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Two companies settle software copyright claims

TruStile Doors and Sentage have settled with the Business Software Alliance and agreed to pay fines for their use of unlicensed software

Android comes to life in Barcelona

Several chip companies are showing proof-of-concept phones running Google's Android mobile software platform at the Mobile World Congress

Only in Japan: The best technologies you can’t buy

Cutting-edge technology on display in Japan include mobile digital TV, mobile wallets, IT-connected cars, and robots

Microsoft buys mobile software company Danger

As part of its push into the mobile sector, Microsoft has acquired Danger, the company that makes the software and services for T-Mobile's Sidekick

Daily news beat for Feb. 11, 2008

Netflix dumps HD DVD, opts for Blu-ray

Netflix says the industry has already picked Blu-ray as the winner in the battle of next-generation DVD superiority

Mobile Linux group snags members, launches phone fleet

5 things SOA vendors are missing

Forrester slashes global IT outlook

Market research firm still predicts increased IT spending in 2008, but has dropped its U.S. growth projection to 2.8 percent and its global forecast to 6 percent

Microsoft Office developer conference to get under way

Bill Gates to appear at the event, where Microsoft promoting its Office apps suite as app development platform

Microsoft steps up mobile consumer push

Microsoft releases a new app for delivering 'snippets' of data to Win Mobile devices, as well as an SDK that gives access to Microsoft mobile services protocols

Update: Yahoo says Microsoft offer undervalues company

Yahoo's latest moves mean Microsoft may have make a more generous offer or pursue a hostile takeover; Yahoo says its board will continue to evaluate other 'strategic options'

Cringe: Yahoo merely haggling over price with Microsoft

Nokia rolls out successor to N95 mobile phone

Nokia's N96 mobile phone features a slightly larger screen than the popular N95, as well as the upgraded Maps 2.0 mapping program

LiMo’s Linux phone platform picks up 18 phones

New LiMo phones announced from Motorola, LG Electronics, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, and others

On laptop searches and insecure borders

Attacks aimed at Adobe Reader, Acrobat flaws intensify

Problems with Adobe's software can potentially affect millions of PCs; users are advised to upgrade to the patched version

Samsung develops multimedia chip for smartphones

Samsung's new multimedia chip combines a 667MHz processor core with hardware acceleration for 3D graphics and video

Report: Motorola, Nortel in wireless infrastructure talks

Deal with Nortel would be separate from Motorola's consideration of spinning off its mobile handset business

Celltrust targets banks with encrypted SMS app

Text messages sent using Celltrust's SecureSMS cannot be read even if the phone is stolen

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Outfitting the iPhone for business

Report: Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft’s $44.6B buyout bid

Yahoo board reportedly has determined the offer 'massively undervalues' the online services company and puts Yahoo at business risk should the agreement not be approved

Tibco adds Eclipse, ESB to SOA platform

ActiveMatrix 2.0 platform for managing SOA to debut with expanded governance and integration capabilities

Trolltech enables easier mobile Web 2.0 apps

Trolltech integrates its QT platform with the WebKit browser technology to make it easier to build online components into mobile phone apps

‘White label’ social networking set for shake-up

Scores of vendors are now in the social-networking platform business and the market is ripe for some major acquisitions, according to Forrester Research

Review: Apple’s MacBook Air

Sony Ericsson to make Windows Mobile phone

Sony Ericsson moves away from the Symbian OS; its first phone using Windows Mobile will feature a touchscreen with a slide-out keyboard and a camera

Companies abandon LiPS for LiMo

More vendors uniting behind LiMo mobile phone platform could help to speed up the rate at which the companies can bring Linux-based devices to market

Red Hat, Ubuntu top vendor’s usage study

Windows users in CM vendor Alfresco's community reported Vista adoption was just 2 percent, compared to 63 percent for XP and 28 percent for Windows Server 2003

Android clicks to life at Mobile World Congress

Chip manufacturers anticipate Android phones in the second half of this year

Update: Microsoft responds to “Save XP” petition

Company says it will listen to customers, cites earlier XP extension

Dell moves most AMD consumer PCs offline to retail

Dell is keeping PCs with Intel processors for sale on its Web site while it opts to sell most models with AMD chips in its retail outlets

Facebook privacy chief: Data portability dangers overlooked

In an interview, Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, says the company is in favor of data portability in principle but frets about the security ramifications

SAS revs data-mining, forecasting tools

The updates provide greater functionality, including improved tools, algorithms, filtering, and scalability

Customers mismanaging access

While companies spend millions on stifling data leakage, they are largely doing a subpar job at watching the levels of access various employees have

Wall Street Beat: Cisco forecast weighs on sector

Nasdaq continues to drop, with leading tech companies reporting fewer bright spots and more recession fears

Microsoft’s price for Yahoo loses value

With dip in Microsoft's share price and rise in Yahoo's, Yahoo is potentially worth more than Microsoft's offer; potential takeover could be vulnerable to higher bids

Auditor’s report inconclusive on Florida undervote mishap

A series of tests on e-voting machines show that they are not the likely cause of uncounted ballots, but some experts wonder if the tests were thorough enough

Freescale CEO and chairman steps down

Michel Mayer has said he will leave the company as soon as a replacement can be found

WSO2 joining open-source SOA registry field

Web 2.0-style tagging, a Web-based interface, and governance capabilities are featured in the information storage and location tool

Beta testers got Vista SP1 RTM early

Angry IT professionals and developers call Microsoft's withholding of SP1 a 'slap in the face'

Ruby.Net set to continue

SugarCRM eyes a public offering

Interview: SugarCRM co-founder Clint Oram talks about the company's business model, rival Salesforce.com, and plans for the future

Alcatel-Lucent suffers Q4 loss on writedown

Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo warns that the company's growth over the next year is likely to be flat or just slightly up

Mozilla patches critical Firefox flaws

Mozilla issued 10 patches for its Firefox browser, including three for critical vulnerabilities

SaaS: The future wave of security

ARM to show off Android platform

At next week's Mobile World Congress ARM will demonstrate Google's Android on an early prototype device

Barclays turns U.S. call center over to Indian outsourcer

Barclays' credit card business in the U.S. signs a five-year deal worth as much as $80 million with Indian outsourcer Firstsource Solutions to run a call center in Colorado

Facebook kicks off international push en Español

Social networking site launches a Spanish version; German and French are promised for the coming weeks