SOFTWARE

Hundreds of survivors of Italy's April earthquake protested outside parliament Tuesday as lawmakers debated a bill authorizing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's reconstruction plan.

Jefferies & Co raised its price target on Microsoft Corp's stock to $26 from $22 and recommended buying shares of the world's largest software company ahead of a possibly large, rapid corporate PC upgrade cycle starting in late 2010.

Norway's Opera Software opened a new, free service on Tuesday that enables simple sharing of personal computers' pictures, files or music with anyone on the Internet.

U.S. software company Adobe Systems Inc said on Monday it had moved Acrobat.com out of public beta testing and would charge subscribers to use the online version of its popular PDF reader software Acrobat.

Norway's Opera Software on Tuesday unveiled its new free service enabling simple sharing of pictures, files or music from computers, with anyone on the Internet.

Facebook users on Friday night made a mad dash to get their personalized Web address before someone else did.

A California software publisher will seek an injunction preventing U.S. companies from shipping computers with Chinese anti-pornography software it says was stolen, the company's president said on Saturday.

A California software company plans to seek an injunction preventing U.S. companies from shipping computers with Chinese anti-pornography software that it claims was stolen, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Microsoft is finalizing its trial version of free anti-virus code-named Morro and will be released soon, however rival Symantec has expressed disproval over the company's move.

China's plan to enforce internet-filtering software to be installed on all PC's and laptops to be sold in China, may not go as well as it had hoped.

Apple said its so called world's fastest browser Safari 4 has been downloaded 11 million times since it was released three days ago and more than half of the downloads came from PCs and laptops that use rival Windows as its operating system.

Norwegian browser maker Opera ASA said on Friday that Microsoft's plan to ship its Windows operating system in Europe without its Internet Explorer web browser was not enough to restore competition.

Italy's founder and other shareholders said on Friday they would launch an offer to buy out and then to delist the software company, sending RGI shares up more than 2 percent.

A Chinese lawyer has demanded a public hearing to reconsider a government demand that all new personal computers carry Internet filtering software, adding to uproar over a plan critics say is ineffective and intrusive.

The U.S. state of Mississippi settled an antitrust suit with Microsoft Corp for $100 million on Thursday and said businesses, individuals, schools and local government were eligible for a share of the money.

Antivirus companies Symantec and McAfee have agreed to pay fines of US$375,000 to settle charges that they automatically charged customers software subscription renewal fees without their permission.

Microsoft has confirmed the news about the report that Windows 7 will debut in European countries without its Internet Explorer 8 web browser, causing a stir of questions and uproar from prospective buyers.

Microsoft is planning to reveal its new antivirus with a code ‘Morro’ serving Windows end-user for free.

Microsoft has responded to the EU's antitrust investigation into its bundling of its browser with Windows by saying it will ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer 8 installed.

Countering pressure from European regulators, Microsoft Corp plans to ship the newest version of its Windows operating system in Europe without its Internet Explorer web browser.

Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's biggest PC maker, will help sell online backup services from Symantec Corp, which is looking to expand its consumer business beyond its line of Norton security products.