Microsoft CEO says changing market not a danger (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said the transition from PCs to smartphones and tablets is a time of "potential tumult" in the technology industry, but said the software maker will continue to prosper in the changing market.
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Etude sheet music app now available for iPad (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - iPad owners looking to get in a little piano practice might want to check out Wonder Warp Software's Etude; the sheet music and piano-instruction iPhone app received an update on Wednesday, adding in iPad compatibility.
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Microsoft sets up new research centre in Taiwan (AFP)
AFP - US software giant Microsoft inaugurated a research centre in Taiwan Thursday focused on cloud computing, a new technology attracting significant interest among the island's high-tech firms.
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Microsoft Windows Live Refresh Streamlines Communication (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft unveiled a major refresh of the Windows Live Essentials suite. The video overview focuses primarily on the improved photo editing, management, and sharing features--which do seem fairly impressive. But, small and medium business customers will be much more impressed with the expanded features and functionality of Windows Live Mail.
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Thomson Reuters to acquire Complinet (AP)
AP - Thomson Reuters Corp. said Thursday it is buying Complinet Ltd., a company that provides information and software designed to help businesses adapt to new government regulations.
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Five things to expect from the new iPhone (Appolicious)
Appolicious - When Steve Jobs gives the keynote address Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, we know he will introduce a new iPhone that runs on an updated operating system, dubbed the iPhone OS 4. But we don't know all the specifics (and surprises) those two developments will include.
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Microsoft's Ozzie mum on tablet plans (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was happy to talk about the history of computing Wednesday at a Silicon Valley event but did not want to talk about its future, as least as far as what Microsoft's plans might be pertaining to tablet computing.
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How Sybase rescued itself and became worth $6 billion (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Few companies get a chance at a second life. When John Chen signed on as CEO of Sybase in 1998, the database software vendor was, in Chen's own words, "a very, very dead company." Once a strong competitor to Oracle, Sybase had lost its way, in part because it missed the opportunity to enter the enterprise application market Oracle now leads.
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Chip Giants Establish Linux Group for Phones, TVs (PC World)
PC World - A group of chip makers including IBM, Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments on Thursday unveiled Linaro, a new software-engineering foundation dedicated to improving Linux distributions, including Android, MeeGo and Ubuntu, used in consumer devices.
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FTC Cracks Down on Spyware Seller (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with Florida spyware vendor CyberSpy Software, two years after suing the company for selling "100 percent undetectable" keylogging software.
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Yojimbo's new Sidekick gets data onto mobile devices (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Yojimbo users who want to take their data with them can now do so with a little help from a sidekick. That’s the name of a new feature Bare Bones Software has added in the latest version of its information manager.
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Chrome OS Strives to Replace Desktop Culture (PC World)
PC World - Google's Chrome OS is coming to a netbook near you sometime later this year. The Web-centric, Linux-based, open source platform will offer a lightweight, cost-effective alternative operating system for portable computing. Eventually, Google plans to expand the scope of Chrome OS to take on Windows on the desktop as well--a goal that requires both a solid operating system and a significant culture shift.
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EnterpriseDB Serves All-you-can-socket PostGres Special (PC World)
PC World - EnterpriseDB, which offers a supported version of the open-source PostGres database, is now offering unlimited subscriptions that will allow organizations to run as many copies of the database server software as they desire. Total cost? US$40,000 per year.
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Kensington announces TrackballWorks Software (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Input-device vendor Kensington on Wednesday announced TrackballWorks, new software for customizing the behavior of the company's trackballs.
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Google Chrome OS Could Shake Up PC Market (PC World)
PC World - It's official: Google plans to debut its Chrome operating system in the fourth quarter of this year, although the company has yet to provide an exact launch date. Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, made the announcement Wednesday at the Computex trade show in Taipei, according to IDC News.
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Windows, Mac, or Linux: It's Not the OS, It's the User (PC World)
PC World - Who's got the safest operating system? Apple, Google, Microsoft? According to one security expert, what really matters is who's using the OS.
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Google's Chrome computing system to debut in autumn (AFP)
AFP - Google said Wednesday it is planning to release its Chrome operating system, seen as a rival to Microsoft's Windows system, for free in the autumn.
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Google to Release Chrome OS in Fourth Quarter (PC World)
PC World - Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday.
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Google sets "late fall" release for Chrome (Reuters)
Reuters - Google expects to release its Chrome computer operating system in the "late fall", a top executive said on Wednesday, as it aims a competitive strike at rival Microsoft's Windows.
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Microsoft sticks up for Windows operating system (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft has publicly defended Windows in the face of unconfirmed reports that Google was shunning the operating system due to security concerns.
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