US firm files antitrust complaint against SAP (AP)
AP - A U.S. software company has asked European Union regulators to stop Germany's SAP from tactics that it says illegally exclude it from a lucrative market for programs that help companies price their products.
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Nexus One Gets Android 2.2 Update (PC World)
PC World - Google on Tuesday officially released the Android 2.2 software update for its Nexus One smartphone. The update will be deployed over-the-air throughout the week to Nexus One users, and brings several new features, including Adobe Flash support and mobile hotspot capabilities.
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Google Sends out Android 2.2 to Nexus One Phones (PC World)
PC World - Nexus One owners have begun to receive version 2.2 of the Android software, codenamed Froyo, as an over-the-air update to their phones, Google said in a blog post on Monday.
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Baidu to hire U.S. engineers to work in China (Reuters)
Reuters - Baidu Inc, China's leading search engine, will start hiring software engineers directly from the United States early next month, as it seeks to expand its technological capabilities and raise its global profile.
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Amazon's Kindle app for Android phones is ready (AP)
AP - Amazon.com Inc. said Monday that Kindle software for reading the electronic books it sells is now available for phones that use Google Inc.'s Android system.
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Business ideas may be patentable, US Supreme Court says (AFP)
AFP - The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that a business method can be patented, a significant ruling for software and biomedical industries, though the court did not issue a definition of which types of processes qualify.Read More ...
mSpot streams music collections to Android smartphones (AFP)
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Five top U.S. operators pick Samsung Galaxy S phones (Reuters)
Reuters - Samsung Electronics said on Monday that five of the top six U.S. service providers had agreed to sell phones from its Galaxy S range based on Google Inc's Android software.
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Alleged Windows 8 Blueprints Leaked Online (PC World)
PC World - What's Microsoft cooking up for Windows 8? We've already heard rumors of a 128-bit operating system with a 2012 release date, but what about the cool stuff that would make an upgrade worthwhile? A few Windows aficionado sites have just posted leaked documents--purported to be from Microsoft insiders--that offer a sneak peek of what Redmond has is mind.
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Analyst: product launches to help BlackBerry maker (AP)
AP - Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry line of smart phones, will get boost from two new upcoming products and a makeover of its phone operating system, an analyst who upgraded the stock said Monday.
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Court rules against inventors in patent case (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to weigh in on whether software, online-shopping techniques and medical diagnostic tests can be patented, saying only that inventors' request for protection of a method of hedging weather-related risk in energy prices cannot be granted.Read More ...
Analyst cuts Ariba to 'Hold,' cites valuation (AP)
AP - Spending-management software maker Ariba Inc.'s shares have gained 40 percent this year, causing one analyst to cut his rating on the stock.
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SAP Readies 'River' Cloud Platform for Public Debut (PC World)
PC World - SAP is segmenting its emerging cloud-computing strategy across multiple development platforms, including one code-named "River," which will support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.
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Supreme Court Takes Narrow View on Software Patents (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Supreme Court refused to hand down a broad ruling on so-called "business method" patents on Monday, ruling that an attempted patent to hedge risk did not meet an established test.
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Court Patent Ruling Leaves Software Patents Intact (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.
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Amazon adds audio, video to Kindle apps (AP)
AP - Amazon.com, which makes the Kindle electronic book reader, said Monday it added a new video feature to the software that lets people read Kindle books on Apple gadgets.
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TopXNotes Touch syncs your notes with your touch device (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - When it comes to Mac-based note-takers, TopXNotes has proven itself to be a fine personal notes manager for keeping track of all your to-dos, lists, directions, receipts, and so on. Tropical Software is looking to take that note-management expertise on the road with an iPhone version of TopXNotes that hit the App Store earlier this month.
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MSpot Launches Mobile Music Streaming for Android (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On Monday, mSpot officially launched its cloud music service, which allows users to upload their own music libraries to mSpot's servers and stream it over Wi-Fi or 3G to PCs or mobile devices running the Android operating system.
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Answers to your iPhone 4 questions: Odds and ends (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - In this round of reader questions about the iPhone 4, we take on a grab bag issues, from hardware to software to just getting your hands on the darn phone.
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Geek 101: Multitasking and Your Smartphone (PC World)
PC World - Multitasking is generally understood as the ability of an operating system to run several applications at once. While the definition is fairly simple, as we've seen with releases of Android OS and Apple iOS4, the reality can be significantly more complex.
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