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The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet’s next big competition. SEATTLE–As the world’s best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet’s next big competition….
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Bill Gates told a Hong Kong gathering that society will need more explicit rules governing privacy boundaries around software as the mobile/PC line blurs. As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose “an interesting software challenge”, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software…
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As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company’s responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off…
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Today’s business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business’s thirst for more information says Commentary–A recent Gartner report predicts that IT?s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench…
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Secure Computing’s Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. ?In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid…
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Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company. Redmond, Washington–Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft, the software maker he built into the world’s most valuable technology company based on the ambitious…
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Five-person LimitNone is suing Google for almost a billion dollars alleging that the company’s business software unit copied a tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google’s. SAN FRANCISCO–Google was named on Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company’s business software unit copied a…
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Nokia will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based Symbian and make its software open source to boost phone sales and respond to new rivals such as Google. HELSINKI–Nokia will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based Symbian and make its software royalty-free to boost…
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Laura Bennett, senior engineering manager at IBM’s software development community, discusses how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical products. Semantic Web, rapid application development, data visualization, and health care applications are just some of the emerging software types being investigated by IBM’s AlphaWorks…
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Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for…
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Ubuntu users can now get access to Parallels Workstation for Linux via the operating system’s built-in update tool. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step designed to…
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Tuesday’s introduction of new versions of Web-based e-mail programs that compete with Outlook offer yet another clue why Microsoft made the bid for Yahoo. Business software units of Yahoo and Google are introducing beefed-up versions of their Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook, offering yet another clue…
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Sales growth expected to continue but slow down as company integrates Business Objects; further acquisitions not ruled out. SAP forecast sales growth and higher margins on Wednesday despite a volatile wider economy, but the software maker gave a conservative outlook for 2008 as it expands into new markets….
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Alliance would be yet another aimed at more-efficient production and distribution of LCD televisions. Japanese consumer electronics makers Victor Co. of Japan and Funai Electric will jointly develop and supply LCD television sets, an industry source said on Tuesday. The news pushed up shares of both companies,…
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Big Blue expects the acquisition will expand its business-event processing software portfolio. IBM said on Wednesday it is buying privately held AptSoft to expand its business-event processing software portfolio. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. IBM, the world’s largest computer services company, said AptSoft’s technology…
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Software maker buys Calista Technologies, broadens partnership with Citrix in aim to better compete with virtualization leader. Microsoft has acquired a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems, targeting VMware’s early lead in virtualization technology. Microsoft unveiled the news on Monday as part…
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The product, code-named Atlantic, will let users access SAP’s Business Suite applications for work flows, reporting and analytics through IBM’s Lotus Notes. Services and software companies IBM and SAP, longtime technology partners, will bring out their first joint software product in the fourth quarter of this year, the…
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Funding round highlights the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook’s wave of popularity. Social-network software maker Slide said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook’s wave of popularity. Slide, a 65-employee company…
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