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    IBM profit tops targets, forecast up (Reuters)

    In this April 16, 2008 file photo, the entrance to the IBM manufacturing plant in Essex Junction, Vt. is seen.  IBM reports quarterly earnings after the closing bell Thursday, July 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, file)Reuters - IBM reported a 22 percent rise in quarterly profit, blowing past Wall Street targets and raising its 2008 forecast, as emerging markets used its services, software and equipment to expand, and larger countries turned to technology to save money.


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    Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:09:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Microsoft 4Q profit rises; Web ad business rocky (AP)

    Teddy Copeland, 15, left, and Nicholas Sella, 14, work on an exercise using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to calculate interest rates at Camp Cash at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, June 20, 2008. The two-week camp was meant to teach kids money management skills. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)AP - With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape.


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    Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:14:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    U.S. video game sales seen up 53 percent in June (Reuters)
    Reuters - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago, with Konami Corp's "Metal Gear Solid 4" helping to fuel a dramatic increase in the number of Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 units sold, market researcher NPD reported on Thursday. -- read full article
    Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:21:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Blizzard Wins Big Legal Victory Upholding Software License Rules (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Blizzard decision, if allowed to stand, could diminish consumers' already limited ownership rights over the software they buy. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Dell Makes Multi-Touch Technology Available For Tablet PC (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - The software adds several two-finger operated features to the XT touch screen, including scrolling, zooming, and programmable double taps. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:46:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    EMC Enhances Mozy Online Storage Backup Service (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - Iomega hard drives will feature Mozy and Retrospect backup and recovery software and let users store large amounts of data online for $4.95 a month. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Apple Fixes App Store's Alphabetical Listing (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - Some developers had gamed the system by placing spaces or characters before the name of their software to achieve a higher placement on the list. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:07:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    SAP To Migrate Customers To More Expensive Support Service (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The software company plans to move customers from their current agreements to the new service's pricing model of 22% of license fees by 2012. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Review: Virtual Machine Software For The Desktop (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - Good morning. We need your help. We're looking to redesign this newsletter to make it a quicker read while giving you a better snapshot of our latest content, spanning media types. We want to make it easier to navigate and ensure it can get into your corporate e-mail account as easily as possible. In short, we want to make sure we deliver the best content and the best possible experience with the content. So I'm asking you to take a short survey. The goal is to establish a baseline and determine what you think of our current design, then give us feedback on a proposed new design. ... -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:10:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Microsoft Opens Live Mesh (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - The Live Mesh software/service is now available to all--okay, anyone with a Windows Live ID--as of today. It is currently limited to Windows users, but Mac and Linux are promised for the future. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:08:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Newspaper reports Microsoft, AOL continue talks (AP)
    AP - Executives from Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are trying to advance discussions on a possible combination that could give the software maker an alternative to a deal with Yahoo Inc., a newspaper reported Wednesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:58:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Web-based program gives the blind Internet access (AP)

    Lindsay Yazzolino, a Brown University student, demonstrates WebAnywhere, a new Web-based application developed by a computer science graduate student at the University of Washington that provides verbal feedback and enables blind people to use any Internet-connected computer, Friday, July 11, 2008, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Yazzolino, 19, from Issaquah, Wash., and who has a summer job at UW, has been totally blind since birth.  (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.


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    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:19:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    MobileMe Team Apologizes for Problems Updating Data (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - When Apple launched its MobileMe Web cloud software last Friday, customers ran into severe glitches. The subscription service is designed to synchronize calendars, e-mail and other applications between iPhones and Mac or Windows desktops, but users of the new service were unable to log in or sync files correctly. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:06:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Nintendo wins over outside game publishers with Wii (Reuters)
    Reuters - In the video game industry, the spoils of the console wars come in the form of support from third-party software publishers selling games to run on your machine. -- read full article
    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:34:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
    Iomega Combines Offline, Online Backup (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - Iomega on Wednesday announced a new software package that incorporates EMC Retrospect Express and Mozy online backup into a single downloadable bundle. -- read full article
    Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:06:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Software News
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