Reuters - Alcatel-Lucent lost a fight to win back a $1.5 billion award against Microsoft Corp when an appeals court ruled Thursday in favor of the software giant in a battle over patents to digitize music. -- read full article
Reuters - Oracle Corp moved to reassure investors that its business management software unit is healthy, even after sales dropped sharply in its most-recent quarter, telling investors it will catch up with bigger rival SAP AG . -- read full article
AP - Visa Inc. said Thursday it's developing mobile payment software for the new wireless phone powered by Google Inc.'s Android system. -- read full article
AFP - Google has released a kit for software developers to create fun, hip or functional programs for the "G-phone" due out next month in a direct challenge to Apple's hot-selling iPhone.
Reuters - U.S. technology company Synaptics has won a deal to provide touchscreen sensors and chips for the first phone model using Google's Android software, a Synaptics spokeswoman said on Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received an $11.1 million pay package in the server and software maker's most recent fiscal year. -- read full article
AP - Oracle Corp. is selling computer hardware for the first time in its 31-year history, signaling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software.
Reuters - Oracle Corp , the world's No. 3 software maker is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Co to sell powerful, specialized computers that companies use to analyze data on their business activities.
AFP - Longtime business software giant Oracle has announced it is diving headlong into the computer hardware business with a brainier, brawnier machine crafted to manage the explosion of digital data.
PC Magazine - Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that several services currently found within Windows XP and Windows Vista will be dropped for Windows 7, and replaced with similar versions of its Live services. -- read full article
Reuters - Sony Ericsson is studying Google's Android mobile operating system, but was not able to embrace it yet, President Dick Komiyama said on Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received an $11.1 million pay package in the server and software maker's most recent fiscal year. -- read full article
AFP - Internet search giant Google launched its long-awaited mobile phone on Tuesday, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with rival Apple's hot-selling iPhone.
Reuters - T-Mobile has rolled out Google's answer to the iPhone as the Web search giant makes its biggest stab yet at leaping from consumers' computers into their pockets with a device cheaper than rival Apple offers.
Reuters - Google and Yahoo's deal to let Google place some ads on Yahoo's search pages, which the Justice Department is reviewing, should be allowed with limits, the American Antitrust Institute said on Tuesday. Because the search advertising market is already extremely concentrated with Google by far the dominant firm, the institute argued that consumers would be best served if No. 2 Yahoo remained independent. -- read full article
