AFP - Brazil, India and South Africa have lodged an appeal against a decision to grant international standard recognition to Microsoft's Office software package, a standards agency overseeing the case said Friday.
PC World - Asustek plans to equip its laptop PCs with Linux software that allows fast access to the Internet and multimedia files. -- read full article
Reuters - Novell Inc turned a quarterly
profit, versus a year-earlier loss, on lower expenses and a
jump in sales of its Linux business software, it reported on
Thursday. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Is the hoopla around Microsoft Windows 7 much ado about nothing? We won't really know until the operating system is released in 2010. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Given that there's no established Guinness World Record for software downloads, Mozilla is destined for the record book no matter what happens. -- read full article
PC World - Malicious software makers are using social networks, video sites, and blogs to peddle their wares to other online criminals. -- read full article
PC World - Some videos offered by advertising software maker Zango are likely distributed without permission by the copyright holders... -- read full article
NewsFactor - Apple's Leopard has some new spots, in the form of the latest version of the Mac OS X Leopard operating system, as well as a security update. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Multi-touch capabilities are expected to be part of the next Windows operating system when it is released in late 2009 or early 2010. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The open source operating system is said to be vulnerable to hacks that could leave users' personal data exposed to identity thieves. -- read full article
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.
