TechWeb - InformationWeek - The satellite companies have asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent. -- read full article
AP - Brazil and India have appealed a decision to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents. -- read full article
NewsFactor - In the world of technology, success is linked to perceptions. Microsoft demonstrated its multi-touch technology in a Windows 7 demo at the D: All Things Digital conference this week, and the software giant may have hoped to overcome the perception that Apple owns touchscreen interfaces. Instead, some observers are wondering if Microsoft is making the same mistakes that now plague Windows Vista. -- read full article
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
