SOFTWARE

Today, at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, executives introduced Oracle’s latest 10g application server.

Oracle marked its 30th year of existence with a Service Leadership Award awarded by the Service and Support Professionals Association (SSPA) for its tremendous contribution to innovation in the technology services industry.

Software company Oracle kicked off a five day IT conference in San Francisco with keynotes from several executives, including co-founder and CEO, Larry Ellison, who reminisced on the company's humble beginnings.

The sniper crouches down in the tall grass, then pauses using his scope to draw a bead on an enemy soldier, who staggers back in a spray of blood.

Warner Bros. home entertainment division said on Thursday it was buying UK-based games publisher TT Games, the business behind Traveler's Tales and the LEGO Star Wars series.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd is rolling out a professional software package aimed at small and medium businesses with up to 30 wireless users, the company said on Monday.

Microsoft Corp's Windows Vista is starting to see mass adoption from businesses nearly a year after it was released, the company said while predicting a strong first holiday season for the product.

Internet media company Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.

Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

EBay division Skype and mobile phone group 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free Internet calls to each other while on the move.

Oracle Corp withdrew a $6.7 billion bid for business software maker BEA Systems Inc on Sunday, setting the stage for a proxy battle between activist investor Carl Icahn and the BEA board. Icahn is BEA's biggest shareholder with a 15 percent stake.

Microsoft Corp has made progress in getting its Windows software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said on Thursday.

Singer-guitarist Walter de Castro couldn't believe his luck when he found out his band's song The Core would be featured on FIFA 2008, the Electronic Arts popular soccer game.

A deal between Facebook and either Google Inc or Microsoft Corp is expected to be announced in the next 24 to 48 hours, The New York Post reported on its Web site on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

AT&T Inc, the biggest U.S. mobile service, said on Monday it would offer wireless song downloads from Napster Inc's digital music service, expanding an existing agreement.

Google Inc aims to apply Web search technology to a general set of health information problems and remains committed to the market despite slow initial progress, an executive said on Wednesday.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India's top software services exporter, said on Thursday it had signed a contract with Nielsen Co worth $1.2 billion, sending its shares up nearly 2 percent.

Apple Inc said on Tuesday the newest version of its Macintosh operating system would go on sale on October 26, hitting the market after a four-month delay due to the company's work on the iPhone.

Adobe Systems Inc said on Monday the BBC will use its Flash software to broadcast video and audio from its Web site, giving the Web content software company another high-profile customer.

Random House, the world's biggest book publisher, is considering joining a book-search project run by Google, once considered an arch-enemy by the paper publishing industry.

Business software maker BEA Systems Inc rejected a $6.7 billion takeover bid from Oracle Corp on Friday, throwing the company into play by saying the unsolicited offer was too low. Shares rose 38 percent, above a five-year high.