Google's $700 million ITA buy cleared with conditions (AFP)
AFP - Google's entry into the online travel sector was cleared for takeoff as the US Justice Department gave the green light to its $700 million purchase of flight data company ITA Software.Read More ...
Google seals ITA deal but antitrust review looms (Reuters)
Reuters - The Justice Department approved Google Inc's purchase of ITA Software with stiff conditions on Friday, and left the door open to a larger probe into whether Google manipulates search results to hurt rivals.Read More ...
Government lets Google buy travel software company (AP)
AP - Google Inc. won government clearance with restrictions Friday for its $700 million purchase of airline fare tracker ITA Software in a deal that will give the Internet search giant a key role in online travel.Read More ...
BMC Supercharges IBM DB2 for Mainframes (PC World)
PC World - Exploiting recent hardware enhancements that IBM added into its System z mainframe servers, enterprise software provider BMC has updated its line of performance tuning products to help customers get more from the latest version of the DB2 database.
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Google's ITA Flight Data Purchase OK'd -- with Conditions (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google's $700 million acquisition of flight-data company ITA Software was approved by the Department of Justice on Friday. But the approval to buy the Cambridge, Mass.-based company comes with conditions.
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Google and ITA Software: A Feature Wishlist (PC World)
PC World - Now that the U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of ITA Software, it's time to look forward to Google Travel -- or whatever Google's inevitable travel search engine will be called. Let's put the antitrust concerns aside for a moment, and imagine what this service could be like. Here are the features I'd like to see:
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DOJ Puts Conditions on Google's ITA Acquisition (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Department of Justice will require Google to develop and license travel software to competitors as a condition of its US $700 million acquisition of travel software maker ITA Software.
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Google's Page makes first changes to management (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc CEO Larry Page streamlined decision-making in six key product groups, including social networking and mobile, as the Internet search giant revs up efforts to compete with Facebook and Apple Inc.Read More ...
Record Patch Tuesday Addresses 64 Vulnerabilities (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - It's no belated April Fool's joke. Microsoft is planning a record Patch Tuesday next week that may give IT admins a migraine. The software giant will patch 64 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework, and GDI+.
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Security, collaboration updates for Android business users (Appolicious)
Appolicious - With Android tablet usage on the rise, and technological and software advances being made to smartphones, more business professionals are going mobile with their work. Google’s (GOOG) anxious to facilitate adoption in this market, releasing three enterprise-oriented updates yesterday. They all aim at simplifying colleague collaboration, while also keeping data safe and secure.
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Justice Department OKs Google-ITA Deal (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Department of Justice on Friday approved Google's purchase of ITA Software, with certain conditions.
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Students aim to combat malaria with smartphone software (Reuters)
Reuters - A team of graduate students has created a new smartphone application they say will allow healthcare workers in remote locations to diagnose malaria cases on the spot.
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Acer Iconia Tab A500 Now Available for Preorder (PC World)
PC World - This spring's march of the tablets continues, with Acer lifting the veil off its Iconia Tab A500. First introduced last November, the10.1-inch Iconia Tab A500 made appearances across the 2011 trade show circuit, popping up at CES, Mobile World Congress, and CTIA; but it never surfaced with a launch date, let alone the actual Android 3.0 operating system the tablet ships with.
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HTC first quarter profit triples on Android popularity (Reuters)
Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp said first-quarter profit almost tripled, beating forecasts, driven by strong demand for its handsets, particularly those running on the Android operating system
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Microsoft Pushes Exclusive Bing iPad Search App (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Not even Microsoft can ignore the 800-pound tablet in the room. The software giant has released a Bing search app for the iPad, hoping Apple fans will turn to the decision engine over a market-dominating Google for mobile searches.
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Malware Detection Will Be Added To Chrome Browser (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Users of Google's Chrome browser will soon receive alerts telling them that files they're about to download may contain malicious software. The search giant and growing software pioneer announced on its Online Security Blog this week that a new feature, available first to developers, will work with its Safe Browsing Application Programming Interface, which enables client applications to check URLs against Google's blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. That list is regularly updated.
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Webroot Mobile Security tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Android’s security flaws have been exposed, leaving consumers a little more cautious of their downloads, and security app makers a little more encouraged. As apps become hot commodities, we’re all more wary of mobile software downloads. Protecting them, as well as our devices, has become an important aspect of Android maintenance. Apps like Webroot have flocked to Android, where they’re likely to find ready buyers.
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Android smartphone share to rise, prices to fall (AFP)
AFP - Google's Android mobile operating system will power nearly half of the smartphones worldwide by the end of next year, technology research company Gartner said Thursday.Read More ...
Microsoft executive held by Libyan authorities (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft is seeking the release of its country manager in Libya, who has been in the custody of the Libyan authorities for two weeks, the US software giant said.Read More ...
Chrome OS: Headed to a Tablet Near You? (PC World)
PC World - CNET took a closer look at the Chrome OS source code and discovered that Google programmers are bringing the browser-based operating system to tablets.
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