Friday, February 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 13/02/2009



Microsoft to open chain of retail stores (AFP)

A sign at the Microsoft Corp. booth at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 10, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A veteran executive from the world's biggest retail chain starts work Monday at Microsoft with a mission to open stores specializing in the software giant's products.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AFP - A veteran executive from the world's biggest retail chain starts work Monday at Microsoft with a mission to open stores specializing in the software giant's products.



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Google to offer paid cell phone applications (Reuters)

People ride their bikes past the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2008. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - Google will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States.



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Nokia, others target mobile software sales (Reuters)

A Nokia N97 is demonstrated at the Nokia Capital Markets Day in New York, December 4, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - Technology firms like Nokia and Microsoft are rushing to open their mobile software stores, hoping to follow the runaway success of Apple's online App Store.



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Windows 7 Out Before Christmas? (PC World)
PC World - With Windows 7 Beta getting positive reviews, more rumors are emerging that Microsoft's new operating system will be available before Christmas. But Microsoft is still refusing to admit that Windows 7 will be ready by the end of this year and insists on the January 2010 release date.
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Telecom industry faces moment of truth (Reuters)
Reuters - The world's mobile telecom industry will gather in the Spanish city of Barcelona next week, hoping to find ways to outwit the downturn, powerful new rivals and software developers threatening to steal their thunder.
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US Gaming Market Sees 13% Growth in January (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. market for video game software and hardware registered another month of year-on-year growth in January adding further weight to the theory that the sector is relatively insulated from recession.
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Opera to Launch 'Opera Turbo' Next Week (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Opera Software said Thursday that it would launch an "Opera Turbo" technology at the Mobile World Conference next week, speeding up the Web browsing experience while cutting the amount of data users need to download onto their smart phones.
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Qualcomm, HP Among New Symbian Partners (PC World)
PC World - Hewlett-Packard, News Corp.'s MySpace.com division, Bank of America and even Nokia rival Qualcomm have joined the foundation that was formed last year to shepherd the new open-source version of the Symbian mobile operating system.
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U.S. video game sales show continued strength (Reuters)

Johanna Langill (L) and Maika Horjus play the video game SPORE at a launch party in San Francisco, California, September 4, 2008. (Kimberly White/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 13 percent in January from a year earlier, led by Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii console and DS hand-held systems, market researcher NPD said on Thursday.



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NPD: January video game sales jump 13 percent (AP)
AP - Japan's Nintendo Co. drove the U.S. video game market in January, with industry sales of gaming systems, software and accessories growing 13 percent to $1.33 billion.
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You'll Dictate an SMS in 2009, Nuance Says (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Nuance, the leaders in mobile-phone voice recognition, this week announced a new version of their feature-phone software which could potentially enable dictation in SMS, instant messaging and e-mail applications for millions of people.
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Microsoft Pushes To Boost Vista Before Windows 7 (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Microsoft finds itself on the horns of a dilemma these days. On the one hand, the company is getting some much-needed buzz and earlier critical support for the upcoming release of its latest operating system, Windows 7. Preliminary reviews suggest the new OS is faster, less of a memory hog, less fussy about hardware, and generally less annoying.
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IBM Selects Amazon To Deliver Cloud Software (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - IBM has tapped Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to deliver software to clients and developers under a new pay-as-you-go model. The agreement will let Big Blue's clients access IBM DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash, and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system in the cloud.
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Cuba gets its own twist on Linux (AFP)

A man works on a computer during the inauguration of the XIII International Technology Fair in Havana on February 9, 2009. Cuba has launched its own version of the open-source software Linux, dubbed Nova, steering clear of licensing spending required by giants like Microsoft, a state media outlet said Thursday.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - Cuba has launched its own version of the open-source software Linux, dubbed Nova, steering clear of licensing spending required by giants like Microsoft, a state media outlet said Thursday.



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Hacker Gang Targets Security Companies (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - A hacker gang, purportedly from Romania, is using SQL injection attacks against security software companies.
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HP, IBM Push New OASIS Encryption Key Standard (PC World)
PC World - A group of industry vendors, led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, is proposing a new standard to make their encryption management software work together.
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Qualcomm, HP, MySpace to join Symbian camp (Reuters)
Reuters - Qualcomm , MySpace and 12 more companies joined the Symbian camp on Thursday, giving the mobile operating system larger scale than Google's Android in the handset software battleground.
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Joy ponders software, decline of print media (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and author of Berkeley Unix, predicted the decline of the print newspaper, lamented the state of software development, and pondered the futures for green energy and the environment during an appearance Wednesday night in Silicon Valley.
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iPhone management tools: Are they enough? (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The simple facts are these: Unlike its main smartphone competitors, Apple does not offer large organizations a set of centralized application software controls to push applications and policies to the iPhone or to control the device's applications.
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IBM Floats Software in Amazon's Cloud (PC World)
PC World - IBM is delivering some of its infrastructure software as an on-demand service through Amazon Web Services, the companies said Wednesday, helping to validate the cloud computing model among enterprise customers.
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