Taiwanese Companies Join on Cloud Computing for Asia (PC World)
PC World - Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, signed an agreement Monday with the world's largest contract laptop maker to jointly develop cloud computing software, services and hardware products aimed at markets in Asia.
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Apple says iPhones overstate signal strength (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc came clean on Friday about an embarrassing software glitch that overstates network signal strength in its hot-selling iPhone, as complaints mounted about the phone's wraparound antenna.Read More ...
T-Mobile Stops Sales of Microsoft's Sidekick Phone (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - As Microsoft shifts resources to bolster its wobbly stake in the smartphone market, T-Mobile announced on Friday that it's taking a break from the youth-oriented Sidekick phones. The Sidekick, with its groundbreaking slide-out keyboard for texting, became a Microsoft stepchild in 2008 when the software giant bought Danger, which makes the phones with Sharp.
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Google Will Buy Maker of Flight-Information Software (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google on Thursday announced a definitive agreement to acquire a software company whose platform organizes flight information for the online travel industry. The search giant will pick up ITA Software for $700 million in an all-cash deal.
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Unix Active Directory Software Faster (PC World)
PC World - Likewise Software has released a new version of its open-source authentication software for allowing Linux, Apple Macintosh and commercial Unix-based computers to hook into Microsoft Active Directory controlled servers and networks.
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A Big Error: Apple Says iPhone Meter Needs Update (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Having continually denied that its iPhone 4 has any reception problems, Apple announced Friday that it was "stunned" to find out that its formula for calculating signal strength is "totally wrong." A free software update will be issued within a few weeks.
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Appeal Lodged Against EU Approval of Oracle-Sun Merger (PC World)
PC World - Monty Widenius, a leading open-source software proponent, lodged an appeal on Friday against the European Union's antitrust authorities over their decision to green-light Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems at the beginning of this year.
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Apple Needs to Rush iOS 4.O.1 to Fix Flubs (PC World)
PC World - Officially, Apple seems to be in denial about the serious and mounting issues being reported by its customers. However, complaints of the antenna "death grip", battery power vampire, proximity sensor, and other issues are floooding online forums. Thankfully, unofficially, the rumor is that Apple is hard at work resolving these "non-issues" with an update to the iOS software coming soon.
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iTunes Streams from the Clouds: 8 Questions (PC World)
PC World - Apple is getting close to launching a cloud-based version of iTunes that supports wireless streaming music and movies and wireless syncing, according to new reports on the effort first reported earlier this year. Boy Genius Report learned from one of its "reliable Apple sources" that a forthcoming update to Apple's music software will push iTunes into the cloud and bring three new features:
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Take-Two shares climb after game sales report (AP)
AP - Shares of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. inched higher after the NPD Group's latest video game sales report showed a strong debut for "Red Dead Redemption."
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Apple to issue patch for iPhone 4 antenna woes (AFP)
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Photoshop 12.0.1 patch fixes several issues (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Bugs are a way of life in software—fortunately, so are bug fixes. Earlier this week, Adobe released Photoshop 12.0.1, which brings a number of stability enhancements to the professional image-editing software, including several specifically related to 64-bit operation on Mac OS X.
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Google's Flight Search Dreams: Q&A (PC World)
PC World - Google hopes to offer robust flight search capabilities in the future, including detailed information about schedules, availability, and prices. To that end, Google announced on Thursday that it wants to purchase ITA Software, a flight data aggregation company, for $700 million. If given regulatory approval, the purchase would put Google in control of one of the largest flight data sources in the United States. Google says it will only use ITA to improve the flight search experience, and the company has no plans to use ITA to sell airline tickets and travel packages directly to consumers.
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Nokia aims to be the best with Symbian, MeeGo-Vanjoki (Reuters)
Reuters - Nokia is committed to get back the No.1 position in smartphones and plans to use no other software than Symbian and Linux MeeGo, head of its mobile solutions unit said on Friday. "It's my aim to ensure Nokia stays as the market and intellectual leader in creating the digital world," Anssi Vanjoki wrote in a blog on Nokia's website.
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Apple addresses iPhone 4 reception, promises software update (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - And lo, Cupertino speaks at last. Responding to numerous complaints and criticisms about poor cell signal reception on the iPhone 4, Apple has issued a letter on its Website saying that the fault is due not to hardware design, but to the algorithm used to calculate bars of reception.
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Apple: iPhone 4 Antenna Troubles Tied to Software (PC World)
PC World - Apple has officially responded to nagging iPhone 4 antenna issues in an open letter released Friday blaming the problem on faults in the phone's software and how signal strength is calculated.
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Google to buy travel software co ITA for $700 million (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc plans to buy one of the Web's key providers of airline travel software for $700 million, potentially raising new antitrust concerns for the world's largest Internet search engine.Read More ...
SAP extends Sybase bid, awaits EU clearance (AP)
AP - German business software maker SAP AG said Friday that it has extended its $5.8 billion tender offer for U.S. database software maker Sybase Inc. because the deal hasn't yet been cleared by European regulators.
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T-Mobile Kills The Last Sidekicks (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Maybe buying a company called "Danger" wasn't the brightest idea. Microsoft received the second half of a one-two blow yesterday when T-Mobile killed the Sidekick LX and Sidekick 2008, the last handsets built on Microsoft's Danger software that predated the Kin.
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Apple Blames iPhone 4 Antenna Issue on Software (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Apple on Friday said that a reported reception problem with the iPhone 4 is being caused by an error in the way the phone displays bars of signal strength.
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