Latest Software News
- 24 May 2012
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News: Mac app developer sells 6,700 copies of app in a day
If you are looking for a way to make your Mac application stand out from the 10,000-plus apps on the Mac App Store, a well publicised price cut may well do the trick.
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News: Linux Mint 13 rallies behind Gnome
With the new version of Linux Mint, released Wednesday, the developers behind the open source Linux distribution have put all energies behind Gnome, offering two versions of the desktop interface.
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News: Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial
During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.
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News: Yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build Yahoo-signed Chrome extensions
Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo's name.
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News: Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches
More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.
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News: Android, Apple Own 80% of Global Smartphone Market: Microsoft's Share, 2.2%
What a difference a year makes in the booming smartphone market.
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News: iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped
Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.
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News: Windows 8 to Run Adobe Flash Only on Some Websites
The touch-centric Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 is plug-in free, but the browser may still be able to run Adobe Flash video, according to an online report. Microsoft is reportedly taking the Google Chrome approach with IE10 and building Flash capability directly into the touch-friendly browser. But Flash won't be available for every site on the Web in Metro IE10. Instead, Microsoft will only extend the capability to select popular sites, according to Windows bloggers Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera.
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News: Are CEOs getting the social media thing?
IBM says a study it did of some 1,700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be -- grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.
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News: Confidential data: Delete it or eat it, say security experts
Hoarding sensitive information is easy and inexpensive, but as the collected information grows, so do the risks
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News: NASA and cybersecurity: Ground control to Major Tom?
Latest claimed attack by Iranian students piles on to 47 attacks in fiscal year 2011, with 13 compromising the agency's computers
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News: Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software
Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.
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News: Spotify deploys Salesforce Rypple for social enterprise
Digital music service Spotify is using employee performance management software from Salesforce.com to drive engagement within the company and make giving feedback more social.
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News: Sony gives Tablet S and P an Ice Cream Sandwich update
Sony has announced that UK Tablet S and Tablet P users will get an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich this month.
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News: McLaren CIO uses SAP's HANA to scale back on expensive PhDs
McLaren CIO Stuart Birrell has said that he is using SAP’s in-memory HANA technology to try and scale back on using “expensive PhD” skills within the group’s Formula 1 teams.
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News: Yahoo Axis syncs browsing between iOS and desktop
Yahoo is rolling out Axis, a new searching and browsing tool that syncs between your Web browser of choice and your iOS devices.
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News: Microsoft Office for iOS and Android May Arrive This Fall
Microsoft appears to be closing in on a release of Microsoft Office for both iOS and Android this fall, despite previous denials.
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News: Remains of the Day: Losers, weepers
Samsung and Apple can't find a compromise, IBM employees lose out on Siri, and Jony Ive tears up about Apple's next great product. The remainders for Wednesday, May 23, 2012 can't win for losing.
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News: Searches go full-screen in update to Google's iOS app
Google has gone big with the changes in the latest version of its mobile search app for iOS, starting with full-screen searches and views for the iPhone. Other changes introduced in Google Search 2.0.0 Wednesday include speed improvements, an enhanced yet simplified user interface, and gesture tweaks for easy navigation.
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News: Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app
Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.
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