AP - An engineer who admitted he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese Navy has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison. -- read full article
PC World - Skype has released version 4.0 of its Net telephony and IM software, its biggest redesign yet, according to the eBay unit. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - While less than one in 10 developers polled in the spring by Evans Data analysts are building for Windows Vista, half of them are developing software for Windows XP. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The online video platform update will deliver long-form, broadcast-quality content without proprietary software plug-ins. -- read full article
AP - Electronic design software maker Cadence Design Systems Inc. disclosed Tuesday it has offered $16 a share for smaller rival Mentor Graphics Corp., after failing to agree on deal privately for nearly two months. -- read full article
PC World - After years of despair, developers celebrated the release of the open-source Wine 1.0 software by uncorking wine bottles. -- read full article
AFP - A software-developer dad eager to share the fun of online video with his young children has single-handedly created a tot-friendly version of YouTube.
Reuters - Web communications leader Skype
begins public testing on Wednesday of a new version of its
software for making free or low-cost phone calls that aims to
make casual video chatting more common.
AFP - China has begun an anti-monopoly investigation into US software giant Microsoft and lawsuits by local companies could follow, state media reported on Wednesday.
Reuters - The European Commission, a thorn in
Microsoft's side for its antitrust campaigns against
the software giant, is falling short in its own internal
attempt to promote more competition in the technology sector.
InfoWorld - Rackwise Data Center Manager (DCM), from Visual Network Design, arrived a little late to our HIG 319 build-out. Generally, a datacenter project would have made use of the Rackwise product from the very start of the planning process. But better late than never -- the DCM software arrived in the nick of time to help us with our sudden weight limitation issue. -- read full article
