Piracy problem sails to rural China
While software piracy dropped in 11 Asian countries, an increase in PCs shipped with pirated applications in China has kept numbers up, study finds.
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SK Telecom invests in Chinese game developer
South Korean Telecom company invests US$30 million in Qu Wei Di Yi for them to expand into the international market.
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Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability
Security researcher says Apple is uninterested in fixing glitch that could download malware to the desktop but will fix a separate high-risk security issue in the browser.
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Microsoft limits XP subnotebook specs
Reports suggest XP is being offered at a discounted rate to makers of low-cost subnotebooks, but only if they agree to limit the devices' hardware specs.
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Microsoft blames users for Vista infections
In countering claims that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000, Microsoft says the 'complacency' of users is to blame for infection rates.
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Pirates cost software industry US$48B
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Microsoft gives away stargazed view from Hubble
Microsoft launches its WorldWide Telescope, a free Web-based program that allows Web surfers to explore the starry skies about.
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Closing the door to Microsoft Vista
A number of companies are opting not to embrace Redmond's latest operating system and, like General Motors, are waiting for Windows 7 instead.
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Beijing Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze
As the Olympics draws near, the technical team says no more changes to the software infrastructure and looks set to be operationally ready.
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UK should 'abandon' software market to China
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Windows Server 2008 goes down-market
Company to offer public preview for Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Server Solutions 2008, both based on mainstream server release from earlier this year.
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Mac Office sales soar on Apple's gains
Microsoft's Mac unit is set to announce that the new version of Office is selling three times as many copies as its predecessor.
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Ultra-low-cost XP support not fully determined
Owners of ultra-low-cost PCs running on Windows XP may not be able to go to their device makers for support after OS availability ends in 2010.
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Microsoft says YouTube blocking was a glitch
Software maker says third party that handles blocking of Web links made a mistake that led to some addresses being blocked.
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BSD bug found and fixed after 25 years
A Unix developer has discovered a bug in the BSD operating system that has been passed down to all its variants, including OpenBSD and Mac OS X.
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Kingsoft not lost in translation with Google's Chinese software
The two join forces on the Google Kingsoft Powerword, a Web-based dictionary that touts new features and Google technology.
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Skype agrees to obey GPL
The company has abandoned its appeal against a German ruling that it must supply source code with Linux-based VoIP phones, in compliance with GPLv2.
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Sun and Liferay launch Web-presentation platform
The collaboration aims to provide developers with Web-presentation capabilities for GlassFish, Sun's open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition application server.
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Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
Company wants the world to take up its software-as-a-service model, and company president Marc Benioff says he will 'change the consciousness of the industry' to do it.
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Microsoft sets up R&D center in China
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