SAP sets ambitious goals, faces restructuring: report (Reuters)
Reuters - German software maker SAP is preparing to restructure and has hiked sales and margin targets to prop up its sagging shares amid litigation woes, weekly Manager Magazin reported.Read More ...
Android device updates lag behind Apple, intensifying OS wars (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Android is pretty distinct from Apple (AAPL), on multiple levels. The operating system, though, is at the center of their differences, with large-scale maintenance becoming an issue for Google (GOOG). Just do a news scan for Android—you’ll find countless articles announcing upcoming, delayed or problematic handset updates, with someone always feeling left out.
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Angry Birds developer sets sights on animated series (AFP)
AFP - Rovio Mobile, the Finnish software developer that brought the world the popular mobile game Angry Birds, said Wednesday it wanted to develop an animated series based on the game.Read More ...
Google software for the masses lands in Iran (AFP)
AFP - Google has made mapping, photo-sharing, and Web browsing software available for the first time to people in Iran but blocked access by government computers there.Read More ...
Sony Ericsson Sues Clearwire Over Logo (PC World)
PC World - Amid intense competition among handset vendors, carriers and software providers in the fast-growing mobile market, a new battle is brewing between two green swirls.
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Apple releases MacBook Air, iDVD updates (Macworld)
Macworld - Apple sure has a funny way of celebrating record-setting holiday quarters. Before the company ended its 2011 kick-off earnings call on Monday, Apple released a pair of software updates for owners of the latest-generation MacBook Air and iLife ’11.
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IBM Q4 Net Income Rises 9 Percent (PC World)
PC World - IBM said Tuesday that net income for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 9 percent to $5.3 billion year-over-year, helped by strong performance in growth markets as well as software sales. Revenues for the quarter were $29 billion, a 7 percent increase.
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News of 'Natty Narwhal' Preview What's Next For Ubuntu (PC World)
PC World - Ubuntu 11.04 may just be one of the most widely--and sometimes even anxiously--anticipated releases yet of Canonical's popular open source operating system.
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ClamAV Promises Free Antivirus App For Businesses (PC World)
PC World - Most of us don't like paying for antivirus (AV) software, but at least home users can rely on one of the free options, such as Microsoft Security Essentials, avast!, or AVG Free.
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Microsoft Launches OneNote App for iPhone (PC World)
PC World - It is finally here. Microsoft today launched the OneNote app for the iPhone. One of the most useful (and addicting) applications in the Microsoft Office suite is OneNote, and now iPhone users can use OneNote on the go and sync information between their Windows PC and their Apple smartphone.
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Internap Offers First Major Storage Service Using OpenStack (PC World)
PC World - Internap is offering a new public cloud storage service that it built using software from OpenStack, the open-source cloud software project kicked off last year by Rackspace and NASA.
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HP Will Show 'Future of webOS' with Tablet and More (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Get ready for the new webOS. Hewlett-Packard has indicated that its Feb. 9 launch event will include one or more tablets, and possibly netbooks and new smartphones, based on the operating system it acquired when it bought Palm.
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India software giant TCS profits up 30% (AFP)
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Coming Soon: A New Way to Hack Into Your Smartphone (PC World)
PC World - More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones -- one that could become a big headache for Apple, or for smartphone makers using Google's Android software.
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Researchers Create Software for Designing Genetic Circuits (PC World)
PC World - Creating your own genetic circuits may sound like science fiction, but that's what they said about the sun being the center of the galaxy. Researchers the University of California, San Francisco, along with the company Life Technologies, are working together to create the first software that would let bioengineers (and mad-scientists) design complete genetic circuits.
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The PC Is Dead: Long Live Portable, Pluralistic Computing (PC World)
PC World - Recent figures from Net Applications show that Windows' operating system market share has consistently dropped since 2007, and is likely to dip below 90 percent when this month's figures are released. Back in November 2007, Windows held just under 96 percent of the share.
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Ten changes we'd like to see at the Mac App Store (Macworld)
Macworld - It’s been a week since the Mac App Store flung open its virtual doors, giving Mac users another avenue to shop for and download software for their computer.
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Wall Street Beat: Software to Drive IT Growth (PC World)
PC World - Intel and SAP results and various forecasts issued this week suggest that while 2010 was a recovery year for just about all sectors of IT, enterprise software and accompanying services will be the main drivers for technology revenue growth over the next few years.
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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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