IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 26/03/2011
Nokia to use Symbian and Windows together for long time (Reuters)
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) said it will continue to sell smartphones using its legacy Symbian software for a long time after its first phones using Microsoft's Windows go on sale.
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Loss of faith in RIM deepens as PlayBook debut nears (Reuters)
Reuters - Research In Motion is facing skeptical investors unsure the BlackBerry maker can pull off a difficult transition as it promises strong growth from a tablet and operating system few have seen.Read More ...
Oracle Customers Using Itanium Chips Rethink IT Upgrades (PC World)
PC World - Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said it would stop development for Intel's Itanium chip architecture.
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Red Hat Proves That Open Source Is Good for Business (PC World)
PC World - Critics of free and open source software are fond of making the argument that software must be locked up, patented and jealously guarded if it is to serve as the basis for a successful business. Well, Red Hat just refuted such claims in a big way this week with its fourth quarter earnings report, which blew away analysts' expectations and placed the company well on track for billion-dollar revenues in the upcoming year.
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Lawsuit Alleges Cloak-and-dagger Conspiracy by Software AG (PC World)
PC World - Middleware giant Software AG conducted an elaborate corporate espionage scheme replete with "sex, lies and an audiotape," according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by RFID (radio frequency identification) vendor GlobeRanger.
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Google making more Android changes than just in-app purchases (Appolicious)
Appolicious - The news today is all about Google (GOOG) adding in-app purchasing to its Android mobile operating system, something it pledged to do when it announced Android 3.0 Honeycomb back in February. And while in-app purchases are nice, there's more to the story: Google plans to roll out a number of improvements for the Android experience, including better policing of its Android Market.
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Apple releases iOS 4.3.1 with bug fixes (Macworld)
Macworld - Apple on Friday releasedأ‚آ iOS 4.3.1,أ‚آ the latest update to its mobile operating system. The update includes a handful of bug fixes and security patches for iOS devices.
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Samsung Pursues Enterprise Users (PC World)
PC World - Looking to sell more phones and tablets to enterprises -- and get around Android's reputation as not yet enterprise-ready -- Samsung is developing its own software, helping customers build their own app stores and reworking its sales operation.
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Sprint's HTC EVO Phone Captures Images in 3D (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sprint Nextel is jumping on the 3D bandwagon with a new phone made by HTC, coming this summer. Powered by Google's latest smartphone operating system, Android 2.3, Gingerbread, the 4G-equipped EVO 3D is capable of shooting 3D video via twin rear-facing five-megapixel cameras for display on a 4.3-inch QHD touchscreen, without 3D glasses. It packs a 1.2-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor.
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Proposed EU Law Could Undermine Online Rights Says Group (PC World)
PC World - Members of the software industry have warned that the current draft of Europe's Consumer Rights Directive could undermine protection for users of digital services.
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Oracle's Strong Earnings Credited to Services, Support (PC World)
PC World - Oracle's net income for the third quarter that ended February 28 rose 78 percent to US$2.1 billion over the same period last year, helped by strong software sales and an improving hardware business, the company said Thursday. Revenue for the quarter jumped 37 percent to $8.8 billion.
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Russian Security Team to Upgrade SCADA Exploit Tool (PC World)
PC World - A Russian security company plans to release an upgraded exploit pack for industrial control software that incorporates a raft of new vulnerabilities released by an Italian security researcher.
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Nook Color to Get Apps, Flash Support (PC World)
PC World - Barnes & Noble's Nook Color e-reader will receive a software update in April, transforming it into a cheap Android tablet. The Home Shopping Network (HSN) spilled the beans on the Nook software update via a product listing on its site.
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Oracle jumps as outlook points to market share gains (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares of Oracle Corp rose 5 percent on Friday, a day after the world's third-largest software maker forecast solid sales of new business software, signaling strength against Hewlett-Packard and IBM in data center and cloud computing businesses.Read More ...
Google: Android 3.0 Needs More Work to Be Smartphone Ready (PC World)
PC World - Google will not release the source code for Honeycomb, the version of its Android mobile OS optimized for tablets, until it completes work to make the software better for smartphones and other devices, the company said Thursday.
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Google delays open access to new Android software (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc is delaying widespread access to the new version of its Android software, saying it has more work to do before the product is ready for certain types of devices.Read More ...
Oracle signals strong tech spend, shares rise (Reuters)
Reuters - Oracle Corp forecast a 4 to 14 percent rise in sales of new software this quarter and hiked its dividend by a fifth, fueling hopes that a global resurgence in technology spending remains intact.Read More ...
Oracle fiscal 3Q net income up 78 pct (AP)
AP - Database software maker Oracle Corp. said Thursday its net income rose 78 percent in the fiscal third quarter, helped by a rise in new software license sales and the benefit of three full months of revenue from Sun Microsystems, a company it acquired last year.Read More ...
NPR Deploys Splunk for Web Analytics (PC World)
PC World - In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads.
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Google keeps tight grip on tablet software (AFP)
AFP - Google on Thursday said it will be keeping a tight grip on its Honeycomb software crafted specially for tablet computers.Read More ...
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