PC World - Acer's Aspire one netbook combines excellent software, great screen quality and typing pad with a price that makes it tough to... -- read full article
Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Saturday rejected a
proposal to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp and hand
over the remainder of the company to activist investor Carl
Icahn.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - We put the Apple's iPhone 2.0 software through its paces, along with a half-dozen top apps. Despite a couple of bugs, the new software makes a great phone even better and gives first-generation iPhones and the iPod Touch an extreme gadget makeover. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Web monitoring firm Pingdom says Windows Update was up 100% of the time in the second quarter, Apple's Software Update was up 99.9% of the time, and Ubuntu was up 98.64% of the time. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Cobol tools provider Micro Focus on Friday announced its acquisition of Liant Software for $5 million, adding PL/I and modernization capabilities to the Micro Focus fold. -- read full article
PC World - The latest iPhone operating system update makes the device usable in enterprises by adding better networked security options and global configuration profiles. -- read full article
PC World - Researchers at IBM's Almaden labs have developed software that lets you created slimmed-down versions of Web sites for mobile... -- read full article
AP - The launch of Apple Inc.'s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.
PC World - Software compatibility problems marred the launch of the iPhone 3G at Apple's flagship store in London, where customers had... -- read full article
USATODAY.com - Apple CEO Steve Jobs expected to launch his App Store - the online venue for third-party iPhone and iPod Touch applications - with 200 software offerings; he ended up with more than 500. -- read full article
AP - The launch of Apple Inc.'s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Oracle is the first major business software vendor to make iPhone apps available at Apple's new App Store. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The open source operating system will be combine elements of the Symbian OS with Nokia's S60, DoCoMo MOAP, and UIQ to create an open mobile software platform. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The final service pack for the retired Windows XP operating system was pushed out to users who haven't yet downloaded the update, first released in May. -- read full article
