Motorola buys location-based software developer Aloqa (AFP)
AFP - US telecom giant Motorola said Thursday it has acquired Aloqa GmbH, a developer of location-based programs for smartphone users.Read More ...
Tokyo event showcases fledgling 3-D gaming (AP)
AP - The Tokyo Game Show has a lot of people wearing dark glasses this year, with the buzz turning 3-D at the annual event that brings together the latest offerings from game-machine and software makers.Read More ...
IE9: 5 Features and Drawbacks (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 Beta on Wednesday, and the software giant has packed a lot of functionality into its new Web browser including site-specific jump lists, task bar shortcuts, a new layout and a unified search and address bar. With IE9 Microsoft has focused on extending the browser's compatibility with modern Web technologies such as HTML 5 and CSS3. Microsoft says IE9 is faster than previous versions of Explorer because it maximizes your computer's hardware components, specifically your graphics processing unit (GPU), instead of improving browser speed solely through software tweaks.
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Sony's game console to show 3-D movies, get wand (AP)
AP - Sony's PlayStation 3 game console will work as a Blu-ray disc player for 3-D movies and music videos, not just 3-D games, with a software update download starting Sept. 21.Read More ...
Google’s Android Eating Away at Apple, BlackBerry Lead (PC World)
PC World - Google's Android mobile operating system is slowly chipping away at the market share lead of iOS from Apple and BlackBerry from Research In Motion, according to a report from ComScore. The report highlights Android's growth this summer, noting that it was the only platform to increase its market share.
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Motorola buys privately held software maker (Reuters)
Reuters - Smartphone maker Motorola Inc acquired Munich-based Aloqa GmbH, which makes software that allows users to find relevant web content using the users' location and social context.
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Motorola hopes for Android tablet early next year (AFP)
AFP - Motorola co-chief Sanjay Jha on Wednesday painted a future for the company that included beefed-up smartphones and a tablet computer running on Google-backed Android software.Read More ...
Apple's new iPad, iPhone software due in November (AP)
AP - Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch can handle many tasks that people once turned to personal computers to complete, from checking e-mail and surfing the Web to editing photos and composing documents.
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Apple gadgets to get wireless printing in November (AFP)
AFP - Apple said that a software update to iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices in November will let users wirelessly print photos, documents, or graphics.Read More ...
Toshiba builds Yahoo! into more Internet-linked televisions (AFP)
AFP - Toshiba on Wednesday unveiled new high-definition televisions featuring Yahoo! software that lets viewers watch content streamed from the Internet.Read More ...
Android Tops Windows Mobile in Smartphone Share (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google's Android mobile operating system has now passed Windows Mobile in smartphone market share, according to a new report from comScore.
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Google Seeks Access To User Data as It Fires Engineer (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google will be getting deeper into social networking and users' data. That's the word Tuesday from CEO Eric Schmidt -- on the same day that Google announced it had fired a software engineer for improper access to customers' private information.
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HTC unveils new smartphones, pushes into services (Reuters)
Reuters - Smartphone maker HTC Corp unveiled details on Wednesday of its push into the increasingly important mobile services sector and introduced two new handsets using Google's Android operating software.
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IBM Will Acquire OpenPages To Boost Business Analytics (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - IBM on Wednesday agreed to acquire OpenPages, a private company that develops risk-management and compliance software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Microsoft to offer free software to Russian NGOs: official (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft on Wednesday said it would supply free software to Russian nongovernmental organisations after a media report that the US software giant was aiding Russian police in stifling dissent.Read More ...
New HTC Sense Lets You Find, Wipe Android Phones (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The company's enhanced Android software also includes an e-book reader and a new mapping app.
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Curbing tech piracy can stimulate Asian economies: report (AFP)
AFP - Asian economies led by China can reap a financial windfall and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in a few years by cracking down on software piracy, an industry study showed Wednesday.Read More ...
Dell aims Streak tablet at medical community (Reuters)
Reuters - Dell Inc wants to put its new tablet into the lab coats of doctors, as it aims to broaden the appeal of the device beyond consumers and tie it more closely to the company's software.
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Oracle expected to present new exec Hurd (Reuters)
Reuters - Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison is expected to present his new co-president, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, to investors on Thursday as the world's third largest software company reports what analysts believe will be a solid increase in earnings in the face of a faltering recovery in technology spending.
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Developer withdraws anti-Web censorship tool for Iranians (AFP)
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