Software

As the dust starts to settle on news of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility on Monday, the question now being asked is whether the deal will pass muster …

With news on Monday that Google Inc. had made a $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility, many posited the move was a play for patents to shore up the software giant’s …

A lot of noise was made last week about Nintendo getting pressured by investors to bring its games to the iOS platform. It’s pretty clear that the market for stand-alone portable gaming devices is toast, and Nintendo needs to make some tough (ego-shattering) choices.

The New York Times | July 24, 2011 | Kevin O’Brien When the founders of Shutl, a British courier service that makes deliveries in 90 minutes in busy London, decided …

Google has saddened early adopter everywhere today with its decision to shut down Google Labs, its incubator for newly conceived, half-baked products, which sometimes evolved into tasty new offerings from …

Twitter is a wonderful thing, and if you’re following the right people, you can pick up the tastiest morsels on the web. With today being a bit of an Apple fest, we thought you might enjoy a bite of the following link, which outlines links to download iOS 5 for pretty much everything.

E-commerce software firm Insterpire plans to expand its footprint in its Austin, Texas office from around 40 employees to 70 workers by the end of 2011. The Sydney-based company announced …

Microsoft has hit back at allegations from Intel that the four versions of Windows ARM would not run existing PC programs and would offer a poor experience to users.

A few months ago Microsoft Corp. announced that they were building a version of Windows to run on ARM architecture, the kind found in system-on-a-chip silicon used by smartphones, tablets and other portable devices. Around a month ago Microsoft surprised attendees at their MIX developer conference in Las Vegas by demoing an apparently fully-functional version of Windows on ARM architecture.

Myriad Group | April 27, 2011 | Press Release Movistar launch marks first phase of Myriad-Telefónica 5-year strategic partnership to deliver social networking to over 140 million customers in 13 …

Today, Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) announced the company’s newest member to the TMS320C66x (C66x) generation of multi-core devices, the TMS320C6671 (C6671), in addition to architecture software updates to the company’s …

Reuters | April 18, 2011 | Joseph Radford (Reuters) – Troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.T) said on Monday it is mulling the sale of stock holdings and real estate, but …

We get it – application stores are cool. With the two biggest games in town, Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google Inc.’s Android’s Market both running in to several hundred thousand apps and making developers millions of dollars, it only seems natural that others would want to irk the successful formula.

Fox Business News | March 28, 2011 | Dhanya Ann Thoppil BANGALORE -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: 25.41, -0.21, -0.82%) Monday said it named the ex-chief of Oracle India, Bhaskar Pramanik, as new …

China Tech News | March 18, 2011 Chinese Internet security provider Kingsoft Network and Wi-Fi service provider WiWide have announced that the two companies have formed a strategic partnership to …

Business News Americas | March 16, 2011 | Patrick Nixon Improved security elements of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser were a key contributing factor to the …