InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems is counting on the ubiquitous nature of Java to help its JavaFX technology compete in the rich Internet application (RIA) space against rivals Adobe Systems and Microsoft. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Automatic updates for Microsoft Office 2007 service pack (SP1) will start hitting customers' computers via Microsoft Update on June 16, Microsoft said Thursday night. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft said on Friday it was appealing a record $1.39 billion fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices to discourage software competition. -- read full article
Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc
said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean"
director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of
"BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone
disastrously wrong.
Reuters - Microsoft said on Friday it
was appealing against a record 899 million euro ($1.39 billion)
fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices
to discourage software competition.
PC World - Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The devices with fake Microsoft Windows logos are just the latest in a series of goods seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The strategy of rolling out service packs in phases gives the market plenty of time to evaluate the software. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The price for CodeGear, the business unit of Borland that offers software development tools, is $23 million. -- read full article
Reuters - Pierre Avignon is no pirate, but he does
not believe in paying for software. His computer is filled with
programs like Symphony -- a free suite that he downloaded from
an International Business Machines Corp website
(http://symphony.lotus.com).
AP - Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into a Google-killer.
NewsFactor - Since its release on April 29, global sales of the Grand Theft Auto 'GTA IV' video game from Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO) have surpassed six million units, with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million in the first week. Over the first day alone, GTA IV sales were approximately 3.6 million units with a retail value of $310 million worldwide. -- read full article
