Smartphone makers to woo developers in Barcelona (Reuters)
Reuters - The shotgun marriage of Nokia and Microsoft's smartphone platforms puts software developers center stage at next week's Mobile World Congress and is likely to herald further consolidation.
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Microsoft and Nokia Partner on Smartphone Future (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft and Nokia on Friday announced an alliance that pairs the world's largest phone maker with the software giant in a marriage of convenience as the two combine forces to compete more effectively again Apple and Google in the fight for smartphone dominance.
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Nokia joins forces with Microsoft in mobile phone 'war' (AFP)
AFP - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday it was slashing jobs and joining forces with US giant Microsoft in a major strategy shake-up that left investors disappointed.Read More ...
Nokia and Microsoft join forces in smartphone war (Reuters)
Reuters - Nokia and Microsoft teamed up on Friday to build an iPhone killer in a desperate attempt to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market.
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Nokia Shifts to Windows Phone, Reorganizes (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Nokia said Friday that the company will pursue a long-term relationship with Microsoft, and make its Windows Phone 7 operating system the foundation for its mobile phones.
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Canonical Opens Up Catalog of Linux-Friendly Components (PC World)
PC World - Though hardware compatibility with Linux improves with each passing day, users of the free and open source operating system can still encounter problems with particular devices and components.
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Wi-LAN to expand into Internet, software patents (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian patent licensing company Wi-LAN Inc plans to venture into software and internet patent licensing, even as it focuses on its strong wireless portfolio, Chief Executive Jim Skippen told Reuters.
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Chinese hackers target oil companies: McAfee (AFP)
AFP - Hackers from China have penetrated computer networks of global oil companies, stealing financial documents on bidding plans and other confidential information, a US computer security firm said Thursday.Read More ...
Chinese hackers infiltrated five energy firms: McAfee (Reuters)
Reuters - Hackers working in China broke into the computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical proprietary information, the computer security firm McAfee Inc said in a report.Read More ...
Android might not be the best-selling OS in smartphones (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Last month, analysis firm Canalys reported that Android had overtaken Nokia’s Symbian operating system as the best-selling smartphone platform in Q4 2010. But research from another firm contradicts it -- so Android might not have been quite as meteoric in its rise through 2010 as previously believed.
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Flash Player 10.2 Boosts Video with Less CPU Power (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems has released version 10.2 of its Flash Player, which introduces a hardware-accelerated video technology called Stage Video. The company said Stage Video offers higher-quality video "while using dramatically less processing power, giving users a better experience, greater performance, and longer battery life."
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EU Parliament Warned to Wait for Ruling on Patent Law (PC World)
PC World - The European Parliament has been asked to wait for a landmark ruling from the European Court of Justice before voting on a single-patent system for Europe that organizations fear could hurt software companies.
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Android tablet market faces stiff competition (Appolicious)
Appolicious - More tablets to boot More tablet competition is headed Android’s way, with HP (HPQ) announcing the TouchPad yesterday, a tablet running on its own operating system, webOS. HP’s big reveal happened the same day Apple (AAPL) divulged production line details for the iPad 2. Dell (DELL) joined the party, however, with news of an Android tablet to jumpstart its product line for 2011.
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Opera to roll out iPad browser (Reuters)
Reuters - The largest mobile Internet browser firm Opera Software ASA confirmed its entrance to the fast-growing tablet computer space and said it has reached a landmark 100 million cellphone users.
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Chinese Hackers Targeted U.S. Oil Companies (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Highly-skilled hackers in China have been stealing information from Western oil and gas companies since at least November 2009, according to a white paper from McAfee published today.
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'Night Dragon' Attacks From China Strike Energy Companies (PC World)
PC World - Chinese hackers working regular business hours shifts stole sensitive intellectual property from energy companies for as long as four years using relatively unsophisticated intrusion methods in an operation dubbed "Night Dragon," according to a new report from security vendor McAfee.
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Rackspace to Buy Anso Labs, Advance Cloud Project (PC World)
PC World - Web-hosting provider Rackspace has acquired software developer Anso Labs to help build up the OpenStack cloud computing project, a company official said.
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INQ Mobile unveils two phones for social networking (Reuters)
Reuters - Cell phone maker INQ Mobile unveiled on Thursday its first two smartphones running Google's Android software, aiming to benefit from booming growth in social networking.
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HP to pit "TouchPad" against Apple's iPad, Google (Reuters)
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled its entrant in the tablet race, betting its "TouchPad" summer release will keep it in the running in a booming market dominated by Apple Inc's iPad and devices running Google Inc software.Read More ...
Microsoft Patch Fixes Active IE Security Exploit (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft on Tuesday released 12 security bulletins. February's bulletins include three rated critical and nine rated important to address 22 unique vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, and Internet Information Services (IIS).
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