Friday, April 29, 2011

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 29/04/2011





Immigrant-smuggling game rejected by Apple
(AP)

AP - An iPhone game that allows users to drive a truck full of immigrants through the desert while trying to prevent them from getting thrown out of the vehicle has been rejected by Apple Inc., the software's developer announced Thursday.

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Viewdle lets Android smartphones recognize friends
(AFP)

Northern California startup Viewdle on Wednesday released software that lets Android-powered smartphones recognize people's faces.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AFP - Northern California startup Viewdle on Wednesday released software that lets Android-powered smartphones recognize people's faces.



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Open Text poised to grow due to solid pipeline: analysts
(Reuters)

Reuters - Canada's largest software company Open Text Corp has strong prospects for growth partly due to its solid pipeline, analysts said, and raised their price target on the stock, a day after it posted a jump in quarterly profit.

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Microsoft vs U.S. antitrust battle soon to be history
(Reuters)

Reuters - Thirteen years after the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the software giant of using its market power to pummel potential rivals, the case will soon be history.

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iOS 5 Spotted In the Wild Thanks to Crash Report
(PC World)

PC World - Apple has started field-testing its next-generation mobile operating system dubbed iOS 5. The hint comes from an App Store developer who received a crash report from a device running iOS 5.0, located at Apple's headquarters. Perhaps signaling the release of the new iOS is imminent, the developer also spotted iOS5 hits from AT&T's HQ, where the release could be tested before public availability.

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BMC Buys App Performance Vendor Coradiant
(PC World)

PC World - BMC has purchased Coradiant, maker of software for improving end-user experience and tracking Web application performance, the company said Thursday. Terms were not disclosed.

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Report: Apple Testing iOS 5
(PC Magazine)

PC Magazine - It appears Apple is testing iOS 5. Developer FutureTap has received a crash report from a device running the next version of Apple's mobile operating system, as confirmed via Twitter.

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SAP Q1 Revenue Up, but Profits Growth Slow
(PC World)

PC World - SAP saw revenue rise by 21 percent in the quarter ended March 31, with double-digit growth in all regions driven by increased software business from partners and the channel.

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Nokia Trims Workforce In Anticipation of Phone 7 Shift
(NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - As it prepares to load its phones with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system, Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia is ditching control of its Symbian platform and cutting 7,000 jobs in a major restructuring.

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Former BEA Systems CEO back in business software
(AP)

AP - BEA Systems co-founder Alfred Chuang got rich licensing business software applications to companies that installed the programs on their own computers.

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Microsoft App Analyzes Your Busy Schedule
(PC World)

PC World - In an effort to demonstrate the versatility of its PowerPivot business intelligence technology, Microsoft has released a free add-on application to Microsoft Office that analyzes the contents of a user's Microsoft Exchange calendar.

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Nokia axes 7,000 jobs to cut costs
(Reuters)

A corporate logo is displayed at the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki in this picture taken September 29, 2010. REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters - Nokia will axe 7,000 jobs and outsource its Symbian software development unit to cut 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion) in costs as it struggles to compete in the smartphone market.



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U.S. judge sides with Oracle over patent language
(Reuters)

Reuters - A U.S. judge has largely sided with Oracle Corp over how several technical terms will be defined in its patent fight over Google Inc's Android software, according to a tentative ruling.

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Android surpasses iOS in free apps
(Appolicious)

Appolicious - Google’s (GOOG) hard at work to meet Apple’s (AAPL) iOS operating system on even ground, quickly working to match Apple’s best features while maintaining the various strengths Android has to offer, like choice and variety. Now it appears that at in least one respect, the oft-venerated and heavily populous iTunes App Store has been surpassed by its less heavily controlled counterpart.

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Oracle Hedging Its Vulnerability Reports?
(PC World)

PC World - Oracle may be subtly misleading customers about the severity of some of the vulnerabilities found in its database software, according to researchers from database security software provider Application Security (AppSec).

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Apple: IPhone not tracking users, will get update
(AP)

In this April 22, 2011 photo, University of Iowa sophomore Autumn Bradfish, 20, of Lake Zurich, Ill., poses for a picture at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City, Iowa. Bradfish said she had heard little about the reports of her location being collected on her iPhone and she said she was not particularly concerned about the practice.  'If they use it just for ads, I don't see that as a problem. Facebook does that. If I'm going to have ads thrown at me, they might as well be relevant to my location.' (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)AP - Apple denied that the iPhone has a privacy problem Wednesday — and then promised to fix it. It took the technology giant a week to respond to a brouhaha over how the devices log their owners' movements.



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