Reuters - Google Inc was named on Monday in
a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business
software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving
customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.
AP - Nokia Corp. is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software providers. -- read full article
NewsFactor - On Tuesday, Nokia made a cash offer to acquire the 52 percent of Symbian it doesn't already own. Nokia is willing to pay $410 million for the mobile-platform software found on most cell phones today. -- read full article
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) will pay $410 million
for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker
Symbian and make its software royalty-free to boost phone sales
and respond to new rivals such as Google .
Reuters - Microsoft Corp was
criticized on Tuesday for being slow to resolve problems in the
technical documentation it was required to provide to rival
software makers as part of its 2001 antitrust settlement.
AFP - Finnish mobile telephone giant Nokia said on Tuesday it will take full control of Symbian, a London-based software group, buying out the other shareholders for 264 million euros.
Reuters - Mobile phones under development
by Google Inc and its partners face slipping delivery
schedules, with the first phones not likely to arrive until
late 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A British tech magazine loves the software but won't recommend it because the version on sale in the United Kingdom costs much more than the U.S. version. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Phones running Google's open source operating system will be delayed until at least the fourth quarter. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The court-mandated committee overseeing Microsoft's compliance with a federal antitrust settlement said the software company broke a pact when it removed some information. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The computer maker will accept orders for PCs with the older Microsoft operating system until June 26. -- read full article
Reuters - Google Inc was named on Monday in
a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business
software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving
customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.
