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Software RSS FeedsHP reports better-than-expected quarter, but cuts 27,000 jobs amid restructuring - HP released better than expected results after the close of the markets Wednesday, and the company overall shows signs of a long-awaited turnaround. But the big story tonight surrounds the 27,000 workers who will lose their jobs as part of a "multi-year" restructuring plan announced by CEO Meg Whitman. The cuts amount to about eight percent of the workforce and are expected to save HP between $3 and $3.5 billion annually by 2015. It will be phased in gradually though 2014, and involves an early retirement package to be offered by the company. In a conference call with analysts, Whitman… [Continue Reading]...Feed Source: feeds.betanews.com Create HTML 5 photo galleries with Juicebox - Looking for an impressive way to show off your digital photos? Juicebox may be just what the doctor ordered. This free Adobe AIR app can be used on Macs as well as PCs running Windows or Linux and whatever platform you use to create your gallery, you can be sure that it?ll look great on both desktop and mobile platforms. The app has been designed specifically with online photo galleries in mind, and despite the fact that stunning HTML5 galleries can be created, you do not need to know a single line of coding. One of the problems that faces anyone looking… [Continue Reading]... Geeks rejoice at Google's legal triumph over Oracle - Google couldn't have asked for better in its intellectual property dispute with Oracle. The judge turned out to be a programmer, and his ongoing guidance to the jury tempered deliberations. Then there were a couple of lucky breaks, the biggest perhaps from former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who volunteered on the witness stand the company saw no grounds to sue Google. Wherever the luck, and perhaps a tenable defense, Google won big today with the jury finding that Android doesn't violate Oracle patents acquired from Sun. The reaction, as measured by Google+ posts, is magnanimous for the search giant --… [Continue Reading]... Jury says Android does not violate Oracle's patents, APIs up next in landmark case - The fight between Oracle and Google over Android's use of Java took a turn in Google's favor, filings from the District Court for the Norther District of California showed on Wednesday. The jury in the patent phase of the case unanimously voted that Oracle did not prove Android had infringed on Oracle's Java patents. This decision settles only part of the lawsuit, which Groklaw remarked has been the "longest civil trial" they have ever covered. However, it is a big part. Oracle was calling for an injunction on Android plus damages in its suit, and now that the jury has… [Continue Reading]... Free USB Guard leaves no drives behind - It?s easily done. You?ve finished working on a friend?s PC, close it down and walk away, completely forgetting about the USB key you plugged in a little earlier. Or maybe you?re at home, closing down your own PC, even though there?s a CD or DVD in the drive that you?ll need later. And then, once you realize, you?re perhaps forced to restart the system before you can eject it. They?re both common problems, but easy to address with a little help from Free USB Guard. Just launch the program, and if you log off or shut down later then it checks for… [Continue Reading]... Who will buy Samsung Galaxy S III? - Samsung starts selling its third-generation S Series smartphone next week -- May 29, although some locales are expected to get it a day earlier (if not sooner). Our BetaNews poll, "Will you buy Samsung Galaxy S III", has enough responses -- 2,361, as I write -- to report results. Cut to the point: 36.59 percent of you won't buy the S3. At least among our tech community, there is huge interest in the smartphone, which is now available for preorders here, including Amazon. Some of you have preordered, or will do so: 15.37 percent. Another 32.57 percent plan to order… [Continue Reading]... Seagate begins its next big takeover: LaCie - American storage company Seagate announced on Wednesday its intention to become majority owner of French storage company LaCie by buying 64.5% of the company's shares from chairman and CEO Phillippe Spruch. Pending government approval of this transaction, Seagate will then buy up the rest of the outstanding stock in cash or commence a squeeze out maneuver of any minority stakeholders. After he sells his stake, Spruch will become the head of Seagate's consumer storage products organization, above Patrick Connolly, who is currently Seagate's vice president and general manager of retail. Deputy general manager of LaCie Pierre van der Elst will… [Continue Reading]... Do you use Gmail and want to know more about your contacts? Try Rapportive - We all now communicate with people through so many channels that it is often difficult to put names to faces. You may know someone on Twitter and Facebook but when you receive an email from them you do not necessary make a connection between the two. This is where Rapportive can help, by providing you with extended information about the contacts you receive emails from in your Gmail inbox. Rapportive is available as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Safari and appears as a right-hand side panel whenever you look at individual emails. The extension pulls in information from social networks such as Twitter,… [Continue Reading]... Secure your data with US military-developed Encryption Wizard - When you need to carry sensitive data on a USB key then it?s easy to find an encryption tool which will help to keep it safe. But life gets a little more complicated when you need to transfer your files from a PC to a Mac, or maybe a Linux system: now you?ll need a cross-platform solution, and we have the perfect candidate in mind. Encryption Wizard is an easy-to-use, yet surprisingly powerful Java-based encryption tool. Developed by the US military (a plus point or a problem, depending on your point of view) but available for all, the program provides a… [Continue Reading]... Oracle gains stake in social CRM with $300 million Vitrue buy - A day after competitor SAP acquired Ariba to bolster its cloud portfolio, Oracle announced a significant buy of its own, acquiring cloud-based social, marketing company Vitrue on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although TechCrunch reports it was worth some $300 million. Oracle's purchase of Vitrue gives the Redwood Shores, Calif. company a foothold in the social CRM segment, an initiative Gartner says companies will spend some $2.1 billion on this year alone. With the rise of social networks, companies need methods to quantify the results of their social marketing. Virtue's platform allows customers to "centrally create, publish,… [Continue Reading]... System Security Guard warns but doesn't protect - When you?re manually hunting for malware on a PC then you might start by launching Task Manager, Process Explorer, Process Hacker or a similar tool to see exactly what?s running. But these programs generally won?t directly tell you which processes are safe, and which might be dubious: you?ll have to look at what they?re doing and try to figure this out for yourself. If this seems a little too much like hard work, though (or you?d just like some pointers to tell you where to look first), then you might be interested in System Security Guard, a very simple tool which can check your… [Continue Reading]... SAP acquires Ariba for $4.3 billion in bid to challenge Oracle in the cloud - SAP made a major play for the cloud Tuesday as its American arm announced acquisition of Ariba, a German cloud computing applications maker. The transaction is worth some $4.3 billion, and is expected to close this summer. Ariba is the world's second largest-cloud vendor by revenue, SAP says. With the addition of the German company, SAP now looks to challenge rival Oracle, which also has made a play for the cloud segment as of late. "The addition of Ariba will create the business network of the future, deliver immediate value to our customers and provide another solid engine for driving… [Continue Reading]... Anonymous hack of DOJ causes more embarrassment than actual harm - On Monday, hacktivist group Anonymous announced it will be releasing 1.7 gigabytes of private data it has acquired from the United States Department of Justice, in an event it called "Monday Mail Mayhem." The group claimed the act was being done to "spread information, to allow the people to be heard and to know the corruption in their government. We are releasing it to end the corruption that exists, and truly make those who are being oppressed free." New York-based security company Identity Finder ran an analysis on the data after it was released on Tuesday, and found the file… [Continue Reading]... Xara Photo & Graphic Designer MX 8.1 review - Equipping your PC for professional graphics work normally involves buying several different applications, learning their various interfaces and hoping they?ll somehow all work together. Xara?s philosophy is a little different, though: their new Photo & Graphic Designer MX 8.1 can handle photo editing, illustration, vector drawing, DTP, web graphics, even simple Flash animation, and all in a single $89 application. It?s no surprise that some of the program?s modules aren?t up to the standard of the more specialist competition. Photo & Graphic Designer MX isn?t going to replace Photoshop anytime soon, for instance, and its Flash animation abilities are really just about… [Continue Reading]... Protect your accounts with Sticky Password - The ever-present need for security means that every account that you have online, and probably on your computer as well, needs to be protected with a username and password. If you have taken the wise step of ensuring that all of your passwords are different, this will undoubtedly mean that you have an incredible number of passwords to remember. Sticky Password is a free tool that can store all of your passwords in a secure database and save you having to remember them by automatically filling in login information for you. Sticky Password 6.0 has just been released and there?s a lot… [Continue Reading]... Are Facebook bankers backers or backstabbers? - What's the measure of Facebook's IPO? MBAOnline sent us a couple of infographics explaining just that (see them below the fold). But I must qualify that they don't take into account downward trends and some nasty behind-the-scenes backstabbing. Late yesterday, writing for Reuters, Alistair Barr reports that ahead of Facebook's Friday IPO, lead underwriter Morgan Stanley reduced revenue forecasts during the roadshow promoting the public offering. JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs did similarly. Fallen dot-com stock analyst and risen tech news publisher Henry Blodget adds perspective. "This by itself is highly unusual (I've never seen it during 20 years in… [Continue Reading]... Open source software comes of age - More than half of all software acquired by IT in the next five years will be open source, according to a new study, and open source software (OSS) leads in the areas of cloud, big data, mobile apps and enterprise mobility. "Taken together with applications like mobile and enabled by cloud, we are entering an exciting new era of 'Open Innovation on Demand,' where not only can OSS innovate faster, it can be deployed immediately and consumed as a service from the cloud", says Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, one of the sponsors of the survey.… [Continue Reading]... Larry Page: 'Motorola is a great American tech company' - Googorola is now a reality. Today, Google formally completed its Motorola acquisition, after completing the final hurdle, approval from China, over the weekend. The approval came with conditions -- that Google keep Android open for at least 5 years -- but the company had been on that track anyway. Motorola is a big purchase, $12.5 billion, initiated in August 2011. With Motorola, Google gets an enormous cache of patents -- pending and approved around 24,000; enormous wealth in cellular research and development, manufacturing operations; and a heap load of headaches. Over the weekend, for example, International Trade Commission blocked entry… [Continue Reading]... Raspberry Pi not enough for you? How about a $49 Android PC? - Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company Via Technologies on Tuesday unveiled its affordable, low power Android PC system, known simply as APC. The $49 board uses the Neo-ITX form factor, which at 170 x 85 millimeters is the same length as Mini-ITX, but half as wide. It is powered by the VIA WonderMedia ARM 11 system on a chip, which is equipped with an 800MHz processor, 512 MB of DDR3 RAM, and has integrated GPU capable of video outputs up to 720p in resolution. It also has 2GB of NAND Flash storage, HDMI and VGA ports, four USB 2.0 ports, 1/8" headphone… [Continue Reading]... Google+ will continue to grow whether people actually use it or not - With Facebook now public and sitting on a huge pile of cash, let?s turn the conversation to the social network?s most pressing competitor, Google. Google and Google+ don?t appear to present much of a threat to Facebook, but the game board was reset on Friday and tactics at both companies will change accordingly. Now Facebook has to find a way to grow revenue and users and will increasingly bump up against Google?s huge advantages in search and apps. For Facebook to achieve its goals, the company will have to enter both spaces with gusto. Google has learned how to leverage… [Continue Reading]... Copyright © 2012, Internet Marketing Tools. All Rights Reserved. |
