NewsFactor - China's State Intellectual Property Office has denied a flurry of media reports suggesting the government agency was investigating Microsoft for discriminatory software pricing. In a statement briefly posted at its official Web site, according to media sources, the SIPO noted that it has never undertaken any market-monopoly investigations before, and has no plans to do so because its mandate from Chinese government agencies is "to investigate and research domestic piracy issues." -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Such a move could spur the use of Linux as the operating system of choice in virtual machine environments. -- read full article
Reuters - Norwegian browser maker Opera Software
said it is targeting revenue growth of around 50
percent in 2008 and even more in 2009 on increasing demand. -- read full article
Reuters - Video game maker Take-Two Interactive
Software said on Thursday it reached an agreement with
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on providing information
regarding a takeover bid by larger rival Electronic Arts Inc
.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company unveiled a batch of new or upgraded Business Service Management products at the HP Software Universe user group meeting in Las Vegas. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software and services company has added support for VMware's Virtual Machine Interface into the SUSE Linux Kernel. -- read full article
AP - The new version of the Firefox Web browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first 24 hours it was available, the software's developers said Wednesday.
AP - An engineer who admitted he tried to sell fighter-pilot training software to the Chinese Navy was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in federal prison, in the first sentencing for a newly defined intellectual property crime. -- read full article
AP - China's anti-piracy bureau on Thursday denied reports it is investigating possible monopoly behavior of large software companies including Microsoft Corp.
PC World - China has reportedly launched an investigation into whether Microsoft unfairly dominates its software market, state media... -- read full article
AFP - China has begun an anti-monopoly investigation into US giant Microsoft and several other global software firms, the country's intellectual property watchdog said Wednesday.
PC World - Microsoft said it is unaware of an investigation into whether the company unfairly dominates China's software market as... -- read full article
