AP - South Africa is appealing a decision to make Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents, officials said Wednesday. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Its new era of software development includes Google Gears, Android, Google App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenSocial API, the company revealed at its I/O conference. -- read full article
AP - Google Inc. showed off its nearly completed mobile software system to about 3,000 computer programmers Wednesday, hoping to cultivate more services and advertising for people on the go. -- read full article
Reuters - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive
Jerry Yang said on Wednesday a potential deal with Microsoft
has tremendous power, but the software giant appears no longer
interested in a full merger.
PC Magazine - Microsoft is finally opening up about when Windows 7 will ship, but the company continues to share just a few, yet tantalizing details of what the eagerly anticipated OS update will be all about. The first? Multitouch support. -- read full article
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - The future of magazine publishing increasingly is appearing on a digital display - not just a newsstand. Advancements in software and hardware are making it easier for a growing faction of consumers - including coveted younger readers called screen-agers - to read their favorite publications on the Internet or download and read them later offline. -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and its top executives reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.
AP - South Africa is appealing a decision to make Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents, officials said Wednesday. -- read full article
Reuters - Google Inc is
supplying software technology that will let users of News
Corp's (NWSa.N) popular social network site MySpace more
quickly search their e-mail, the companies said on Wednesday.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's attempt to strike a
deal with Yahoo Inc is an "accelerator" of its online strategy,
but not the entire vision, the company's top software executive
said on Wednesday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Are all those Windows Vista User Account Control warnings driving you nuts? Here are seven ways to make Vista's UAC less intrusive, while keeping legitimate security threats at bay. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - For now, security on mobile devices is seen as an extra feature on programs designed to fight malicious software on personal computers and laptops. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Microsoft expects its Windows Mobile software to grow by at least 50 percent worldwide in this and the next fiscal years. According to a report by Reuters news service, Eddie Wu, Microsoft's managing director of OEM embedded devices in Asia, projected the software giant will sell 20 million units with Windows Mobile in the fiscal year ending in June. In the last fiscal year, it sold more than 11 million units. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems released beta versions of three key applications from its upcoming Creative Suite 4 package of graphic, Web and multimedia software on Tuesday. Preview versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Southbound are available for download. -- read full article
