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» 2007Dec 21, 2007
A false positive in company's antivirus products leads to quarantine or deletion of some Windows users' copies of explorer.exe. Windows Explorer, one of the most crucial components of Microsoft's operating system, was …
Tagged: security, microsoft windows, software, operating systems, antivirus, software flaws, viruses and worms, david meyer, cnet networks inc
Dec 20, 2007
Company posts fastest software sales growth in more than a decade; analysts say strong product lineup would help shield Oracle from an economic slowdown. Oracle posted a 35 percent rise in quarterly profit on strong …
Tagged: software, management, sales, reuters, analyst, utility computing, wall, sales strategy, oracle corp, tools and techniques, sales force management
Dec 18, 2007
Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith says policymakers and the public risk drawing the wrong lessons from recent patent controversies. Samuel Johnson famously quipped that the prospect of death by hanging helps to …
Tagged: innovation, software, management, patent, intellectual property, microsoft corp, research and development, abolition, business operations, brad smith, patent litigation, tools and techniques, corporate and legal, patent system
Dec 18, 2007
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Silicon Valley would do well to borrow a page from the history of the antiapartheid struggle. I've always looked forward to April, with its promise of spring punctuated by the …
Tagged: software, management, strategy, government, china, politics and government, silicon valley, u s, industry, enterprise software, fact, google inc, yahoo inc, news com, charles cooper, cisco systems inc, vertical industries
Dec 18, 2007
Software maker gives a fiscal first-quarter forecast above Wall Street expectations, but investors are concerned sales growth could be hitting a peak. Adobe Systems posted a 21 percent rise in fourth-quarter net income …
Tagged: software, sales, applications, finance, reuters, investor, sales strategy, financial accounting, sales force management, adobe systems inc
Dec 13, 2007
SWsoft* has just issued an announcement that it has changed its name to Parallels. It is not at all uncommon for a company having a successful product, such as Parallels, a virtual machine software product, to take on …
Tagged: virtualization, software, management, virtual machine, swsoft, tools and techniques, dan kusnetzky
Dec 13, 2007
Suit also alleges that PSI, a maker of servers that run IBM's mainframe software, has broken a customer agreement. IBM has sued Platform Solutions, which aims to sell servers that will run software designed for Big …
Tagged: hardware, software, server, mainframe, servers, psi, mainframes, ibm corp, corporate and legal, stephen shankland
Dec 13, 2007
Browser maker files first complaint to the European Commission since Microsoft lost a landmark antitrust case earlier this year. Opera Software, the small Norwegian maker of Web browsers, has filed the first complaint …
Tagged: internet, microsoft windows, software, operating systems, complaint, reuters, antitrust, microsoft corp, web browser, opera software, web browsers, business operations, corporate law, corporate and legal
Dec 11, 2007
Brown University undergraduates unveil La Bastille, a 14-story-tall version of video game Tetris displayed on the side of the Sciences Library. It's probably the largest Linux installation in the world. Sort of. Last …
Tagged: games, software, linux, open source, operating systems, game, personal technology, brown university, stephen shankland
Dec 11, 2007
Developed at the University of Washington, with contributions from mathematicians worldwide, Sage is a relatively new open-source tool designed to supplant proprietary mathematical analysis programs like Maple, Matlab …
Tagged: software development, web development, software, programming languages, management, development tools, notebook, python, theory, sage, scripting languages, tools and techniques, christopher dawson, software web development