AP - Adobe Systems Inc. is launching a new version of its document sharing software Acrobat on Monday, and this time it can package videos. -- read full article
InfoWorld - AmberPoint is announcing on Monday an extension of its SOA runtime governance software to cover transactions flowing across complex heterogeneous systems. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A single unsecured smartphone can jeopardize the security of your entire organization. Here's how to manage the risk by using firm IT policies and mobile device management software. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Valve's Steam Client, which distributes and manages your games for the PC, announced a update called Steam Cloud. It lets users store profiles, key-bindings, and saved games online. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Members of a Brazilian technical committee said the process that led to OOXML's ratification was flawed, in part because not all participants were given enough time to make their views heard. -- read full article
Reuters - DISH Network Corp and
EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit
against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find
that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The syncing software has been overhauled to improve the speed, stability, and features for the latest Mac OS X operating system. -- read full article
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
