08/28/2008
Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice (New York Times)
Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.
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08/28/2008
Iona shareholders OK sale to Progress Software (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shareholders of Irish infrastructure-software provider Iona Technologies PLC voted Thursday to approve the $162 million sale of the company to Progress Software Corp.
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08/28/2008
Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice (New York Times)
Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.
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08/28/2008
Software AG Helps Watt Germany Transform Utility's Business Processes (ebizQ.net)
Software AG, a leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that Watt Germany GmbH has chosen the webMethods product suite from Software AG to support a revolutionary approach to managing Watts business processes. ebizQ ...
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08/28/2008
Presented By: GCDCâ€08: Intel Tools †turbo for your gaming software (EETimes)
When Intelâ€s Jérôme Muffat-Méridol and Basher Khan talk about â€Intel Tools †Accelerate your PC Software Performance†during GCDCâ€08, they will present two things. First: which Intel tuning software can you use in order to optimize your gaming apps for Intel platforms. And second Jérôme and Basher will focus on Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) [...] ...
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08/28/2008
Behind the doors of the Free Software Foundation (NewsForge)
The purpose of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is probably obvious from its name -- but what does promoting free software mean in terms of everyday activity? Examining the roles of the organization shows how complex the FSF's advocacy role has become. It also reveals the range of services available to the free software community, and helps to explain how such a small group has had such a ...
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08/28/2008
Quebec Government Sued for Buying Microsoft Software (Linux Today)
[ Thanks to anonymous for this link. ] "...the group says the provincial government has refused to entertain competing bids from all software providers, opting instead to supply public-sector departments with products bought from proprietary vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle Corp."
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08/29/2008
Tektronix launches new version of Spectra2 software (Computer Business Review)
According to Tektronix, its new Spectra2 6.3 software release introduces policy management testing for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and TISPAN (Telecoms & Internet converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Networks) networks, complementing Diameter solution with support for the Gq/Gq' and Rq interfaces.
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08/28/2008
Kiwi software firms get together (Stuff)
Two of New Zealand's accounting software firms have formed a partnership in a bid to attract more customers.
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08/28/2008
Nvidia To Optimize Its Software For Via Nano Processors (Tom's Hardware)
San Jose (CA) - Nvidia announced that it is counting on Via's Nano and will make "a significant investment in optimizing [the company's] software for the processor".
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