Google Tightens Apps' Uptime Guarantee (PC World)
PC World - Google is modifying its Apps service level agreement in ways that increase the company's accountability whenever the hosted collaboration and communication software experiences downtime, the company plans to announce on Friday.
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New Cassandra Can Pack Two Billion Columns Into a Row (PC World)
PC World - The cadre of volunteer developers behind the Cassandra distributed database have released the latest version of their open source software, able to hold up to 2 billion columns per row.
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Murdoch's iPad 'Daily' May be Late Because of Apple (PC World)
PC World - The first iPad-only newspaper from News Corp's Rupert Murdoch has been delayed by a few weeks, according to All Things Digital, a publication owned be the media mogul. Called The Daily, the tablet-exclusive publication was expected to be unveiled next week, but it thta appears software tweaks from Apple at the push subscription iOS feature are holding back the launch.
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Is Android Less Secure Than iPhone? Um, No. (PC World)
PC World - One can only hope that security software provider Trend Micro saw a nice sales boost after the proclamation of its chairman earlier this week that Android phones are more vulnerable to hacking than iPhones are. If it didn't, those blatantly self-serving statements were made for nothing.
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US may challenge Google's ITA buy: WSJ (AFP)
AFP - The US Justice Department is preparing a potential court challenge to Google's $700 million acquisition of travel information company ITA Software, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.Read More ...
Report: DOJ Prepares Challenge to Google's ITA Acquisition (PC World)
PC World - The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing documents for an antitrust challenge of Google's planned acquisition of travel software maker ITA Software, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
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Print Sharing brings advanced printing features to iOS (Macworld)
Macworld - Avatron, purveyor of iOS apps like Air Sharing and Air Display, has taken on the challenge of wireless printing with Print Sharing. The $3 app allows you to print directly from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, without the need for any additional software.
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Theme makers unleash templates for Keynote, iWeb (Macworld)
Macworld - Something about Thursday must inspire templates, as three software developers announced new themes aimed at assorted Apple iApplications.
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U.S. may challenge Google's ITA deal: sources (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. regulators are putting together a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc's planned $700 million acquisition of airline ticketing software company ITA Software, sources knowledgeable about the deal said on Thursday.Read More ...
EarthDesk goes global in the Mac App Store (Macworld)
Macworld - EarthDesk, the software program that replaces your computer’s desktop with a real-time satellite-style view of the planet, is now available in the Mac App Store.
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Ultimate Software says no current plans for sale (Reuters)
Reuters - Ultimate Software Group Inc said it has no current plans to sell itself, following a Reuters report that the cloud-computing company had hired an investment bank to consider a sale.
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SAP software sales jump outshines lawsuit drag (Reuters)
Reuters - SAP said software sales jumped by about a third in the fourth quarter, boosting operating margins and sending its shares higher despite uncertainty over U.S. litigation.
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New Mule Refines Cloud Deployments (PC World)
PC World - Further tweaking its software for cloud deployments, MuleSoft has updated its Mule enterprise service bus (ESB) with a wider range of tools to support use in hosted environments.
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SAP Q4 Preliminary Results Show Jump in Software Revenue (PC World)
PC World - SAP on Thursday reported preliminary results for the fourth quarter and year ending Dec. 31 that showed a strong uptick in software revenue, spurred in part by its acquisition of Sybase last year.
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Android Trumps Apple on Mobile Ad Network (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Mobile Advertising company Millennial Media has more evidence of Android's growing strength. For the first time, Google's platform has surpassed Apple's iOS as the top operating system on Millennial's mobile ad network.
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SPB Software Helps Users Migrate to Android (PC World)
PC World - SPB Software has released a migration tool that should make it easier for consumers to move from Symbian or Windows Mobile to Android-based smartphones and tablets, the company said on Wednesday.
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India's Infosys reports 14.1% net profit rise (AFP)
AFP - Indian software exporter Infosys posted Thursday a 14.1 percent rise in consolidated net profit, lagging forecasts as a strong rupee and wage costs offset improved outsourcing demand.Read More ...
Google turns Android smartphones into interpreters (AFP)
AFP - Google on Wednesday began turning Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.Read More ...
Google To Pull H.264 Video Support from Chrome Browser (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google gave developers advance warning Tuesday that it will withdraw support for the popular H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser, though the change isn't expected to take effect for a couple of months. The goal is to put Google's resources squarely behind WebM -- an open-source video technology unveiled by Google last year that is already supported by Adobe Systems, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and more than 40 other publishers, software and hardware vendors.
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Apple releases iOS 4.3 beta for developers (Macworld)
Macworld - Hot on the heels of Verizon’s long-awaited iPhone announcement, Apple on Wednesday released a new beta of iOS to developers. One of the major features included in this iOS 4.3 beta is third-party access to AirPlay, the much-touted media streaming feature that arrived in iOS 4.2. The iOS 4.3 beta covers the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad; there’s also a pre-release version of new software for the second-generation Apple TV.
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