Software seeks acquisitions, improved ties with SAP (Reuters)
Reuters - German business software company Software AG will pursue more acquisitions and is seek to expand its cooperation with market leader SAP AG , its chief executive said on Tuesday.
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Targeted cyber attacks to rise further: Symantec (Reuters)
Reuters - Targeted cyber attacks will pose a growing threat to companies around the world this year after the Stuxnet worm hit Iran's nuclear program in 2010, security software maker Symantec Corp said on Tuesday.
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Anonymous vows payback for case against PS3 hacker (AFP)
AFP - Internet vigilante group Anonymous has vowed retribution against Sony for taking legal action against hackers that cracked PlayStation 3 (PS3) defenses to change console operating software.Read More ...
Android market share jumps 7 percentage points from November to February (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system continues to dominate the smartphone market, with one in three handsets in the U.S. carrying the OS, according to a story from MSNBC.
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IBM: Watson Could Boost Confidence of Financial Industry (PC World)
PC World - The software that helped IBM's Watson computer reign victorious on the Jeopardy game show in February could also help the financial industry assess risk more effectively, a pair of IBM executives stated on Monday at a high-performance computing conference.
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There's More to Love in Puppy Linux 5.2.5 (PC World)
PC World - Back in January I wrote about some of the features of Puppy Linux that make it particularly suitable for use on old and slow computers, but over the weekend a new version of the open source operating system was released with even more reasons to check it out.
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Developer Tool Updates Windows Phone 7 Devices (PC World)
PC World - Developer Chris Walsh has apparently done what software giant Microsoft has failed to accomplish: let anyone with a Windows Phone 7 device install the first two operating system updates.
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Android Becomes Top Smartphone Platform in U.S. (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Android has rocketed to the top of smartphone platforms in the U.S., according to a new report. On Friday, comScore released its MobiLens service data showing Google's open-source operating system with a 33 percent market share.
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Windows Phone 7 Jailbreak Updates Your Phone (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - A developer behind the short-lived ChevronWP7 jailbreak for Windows Phone 7 has posted a new hack letting you bypass Microsoft and carriers to update your mobile operating system.
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Equity Firm to Buy Epicor, Activant in $2 Billion Deal (PC World)
PC World - Private equity firm Apax Partners is buying Epicor and Activant in a deal that will create one of the world's largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendors, the companies announced Monday.
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Google TV coming with Ice Cream OS update? (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Google’s (GOOG) facing a good deal of criticism for not releasing the source code for Android Honeycomb 3.0 just yet, as developers and publishers anxiously await access to the operating system. Reports indicate that Honeycomb needs a bit more work before it’s ready for public access, namely Google TV integration. The next OS update, Ice Cream, will combine the Honeycomb and Gingerbread versions, and may include Google TV, supporting apps for set top boxes, HDTVs and tablets.
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Nokia says Microsoft talks on schedule (Reuters)
Reuters - Talks between Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker by volume, and Microsoft on a software deal are on schedule and a large number of Nokia Windows phones should be sold in 2012.
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Lawson Software Takes Page From Apple With Marketplace (PC World)
PC World - Lawson Software is taking a cue from Apple, Amazon and others, announcing on Monday the Lawson Marketplace, an online store where customers can use a credit card to buy a range of add-on tools for their ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications.
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Lawson Aims Customers Toward the Amazon Cloud (PC World)
PC World - Lawson Software is hoping to entice its customer base to deploy their applications in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and has a marquee customer to show it can be done successfully.
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Windows 8 to Replace Your Toolbar with a Ribbon (PC World)
PC World - Just hours after an early build of Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system leaked we're starting to get a good idea of how the latest version of Windows is shaping up.
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What Microsoftأ¢آ€آ™s IE9 Moves Mean For You (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's Internet Explorer has created some ripples in the browser sector lately, which could have implications regardless of whether you are in the Microsoft Internet Explorer camp. Microsoft said last week it would not make Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) compatible with Windows XP.
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Malicious attack hits a million Web pages (Reuters)
Reuters - More than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation.
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Microsoft Reconsiders WP7 App Rejection (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft appears to be reconsidering a decision to bar an application from the Windows Phone 7 market, in one of the first tests of the software giant's mobile app approval process.
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UberSocial Fixes Direct-message Privacy Bug (PC World)
PC World - UberSocial has fixed a bug in its Twitter software for mobile phones that put some users' privacy at risk.
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Windows Phone 7 and the Unimportance of Apps (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft says that Windows Phone 7's app marketplace is booming. In a chest-beating blog post, Microsoft revealed that WinPho7's app count stands at 11,500, and that's without wallpapers or duplicate apps in different languages. The ecosystem has 36,000 developers, 60 percent of which haven't even published anything yet, so the potential for growth is huge.
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