S'pore to host region's largest OSS conference
Country will play host next year to the largest open source software conference yet to be held in Southeast Asia, says event organizer.
Firefox 3 earns Guinness World Record
Mozilla's browser has entered the book of Guinness World Records for the most downloads from a Web site in a 24-hour period.
Samba 3.2 adds cluster support
The file and print server software has received a major update, adding clustered file system support, compatibility tweaks and other improvements.
Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
The latest version of Adobe's free PDF-reading software, which plays movies and animation for the first time, is available.
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard
The PDF (portable document format) gets ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certification as a new standard.
Xandros to swallow Linspire
The company that once raised Microsoft's ire with its Linux-based Lindows operating system is being purchased by another of the smaller Linux players.
Microsoft adds licensing option for businesses
The "Select Plus" option, which becomes available this fall, is targeted at midsize firms that may have found the "Select" program too restrictive.
Adobe to help reveal 'invisible' Flash Web content
It gives Google and Yahoo technology to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications.
Microsoft's Plan B for search
Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is eyeing semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google.
Barclays gives online users free security software
The investment bank's two million online banking customers can download for free the security package from Kaspersky.
Weighing the ideal mini-notebook OS
Small-form factor notebook makers need to look at the business case to determine the appropriate operating system, says analyst.
Companies consider extended support for XP
update With mainstream support for Windows XP ending next year, more companies may opt to pay for extended support that will last till 2014, over migrating to Vista.
Philippine software group eyes US market
The industry association will pitch select Philippine software to potential clients in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose this month.
Apple updates Leopard to 10.5.4
The latest version of Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is ready for installation, with fixes to applications like iCal and a few security-related updates.
Microsoft trying to live up to interoperability pledge
Company announces incremental steps, improving documentation and collaborating with others to create more translators to convert Office files into other formats.
Microsoft's Gates: Bye, see you next week
BusinessWeek talks to Bill Gates as his "final" day at Microsoft approaches.
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
Mark Shuttleworth has called for Ubuntu developers to accept responsibility for all flaws in the OS's code, including those in 'upstream' source code.
XP is dead; long live XP
news analysis Windows XP was supposed to be discontinued on Monday, but a series of concessions by Microsoft have ensured that is no longer the case.
Oracle sees solid growth for its fourth quarter
Enterprise software maker reports revenue of US$7.24 billion, boosted by a strong performance in software licensing.
Microsoft plans to release hypervisor
The software maker has completed a final version of its Hyper-V technology, which is designed to handle virtualization tasks and competes with VMware.
Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade
In another blow to the maligned operating system, Intel plans to skip a wide-scale Vista deployment, according to two reports.
Canonical unveils developer edition of mobile Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu's commercial sponsor has released the first publicly available developer edition of the Linux distribution for mobile Internet devices.
US judge: Microsoft must release Windows details
U.S. federal judge presiding over Microsoft's antitrust case wants the company to cough up more details on how its software programs work together, according to a report.
Adobe says Acrobat 9 is good to go
In combination with the new Acrobat.com service, Acrobat 9 lets multiple users collaborate in real-time online to share documents.
Google faces US$1B damages in trade-secret lawsuit
Filing says Google purloined secrets from erstwhile partner, LimitNone, which sold a product that helps customers move data from Microsoft Outlook to Google Apps.
SAP chief: Big software isn't going away
Web-based business software sold by companies like Salesforce.com will likely augment, not replace, complex enterprise systems, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann says.
Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
news analysis Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft chairman on June 27, effectively ending his day-to-day involvement with the company.
Sun: We screwed up on open source
Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, says the company alienated open source developers from 2001 to 2002 but is now healing the rift.
Salesforce extends Google link with new toolkit
The toolkit is designed to let developers using the Force.com platform, a cloud computing service for building hosted Web software, connect to data in Google Apps.
Oracle to acquire Skywire Software
Software company sees its latest purchase of a market application specialist as a way to expand its customer base in the "strategic industry" of insurance management.
BEA bears the brunt as Oracle hikes prices
Oracle has made significant increases to prices across its portfolio, and particularly in relation to BEA software.
Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML
The company has admitted it had no experience or specific personnel dedicated to software standards prior to getting OOXML approved by the ISO.
Organized e-crime targets students for recruitment
Criminals moving from more traditional to online crime are recruiting from universities and security conferences, according to police and security sources.
Sun: Java will be free this year
The struggle to open up Java completely is finally coming to an end.
Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor
The company claims it will continue to support the Xen virtualization project, despite working on an alternative method that is integrated with the Linux kernel.
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