SOFTWARE

Microsoft announced its gains in mindshare with 15,000 developers building apps for its recently launched Windows Phone 7.

Novell's Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon said on Wednesday that UNIX copyrights are in Novell's hands, quieting fears that Microsoft had clinched its UNIX copyrights.

Social networking site Facebook is planning to trademark the word 'face' as it wants to stop other companies from using the term in a way which damages its own brand.

Apple's walled-garden approach has a new victim, radio station apps, as Apple fenced out single station radio apps from its App Store.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: ArQule, Magic Software Enterprises, Acacia Research, Hauppauge Digital, SodaStream International, Oclaro, Orexigen Therapeutics, Golar LNG, LJ International, and Northern Technologies International.

After Google plugged the life support out of its real-time collaboration tool Wave in August, the open-sourcers' Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has stepped in to give Wave a new lease of life.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Magic Software Enterprises, Tesla Motors, Deckers Outdoor, F5 Networks, DryShips, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Amazon.com, Baidu, Oracle, and Netflix.

Popular geolocation services such as Facebook Places, Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt could easily reveal the position of US armed forces to the enemy, U.S. Air Force has warned.

Web pioneer Google, which effectively weaned people off newspapers and everything that was 'old guard', has surprisingly come back to the print medium. The tech giant has been publishing newspaper advertisements on Google Chrome as well as its newly launched Web guidebook.

Microsoft has announced price changes to Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) which will be effective from January 2011.

A whopping 20 percent of all Facebook users are active targets of malware through malicious posts, a study has revealed.

PC giant Hewlett Packard is probably going to sign a mega customer relationship management deal with Salesforce.com for about 35,000 to 40,000 seats, a move that might end up replacing Oracle Siebel as its CRM provider.

Sales of the BlackBerry’s latest Torch 9800, which were initially hit by its high price, have zoomed in the US market after its prices were slashed by half earlier this month.

It’s the status updates of travelers on various social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter that is helping them keep in touch with friends and family while on the go, according to a global survey conducted by Sheraton Hotels & Resorts.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Maxygen, Virgin Media, Magic Software Enterprises, Pacer International, Celldex Therapeutics, TiVo, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Natural Alternatives International, GT Solar International, and Northwest Bancshares.

Google will no more use its Street View Cars technology to collect information and said on Sunday it is ready to delete all personal data collected by Street View cars.

Attachmate Corp, an investment group owned by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo, said it will buy networking solutions company Novell, Inc. for about $2.2 billion.

If you still didn't know what a cookie is and are shy to ask for fear of being seen as a neo-Luddite, you now have Google's help! Or, if you wanted to know how you could protect yourself on the Web or what happens if a truck runs over your laptop, get the answer's from the horse's mouth. Google has now launched an online guidebook called '20 things I learned about Browsers and the Web.'

Internet search engine Google has played down its rivalry with social networking site Facebook, but said social media was part of its strategy and would be embedded in many of its products.

Amazon's Christmas bonanza includes Motorola Droid X, HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid Pro, BlackBerry Bold which are up for grabs at $0.01 courtesy Verizon.

Google's interactive online book simplifies concepts like TCP/IP, HTML language, browser techniques and the threat of malware while on the Net. Titled '20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web', the short HTPL5-compliant explains how the web works in a step-by-step manner.