Expo Notes: Dolly Drive marries Time Machine to the cloud (Macworld)
Macworld - Cirrus Thinking is a developer who released Dolly Drive on Wednesday at Macworld Expo. When you use the Dolly Drive software, it shows cloud storage provided by the developer as available drives in Time Machine. When it’s time for Time Machine to run, encrypted files are saved to the cloud.
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Exclusive: U.S. asks about search fairness in Google/ITA (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department's review of Google Inc's planned acquisition of airline ticketing software company ITA Software is focusing on making sure ITA's products remain available, even to Google's rivals, according to a source close to the deal.
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Expo Notes: MacPractice updates medical software (Macworld)
Macworld - MacPractice is showing off its updated line of medical record-keeping software at this week’s Macworld Expo 2011, touting its new certification that lets doctors and hospitals receive federal subsidies to adopt electronic record-keeping.
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Expo Notes: It's not for spam! Really! (Macworld)
Macworld - Before Macworld 2011 began, our editors got together to look over the list of exhibitors. One of the vendor blurbs boasted that the company made software for creating and managing e-mail newsletter campaigns. In other words, we all thought, the company enables spam.
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Microsoft's Windows disappoints on lukewarm PC sales (Reuters)
Reuters - Sales of Microsoft Corp's Windows software fell short of outsized expectations, rekindling fears that the spread of mobile gadgets will erode its main PC-focused business.Read More ...
Strong Microsoft Sees Tablets Bite Into Windows Sales (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft's record income of $19.95 million for its second fiscal quarter of 2011 was higher than analysts' estimates, thanks to strong holidays sales of Kinect video-game devices and robust interest in Office business productivity software.
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Expo Notes: Miraizon announces Cinematize 3 Pro (Macworld)
Macworld - Miraizon has announced Cinematize 3 Pro, an upgrade of its DVD clip extractor and converter. The software lets users extract audio and video clips from DVDs and save them in formats compatible with popular applications and devices, including QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, Keynote, PowerPoint, iTunes, and iPods, iPhones, and YouTube.
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Expo: Pocket Informant 2.0 coming in April (Macworld)
Macworld - Web Information Systems hopes to prove in April that good things really do come to those who wait. That’s when the software maker expects to deliver a major update to the iPhone and iPad versions of its Pocket Informant productivity app that offers more features and improved functionality.
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Expo Notes: OWC Mac mini-based home media system (Macworld)
Macworld - Creating a Mac mini-based media center and finding the right combination of hardware and software can be a lot of hard work. At Macworld 2011, OWC demoed its attempt to simply the process.
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Google's Android tablet software inches closer (AP)
AP - Google Inc. is getting closer to releasing a version of the Android software meant for tablet computers, one that will include a fresh look and updated Web browser and keyboard.
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Microsoft 2Q earnings edge down on slow PC sales (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s net income for the latest quarter fell slightly from a year ago but the software giant still beat Wall Street's expectations despite the weak personal computer market.Read More ...
Expo Notes: Cross-dressing (Macworld)
Macworld - CodeWeavers seems to be feeling ignored. Like its two chief competitors, VMWare and Parallels, the company makes software that lets you run Windows apps on a Mac. But all too often, when the discussion turns to Windows-on-a-Mac, those other two hog all the attention, and CodeWeavers is left out. That could be why the CodeWeavers booth at Expo is staffed with cross-dressers and celebrity impersonators.
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Plantronics Adds Unified Communications To Headset (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Plantronics unveiled a Bluetooth-enabled headset Thursday that offers unified communications capabilities such as being able to detect presence as well as automatically communicate with the user's PC applications. Available for use on Bluetooth-enabled laptops and mobile phones, the Voyager Pro UC integrates software and smart sensors that enable the device to automate and otherwise streamline voice-calling processes.
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Intel Gives Away FCOE to Simplify Data Centers (PC World)
PC World - Intel has eased the migration to a single network infrastructure throughout data centers by introducing Open FCOE, a free software stack for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet.
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Microsoft Financials Buoyed by Gaming, Office Software (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft tallied US$19.95 billion in revenue for the quarter ending Dec. 31, a record second-quarter high for the company, it said Thursday.
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Instant view: Microsoft profit dips, Amazon disappoints (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's quarterly profit fell slightly as the world's largest software maker was hit by slower-than expected growth in computer sales.
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AT&T CEO: We'll push Android phones (AP)
AP - The CEO of AT&T Inc. on Thursday said the company will start "very aggressively" marketing smart phones based on Google Inc.'s Android software now that it will no longer be the exclusive carrier for Apple Inc.'s iPhone in the U.S.Read More ...
Alleged 'scareware' Vendors to Pay $8.2 Million to FTC (PC World)
PC World - The operator of an alleged "scareware" scheme, using deceptive advertising to trick Internet users into buying software to fix their supposedly infected computers, will pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission US$8.2 million to settle a complaint brought by the agency, the FTC said.
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With Skype 5.0 out of beta, group video chat becomes a premium feature (Macworld)
Macworld - Voice-over-IP developer Skype says that its latest client for the Mac is now out of beta and officially available for download as a fully-supported product. With the latest release, Skype has made some changes to its software in response to customer feedback and is also packaging some functionality into a “premium†pricing tier.
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Expo: Recosoft announces InDesign-to-Office conversion tool (Macworld)
Macworld - Software maker Recosoft will expand its family of conversion tools with the release of ID2Office. The application, scheduled to ship later this spring, converts InDesign files into Microsoft Office file formats, preserving the original file’s layout.
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