NewsFactor - Years ago, the Linux open-source operating system seemed ready to offer a nonproprietary alternative to Microsoft Windows. But "Linux on the desktop" never took off. -- read full article
AP - Caliper Life Sciences Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter loss widened on lower licensing revenue from its drug-development software programs. -- read full article
AP - Educational software company Blackboard Inc. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit declined even as sales grew, as expenses increased. -- read full article
AP - Educational software company Blackboard Inc. said Wednesday it expects third-quarter results in the range of a loss of 2 cents per share to a profit of 2 cents per share. -- read full article
Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to
buy back as much as $20 billion of its stock to boost its
flagging share price, Bloomberg News quoted a top-rated
software analyst as saying.
PC Magazine - Microsoft has confirmed that the "Midori" operating system is an "incubation project," without confirming whether it actually will be a commercial product or part of the Windows family. -- read full article
USATODAY.com - He goes by the nickname A-Z and is one of Russia's bright young tech stars. He's a crack programmer, successful entrepreneur and creator of sophisticated software tools that help his customers make millions. -- read full article
NewsFactor - iPhone owners planning to add the newly available 2.0.1 software update need to be careful or they could end up with a dud. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Microsoft plans to share early information about its monthly Patch Tuesday updates with security software providers, partners, customers and public organizations. -- read full article
AP - Quest Software Inc., which makes software used to manage programs and data over networks and the Internet, said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose slightly though it missed analyst expectations. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Patent and Trademark Office's recent narrowing of what qualifies as a patentable software innovation may help Google in this case but could harm the Internet giant in other lawsuits. -- read full article
AP - In an Aug. 3 story about automated linking programs on the Internet, The Associated Press erroneously described what happened when Yahoo's Shortcuts software tagged the phrase "underage girls" in a news item. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Call it the great multicore discord: a parade of major hardware and software vendors promising desktop applications powered by multicore chips yet all marching out of step, leaving confused software developers in the dust -- but times are changing. -- read full article
USATODAY.com - Game developer id Software has begun working on the next Doom game, Pierce Brosnan is stealing away for another Affair, and Sarah McLachlan will be out with a Best of CD in October. -- read full article
