AP - In a nod to how finicky people have become about the gadgets they use, software company Citrix Systems Inc. is rolling out a new program for its workers: BYOC — Bring Your Own Computer.
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.
