The News Review:
- Skype is in danger owner says
- Following the Money: Rogue Anti-virus Software
- Software Vendors Scooping Up SaaS Players
- ‘Last Lecture’ prof’s program to be updated
- When Jay-Z Hates Your Software
- Are P2P Networks Sharing Your Private Data?
- SAP Ups 09 p Margin utlook 2Q Net Profit Up 4%
Skype is in danger owner says
Christian Science Monitor
At issue is a key piece of software code licensed to Skype by a company called Joltid. For months Joltid and Skype have been scrapping over the legal rights to the code ? and now the battle has gotten serious enough that eBay which owns Skype is getting worried. If Skype loses the right to the software code “Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible” eBay.
Following the Money: Rogue Anti-virus Software
Washington Post
The warnings usually mimic Microsoft software or the operating system itself and persist until the victim figures out how to remove it or pays for a license to the software. “The product names have changed from one to another but that innovagest2000. com domain has been associated with the rogue [software] families since it was registered in 2005″ including rogue anti-virus programs said Patrick Jordan a senior spyware researcher for Clearwater Fla.
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Software Vendors Scooping Up SaaS Players
ChannelWeb
body” valueishtml> –>If you can’t build it buy it. It’s a phrase that may be heard a lot more this year in the MSP and Software-as-a-Service markets as larger. McAfee grabbed headlines Thursday by unveiling a deal to buy MX Logic and two days before that GFI Software a London-based security vendor bought Hound Dog Technology a U.
‘Last Lecture’ prof’s program to be updated
The Associated Press
The Alice software overseen by late computer science professor Randy Pausch (PWSCH) is expected to debut next week. Pausch died last July 10 months after giving his “last lecture” on life lessons that became an Internet sensation and led to him write his best-selling book. The software allows users to create 3D animations by selecting character objects and scenes from the popular video game “The Sims” to make and control virtual worlds. University officials say hundreds of colleges and numerous middle- and high schools use the software to teach programming skills.
When Jay-Z Hates Your Software
New York Times
Auto-Tune a software package made by. Jay-Z?s latest single.
Are P2P Networks Sharing Your Private Data?
PC Magazine
Edolphus Towns chairman of the Committee on versight and Reform said in a statement. “For our sensitive government information the risk is simply too great to ignore. I am planning to introduce a bill to ban this type of insecure open network peer-to-peer software from all government and contractor computers and networks. Towns’ remarks came after his panel held a hearing on inadvertent file sharing over P2P networks which featured Mark Gorton chief executive of LimeWire as a witness. Gorton first appeared before the committee in July 2007 at which point he.
SAP Ups 09 p Margin utlook 2Q Net Profit Up 4%
Wall Street Journal
) FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)–Business software company SAP AG (SAP) Wednesday raised its full-year 2009 operating margin guidance due to costs savings as second-quarter earnings beat market expectations but cut its software and software-related services revenue outlook. The company now expects a currency neutral non-GAAP operating margin of 25. 5%-27% up from previous guidance of 24. 5% including restructuring costs but excluding charges related to the acquisition of France’s Business bjects last year.