SOFTWARE

Apple Inc introduced a smaller version of its popular iPod Shuffle music player on Wednesday with a new feature that enables it to announce songs to its user.

Physicians at Thy-Mors hospital in Denmark and IBM have developed patient record software that uses a three-dimensional computer model of the human anatomy to visualize a patient's medical information.

India is launching its own version of Google Earth for urban planning, officials said, amid worries that it could be misused after the Mumbai attacks probe showed militants had studied Google images of targets.

Nokia Oyj is betting a wider and more tailored offering of media and software for its phones will prove attractive when its Ovi online store opens in May and goes head-to-head with Apple Inc's App Store.

New research predicts that sales of handsets that use Google's Android could surpass Apple iPhones in three years when it comes to sales figures.

Microsoft has apparently submitted to European pressure and has built a feature within Windows 7 that allows users the option to disable Internet Explorer.

The Boxee and Hulu drama seems to have been reignited today.

The Yahoo Search Blog announced Thursday that the search startup it acquired last May, called Inquisitor, will be launched as an application on Apple's iPhone.

Facebook is making a variety of product announcements on Wednesday, the most significant of which is a renovation of the News Feed that users see when they log into their accounts and new filtering tools.

IBM created a software allowing people to meet in a virtual world face to face. The new software called Sametime 3d allows people to meet, exchange instant messages, chat verbally and share presentations and ideas in private, prefabricated, reusable meeting spaces located in a variety of virtual worlds.

Microsoft Corp will favor neither American nor foreign workers as it cuts thousands of jobs, the company said on Tuesday in response to a senator's call that the jobs of U.S. employees be preserved.

Linux.com claim serving over 25 million users at the site featuring news, forum and information but the site was redesigned when the non-profit Linux Foundation has announced its acquisition over Linux.com promising to transform it into a more collaborative site.

Skype, the VoIP service company is using SpinVox to transcribe voice mails and convert send them to text messages that can be sent to cell phones.

Microsoft Corp is testing a new version of its online search service internally under the name of Kumo.com, a spokesman for the software company said on Monday.

Microsoft announced at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover on Monday that it's rolling out its Surface computer to 12 new markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Linux based open source hardware announced to launch a Linux based tablet/netbook with Touch Book OS.

A Belgian court fined Internet search engine Yahoo €55,000 ($69,300) on Monday for failing to hand over personal account information of users suspected of committing fraud online.

German twenty-somethings would ditch their spouses and do without a car in a heartbeat if they had to choose between having them or Internet access or a mobile phone, according to an industry study.

So some relief is greeting Apple's introduction of the new iTunes Pass model with veteran band Depeche Mode, which records on the EMI label. Similar to the Season Pass model iTunes implemented in March 2006 for TV show downloads, the iTunes Pass lets artists sell a range of products for one flat price and deliver them throughout a given period of time.

Earlier this week, consumer electronics maker Apple released an updated version of its popular web browser, Safari, bringing with it a slew of new features.

Microsoft Corp's chief financial officer forecast at least another year of tough trading in all areas on Thursday, as the economy shows no immediate sign of recovery.