http://marketpublishers.com/lists/news_64.html Software & Services news en-us 2008-12-02 15:43:13 GMT 2008-12-02 15:43:13 GMT http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3761/news.html Electronic Arts, the video game maker, said that it was lowering its profit forecast, cutting 6 percent of its work force and moving more jobs outside the United States, signs that it is struggling to complete a financial turnaround. ... 31.10.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3551/news.html Shares of Microsoft Corp. advanced Monday after the company unveiled a $40 billion buyback, but lost many of their earlier gains as the rest of the tech sector retreated with the broader market. Microsoft was up more than 2% earlier in the... 23.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3473/news.html Microsoft has made its virtualisation hypervisor Hyper-V available as a free product. The software, which will be downloadable from Microsoft's website will be available within 30 days. In a flurry of announcements, cheekily timed just... 08.09.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3211/news.html Mozilla is claiming a download record for the release of Firefox 3.0, reported The BBC. In the first 24 hours the web browser was available the software was downloaded more than eight million times, says its creator Mozilla. ... 19.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3198/news.html Version 3 of the popular Firefox web browser is going on general release on 17 June, reported The BBC. Wide take-up of the new version would further boost the market share of the browser which is currently used by about 15% of net users.... 17.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3162/news.html Four countries have appealed a decision to fast-track the international standardisation of a Microsoft document format, called OpenXML, reported The BBC. Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela have complained that there was not enough... 11.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3120/news.html Adobe has made a move into online document sharing with the launch of the Acrobat.com community site, reported The BBC. It allows people to create, store and share documents online, and hold web conferences to discuss changes. It was... 03.06.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3101/news.html Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch features as an alternative to the mouse, reported The BBC. It is hoped the successor will have a better reception than the much-maligned Vista OS, released last year. ... 28.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3064/news.html Microsoft is offering "cold, hard cash" to persuade users to shop online using its Live Search engine and help the company catch up to rival Google, reported The BBC. The savings range between 2% and 30% on products sold by select... 22.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3036/news.html For the first time in three years the amount of pirated business software on UK computers has fallen, reported The BBC. The Business Software Alliance's (BSA) annual survey shows a 1% drop in UK piracy rates to 26%. The fall comes... 15.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/3022/news.html Microsoft is cutting the cost of putting Windows XP on low cost laptops, reported The BBC. The price cuts will only be available for ultra-portable laptops that meet a strict set of specifications. The move is widely seen as an... 13.05.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2992/news.html PC makers are finding ways to keep selling Windows XP despite Microsoft efforts to remove it from sale, reported The BBC. Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes in Microsoft's licensing terms to extend the operating system beyond a 30... 29.04.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2977/news.html Developers have questioned the commitment to openness in Microsoft's Live Mesh service, which is designed to bridge the offline and online worlds, reported The BBC. The company's new service, that will synch all of a user's devices and... 24.04.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2959/news.html Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools, reported The BBC. Over half of the companies in North America and Europe see Web 2.0 as a priority for next... 22.04.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2951/news.html The public perception of open source software is changing fast, said Mark Shuttleworth, who leads distribution of the Ubuntu operating system (OS), reported The BBC. A new version of Ubuntu, a version of the Linux OS, is released on... 21.04.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2897/news.html Microsoft boss Bill Gates has dropped a hint about the next version of Windows, reported The BBC. He said Windows 7 could be released "sometime in the next year or so" during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Inter-American... 07.04.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2785/news.html Microsoft has released a service update for all versions of its Windows Vista operating system, reported The BBC. The computer giant claims that the update improves the stability, security and performance of the software. The update,... 21.03.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2751/news.html Yahoo has announced its adoption of some of the key standards of the "semantic web", reported The BBC. The technology is widely seen as the next step for the world wide web and it involves a much richer understanding of the masses... 17.03.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2673/news.html Microsoft has said it plans to cut the cost of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets, reported The BBC. Although no exact date has yet been given, Microsoft said price cuts would be introduced in 70 countries. In... 04.03.2008 http://marketpublishers.com/lists/2652/news.html A virtual desktop aimed at users who access the web via cybercafes is attracting interest from organisations set up to bridge the digital divide, reported The BBC. Offered by Luxembourgh-based start-up Jooce, it is being billed as a way of... 28.02.2008