Windows 7 'compatibility Checker' Is a Trojan (PC World)
PC World - Scammers are infecting computers with a Trojan horse program disguised as software that determines whether PCs are compatible with Windows 7.
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Android phones overtake iPhones: NPD (AFP)
AFP - US sales of smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system surged past those of Apple for the first time in the first quarter of the year, industry research firm NPD said Monday.
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Apple Pays Price For AT&T Loyalty, Survey Says (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple's decision thus far to stick with AT&T as the sole wireless carrier for the iPhone seems to be costing the company market share as Google's multi-carrier Android operating system eats up an increasing slice of the smartphone pie, new data suggest.
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HP Reportedly Working on Tablet Using Palm's webOS (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - HP's Slate tablet, once promoted by Microsoft for its use of Windows 7 in this new form factor, is reported to be in the process of being reborn as a Palm webOS-based tablet. HP bought Palm a few weeks ago, and this move could mean the rebirth of Palm into the new world of tablets -- and the diminishing of Windows 7 for that platform.
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