Samsung Cleared of Keylogger Accusation: One Nagging Question Remains (PC World)
PC World - Samsung says it is not using rogue software to record every keyboard stroke users make using Windows-based Samsung laptops. The denial comes after security researcher Mohamed Hassan accused the company in a Network World article of installing keylogger software called StarLogger on Samsung laptops.
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Roku Offers Set-Top Boxes in Best Buy Stores (PC World)
PC World - Roku is making a play for brick-and-mortar sales again, offering its mid-range XD box for sale at Best Buy stores nationwide this week. Last year, a Netgear-branded set-top box with Roku software was available at retail store but Roku is betting on its own brand this time.
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Google's App Engine Gets New Search Feature (PC World)
PC World - The Python SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google's cloud platform App Engine has a new search feature that can be used to build notification, monitoring, or filtering services, Google said in a blog post on Wednesday.
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HP Gives Developers Access to SDK for WebOS TouchPad (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard is giving developers early access to the webOS 3.0 SDK (Software Development Kit), hoping that they will start working on applications for the company's upcoming TouchPad tablet, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
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Samsung Laptops Not Shipping with Keyloggers (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Samsung this week strongly denied that it is shipping laptops with keylogging software that could track the activity of its users, and traced the problem to a security program known as VIPRE.
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Samsung Series 9 Laptop Shows No Signs Of Spyware (PC World)
PC World - Are Samsung laptops shipping with software that will monitor your every keystroke, as one security researcher claimed Wednesday? We can't say for sure, but we couldn't find any trace of spying software on the one Samsung laptop in PCWorld's Lab.
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Software update fixes MacBook Air-iTunes issue (Macworld)
Macworld - Owners of last yearأ¢آ€آ™s MacBook Air models whoأ¢آ€آ™ve been running into problems with iTunes got some relief Wednesday in the form of an Apple software update. The catchily-named Mac OS X v10.6.7 Supplemental Update for 13أ¢آ€آ MacBook Air (Late 2010)أ¢آ€آ”or أ¢آ€آœupdateأ¢آ€آ for shortأ¢آ€آ”tackles an issue where Appleأ¢آ€آ™s ultra-thin laptop became unresponsive when using iTunes.
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Samsung Investigating Report of Keylogger on Its Laptops (PC World)
PC World - Samsung Electronics is investigating allegations that some models of its R Series laptops contain keylogging software that could be used to record anything typed on the laptop computers.
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Hadoop Hive Gets Production Polish (PC World)
PC World - Edging ever closer to enterprise software maturity, the Hive data warehouse software has been updated with new capabilities considered essential for production use, such as indexing, concurrency and advances in authentication management.
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Auditors: ERP Software Woes Could Cost Idaho Millions (PC World)
PC World - Idaho may be out millions of dollars due to problems with a new system for processing Medicaid claims, according to a legislative auditor's report released this week.
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Music Service Accidentally Displays Malware-Riddled Ads (PC World)
PC World - Oops. European music-streaming service Spotify accidentally sent users malware hidden within banner ads that appear within the free version of its software. Spotify immediately turned off ads as it battled to find the errant banner, as it explained in a series of frantic tweets.
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Microsoft co-founder Allen blasts Gates in book (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has accused his former business partner Bill Gates of plotting to dilute Allen's stake in the world's largest software company before he left in 1983, and tried to buy his share of the company on the cheap.
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Microsoft co-founder slams Bill Gates in new book (AFP)
AFP - Bill Gates plotted to grab Microsoft shares from his cancer-stricken business partner Paul Allen, the software firm's co-founder has claimed in a new memoir.Read More ...
Salesforce.com seeks social media edge with Radian6 buy (Reuters)
Reuters - Salesforce.com's $326 million purchase of privately held Radian6 will allow the cloud-based software maker help its clients track customer trends on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Android Likely To Lead Smartphone Market This Year (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Android's rocketing rise as a mobile platform is about to hit the stratosphere. According to a new report from industry research firm IDC, Google's open-source operating system, currently in second place worldwide, will become the leading smartphone operating system this year.
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Smartphone market to grow 50 percent in 2011: IDC (AFP)
AFP - The worldwide smartphone market will grow nearly 50 percent this year and Google's Android will take over as the leading operating system, a technology market research firm said Tuesday.Read More ...
Oracle Rumors Swirl as Lawson Users Wait and Wonder (PC World)
PC World - Lawson Software customers still don't know the fate of the company following Infor's roughly US$1.8 billion acquisition offer earlier this month, with just days to go before Lawson's annual CUE conference in Boston.
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Multicore Coding Standards Aim to Ease Programming (PC World)
PC World - The Multicore Association is establishing specifications for a programming model that will reduce the complexity involved in writing software for multicore chips used in smartphones, tablets and other embedded systems.
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AMD Releases Catalyst 11.3, 11.4 Preview Video Drivers (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Version 11.3 of the Catalyst driver offers only minor tweaks in Windows and Linux, but the 11.4 preview provides an interesting look at where AMD's Catalyst software will go next.
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Startup Looks to Poach Oracle Customers After Itanium Move (PC World)
PC World - Oracle's announcement last week that it will stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processor has database startup EnterpriseDB looking to capitalize.
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