Software Development

In Brief: BEA boosts data access technology with Microsoft support

Police computer spreads dragnet across the U.K.

Heavily used PNC provides online access to all police systems

Sage makes offer for Norwegian software company

Sage Group to buy business-management software vendor for $585M

IBM expanding SOA governance offerings

Company believes SOA governance has been defined too narrowly as managing of services in a registry

Yahoo delivers Net phone feature in U.S. IM client

Yahoo Messenger takes on Skype by letting users dial out to phones from the IM interface

Study: Computing and natural sciences to merge

Microsoft donates $3M to research to tap software opportunities created by new kinds of science

Microsoft tries again to placate the EU

Microsoft offers free, unlimited support to those who license its workgroup server protocols

Study: E-mail customer support deteriorates

JupiterResearch finds response times to customer e-mail inquiries have worsened

Update: Windows Vista release pushed back to January 2007

Microsoft will release Vista to business partners in November

Report identifies Kazaa, SpyAxe as ‘badware’

StopBadware.org releases its first report identifying four programs as badware