Microsoft releases AppFabric caching software, BizTalk Server beta (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft this week offered a release candidate of its Windows Server AppFabric technology for caching of Web applications. A general release is planned for next month.
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Norway's Opera moves data processing to Iceland (Reuters)
Reuters - Norwegian browser developer Opera Software is moving its data processing capacity to a newly-built center in Iceland, one of the first foreign investment deals for the crisis-hit island as it tries to rebuild its economy.
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Adobe Faces Tough Fight for Flash Survival (PC World)
PC World - Once upon a time, Apple and Adobe were friends. They had a mutually beneficial relationship creating a niche market based on Apple's Mac operating system and Adobe's content creation software.
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Intuit 3Q profit jumps 19 percent, boosts outlook (AP)
AP - Intuit Inc. on Thursday said its fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 19 percent as more consumers and businesses turned to its tax and accounting software and websites.
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Accelrys fiscal 4th-quarter loss widens (AP)
AP - Accelrys Inc., which makes software for managing scientific data, said Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened as increased expenses overshadowed revenue growth.
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Android update turns Google phones into Wi-Fi hot spots (AFP)
AFP - Google on Thursday gave developers a peek at an Android software update that lets smartphones become Wi-Fi hot spots and support video based on a Flash program shunned by iPhone maker Apple.
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Salesforce.com 1Q profit down, outlook disappoints (AP)
AP - Online business software maker Salesforce.com on Thursday said its fiscal first-quarter profit fell despite a 24 percent jump in revenue, as expenses climbed.
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Flash Supported in Google's Android 2.2 Froyo Release (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google took the wraps off a refresh of its Android smartphone platform Thursday at the company's I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Code-named Froyo, short for Frozen Yogurt, the company's latest software refresh will integrate several new features such as portable hot-spot functionality and support for Adobe Flash in the Android browser.
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Microsoft's Alleged 'click Launderers' Maintain Innocence (PC World)
PC World - Beta customers named in two click fraud lawsuits Microsoft filed this week maintain their innocence, and both say they assisted the software giant in investigating the source of the problem.
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Google Is Headed for Your TV (PC World)
PC World - Google has partnered with Intel and Sony to create Google TV, an ambitious attempt to bake its Android software into TVs, Blu-ray players, and a Google set-top box called Buddy Box.
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Google Chrome Web App Store: 5 Things You Should Know (PC World)
PC World - Google gave a sneak peek of its Chrome Web Store this week at the Google I/O conference, offering up clues to where the Internet behemoth is headed when it comes to its Chrome OS operating system and its Chrome browser. The Chrome Web Store is Google's forthcoming one-stop shop for Web-based apps, both free and paid.
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Microsoft chief sees software future in the Internet 'cloud' (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Wednesday that the technology giant that built a fortune with packaged software is betting the future of computing is in the Internet "cloud."
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Google premieres Web television gamble (Reuters)
Reuters - Web search king Google Inc on Thursday showed off a risky attempt to marry the Web to television and reach the $70 billion TV advertising market, chasing a dream that has eluded even archrival Apple Inc.
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Sonus CEO to step down in 2011 (AP)
AP - Sonus Networks Inc., a maker of Internet network hardware and software, said Thursday its president and CEO Richard Nottenburg plans to step down by the end of March 2011.
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Opera browser enjoys EU download boom (Reuters)
Reuters - Opera Software has seen daily downloads of its browsers in European countries as much as triple after Microsoft started to give consumers greater access to rival browsers.
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Hands-On: Flash for Android and Android 2.2 "Froyo" (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The new Android 2.2 mobile OS will be the first to support full Adobe Flash 10.1, and Adobe sent us a Google Nexus One loaded with the new software to check it out.
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Up to 20 bidders interested in Novell: report (Reuters)
Reuters - As many as 20 bidders are interested in buying software company Novell Inc , which has put itself up for sale and is this week accepting bids, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Adobe Releases HTML5 Add-On for Creative Suite 5 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems announced Wednesday that it is releasing a new HTML5 tool set for web designers and developers as an add-on to its Creative Suite 5. The move follows weeks of verbal jousts between Adobe and Apple over the latter's insistence that HTML5 and other solutions be used for interactive multimedia on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, rather than Adobe's popular Flash technology.
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VMware, Google To Collaborate on Cloud Applications (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - VMware on Wednesday announced a high-tech collaboration with Google. The companies said they will make enterprise software developers more efficient in building, deploying and managing applications in the cloud.
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Adobe embracing Apple-favored online video format (AFP)
AFP - Adobe Systems on Wednesday put aside its tiff with Apple and told thousands of software developers it is embracing the online video format preferred by the maker of iPhones, iPods and iPads.
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