Reuters - New mobile phones being developed by
Google Inc and more than 30 partners based on software
called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule
that some cellular carriers and program makers are struggling
to meet, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The 1.5 version of the open source system used on software development projects produces an annotated log history to record what code was worked on by whom and what changes were made. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Software experts at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver are now doubling efforts to save more of the mission's data. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The original patch worked on Windows Vista, but failed to accomplish its task in Windows XP SP2 and SP3, the Microsoft Security Response Center said. -- read full article
PC World - Microsoft's latest security update has detected and removed more online game password-logging software from 2 million PCs. -- read full article
AP - A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay Alcatel-Lucent $511.6 million in damages and interest, letting stand a jury's decision that the software maker infringed on two patents. -- read full article
PC World - A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design a smart card that offers stronger protection of personal data. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The former SoftGrid software streams an application from a server in an organization's data center to a local PC as pieces of the application are needed. -- read full article
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
