Best Buy shoppers shun pricey TVs; analysts worry (Reuters)
Reuters - Best Buy Co Inc forecast profit that could fall below analysts' estimates for the current year as consumers continue to be cautious about buying big-ticket items such as televisions.
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'Asia-Pacific smartphone market to double by 2016' (AFP)
AFP - The Asia-Pacific smartphone market is expected to double to 200 million by 2016, with Google's Android operating system the leading platform, an industry analyst said Thursday.Read More ...
China's Recent Web Clampdown a Blow to Human Rights (PC World)
PC World - China's latest efforts at tightening its control over the Internet -- including the blocking of Gmail and Web software that can bypass the censorship -- have hampered the work of human rights activists, say groups based in the U.S.
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Oracle to give early view of software demand (Reuters)
Reuters - Oracle Corp is poised to provide fresh evidence of the upward curve of technology spending on Thursday, and to detail its battle plan against emerging competitor Hewlett-Packard Co as the two tech giants vie to lead the datacenter revolution.
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Skype names new chief financial officer (Reuters)
Reuters - Internet telephone service Skype said it named Jonathan Chadwick, a former McAfee financial executive, as its chief financial officer.
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RIM pulls drunken driving 'app' from Blackberry (AFP)
AFP - US senators on Wednesday said that Research In Motion (RIM) has promised to get rid of a Blackberry software program designed to help drunk drivers evade police checkpoints.Read More ...
Groups Defend Drunk-driving Checkpoint Software (PC World)
PC World - Makers of applications that locate drunk-driving checkpoints are misunderstood, defenders said Wednesday, a day after four U.S. senators called for smartphone makers to pull applications from their services.
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After Fiasco, New Phone 7 Update Begins Overseas (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A month after glitches marred its first update, Microsoft is slowly rolling out the much-awaited NoDo upgrade of its Windows Phone 7 operating system, beginning with unlocked devices overseas. Reports on various tech sites said the update -- which will include cut-and-paste functions, better Windows Marketplace for Mobile search, faster resume times, and more -- began showing up on some smartphones Tuesday.
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Macintosh software vet leaves "post-PC era" Apple (AFP)
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Motorola reportedly working on Android alternative OS (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Motorola’s devices all run on Google’s Android right now, but that could be changing in the future. Reports say Motorola Mobility (MMI) is working on a web-based mobile operating system, and that it could be an alternative to Android.
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Oracle to stop writing software for Itanium processor (Reuters)
Reuters - (Reuters) Oracle Corp said late on Tuesday it has decided to discontinue all software development on the Intel Itanium microprocessor after multiple conversations with Intel senior management.
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Apple says Mac OS X developer Bertrand Serlet leaving (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc said one of its top software engineers, Bertrand Serlet, would leave the company after more than a decade spent developing Apple's signature operating system.
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Mac OS X Chief Bertrand Serlet Is Leaving Apple (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The Apple executive in charge of the Mac operating system is leaving the company. On Wednesday, Apple announced that Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of Mac software engineering, is departing, and Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac software engineering, will assume Serlet's responsibilities.
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Intel's McAfee Unit to Acquire Sentrigo (PC World)
PC World - Intel's McAfee subsidiary on Wednesday said it would acquire Sentrigo, which provides database security and compliance products.
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Motorola Mobility to Buy Swedish IPTV Vendor Dreampark (PC World)
PC World - Motorola Mobility has signed an agreement to acquire Dreampark, a Swedish IPTV software provider, the company said on Wednesday.
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SCADA Vulnerabilities Prompt US Government Warning (PC World)
PC World - A flurry of software vulnerabilities found in a variety of industrial control systems has prompted vendors to begin developing patches, following a warning by the U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT).
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Apple SVP of Mac software Bertrand Serlet to depart (Macworld)
Macworld - Apple announced on Wednesday that senior vice president of Mac software engineering Bertrand Serlet will be leaving the company. Serlet, who holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Orsay, France, said in Appleأ¢آ€آ™s release that he wants أ¢آ€آœto focus less on products and more on science.أ¢آ€آ
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Windows Phone 7 Update Adds Copy and Paste Functionality (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft is finally pushing out a software update for Windows Phone 7 devices dubbed NoDo, which brings copy and paste functionality among other minor improvements. Microsoft's revamped mobile OS has been missing copy and paste capabilities since its October launch.
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Mac OS X Chief Leaving Apple (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Bertrand Serlet, chief of Mac software engineering at Apple, will leave the company to focus less on products and more on science, the company announced Wednesday.
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Microsoft Slowly Rolls Out Windows Phone 7 'Cut and Paste' Update (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Microsoft on Tuesday slowly started rolling out its next Windows Phone 7 update, which, among other things, will bring cut and paste functionality to the mobile operating system.
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