NewsFactor - In a major shift in its approach to the open-source community and intellectual property, Microsoft announced Thursday four broad principles for openness and interoperability. Read more…
AFP - Microsoft is increasing the openness of its software to appease antitrust regulators and please businesses trending toward more diverse computer systems. Read more…
TechWeb - Open source advocates downplay Microsoft's latest move to release previously confidential data on its applications and protocols. Read more…
TechWeb - New features in Greenplum 3, which is based on the PostgreSQL open source database, includes parallel loading in excess of 3.5 terabytes per hour. Read more…
InfoWorld - Microsoft made a mountainous down payment on its high-profile pledge Thursday to improve interoperability and? warm up its relationship with the open source community, releasing some 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols. After digesting the news and at least some of the documentation, the reaction within the open source community was varied, ranging from cautious praise to outright scorn. Read more…
PC World - The European Commission gave a guarded welcome to Microsoft's pledge on Thursday for "greater transparency" in its development and business practices. Read more…
PC World - Microsoft's pledge to improve interoperability between its products and open-source applications drew mixed reaction from the open-source community. Read more…
Reuters - U.S. video game giant Electronic Arts on Sunday said it had made an unsolicited $1.9 billion offer for "Grand Theft Auto" publisher Take-Two Interactive Software , escalating its battle with Activision for the title of biggest video game maker. Read more…
PC World - Startup Metaram has developed a technique to pack more RAM onto a memory module, for more speed and capability. Read more…
FT.com - International mobile telecoms producers such as Nokia will be big beneficiaries of an expected overhaul of the Chinese telecoms industry, said Colin Giles, Nokia's president for Greater China. Read more…
Reuters - Pioneer Corp will stop making 42-inch plasma panels and instead buy panels in that size and smaller from Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial or Hitachi Ltd to turn around its loss-making flat TV business, the Asahi newspaper said. Read more…
AP - Sometimes, a photo is simply too good to be true. Tiny details in an image, for instance, may be too similar to have occurred naturally, suggesting a cut-and-paste maneuver. Or the color patterns may be too "normal" ?— beyond the limitations of sensors on digital cameras. Read more…
AP - Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray. Read more…
AP - AT&T Inc. is partnering with Tennessee to provide the country's first statewide system to electronically exchange patient medical information, the telecommunications company said Monday. Read more…
TechWeb - Propel's PBM release helps shape a PC's Internet activity and gives higher priority to more time-sensitive traffic such as VoIP and gaming. Read more…
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology in an effort to make it work better with rivals' software and meet the demands of antitrust regulators in Europe. Read more…
TechWeb - If the chips are kept at low temperatures, residual data can easily be recovered, researchers found. Read more…
Reuters - Microsoft Corp, faced with regulatory concerns in Europe and customers struggling with complex computer systems, said on Thursday it would publish critical information so rival programs can work better with Windows, Office and other major products. Read more…
USATODAY.com - SEATTLE - Microsoft has announced that it will share some of its trade secrets to improve the ability of its products to work with other software. Read more…
InfoWorld - Storage giant EMC continues to push into the consumer territory: Its latest move is to acquire Pi, a company whose software and services will help users keep track of their personal data. Read more…
NewsFactor - New Web-based solutions from Symantec aim to make it easy for small and midsize businesses to back up data and be prepared for disaster. Symantec Online Backup and Symantec Online Storage for Backup Exec join recent enterprise offerings from EMC and CommVault that use software as a service (SaaS) to simplify backup. Read more…
AFP - Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said Friday it is offering a software tool that lets people use Google to scan websites for security flaws. Read more…
TechWeb - Software titles most pirated by companies last year include Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Adobe Acrobat, Autodesk AutoCAD, Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator, and others. Read more…
TechWeb - The software may also be used to move workloads around, allowing for some of the servers to undergo downtime for maintenance, without disrupting database applications. Read more…
TechWeb - Appeals court agrees to re-examine "business method" patents Read more…
