Bing could map path to iPhones
News Microsoft is working on a Bing application for mobile phones, and the iPhone is a possible target for the search and mapping tool, a program manager has said [04 Dec 2009]
Bing Maps beta taps into Silverlight
News Microsoft is releasing a test version of its online map tool that uses Silverlight to deliver 3D pictures and street-level images [03 Dec 2009]
SAP price hikes delayed
News The UK SAP users group predicts rises will not arrive until Q2 next year, after SAP announced its value benchmarking timescale had slipped [02 Dec 2009]
IBM's Tivoli heads to Amazon Web Services
News The Tivoli move highlights another addition to Amazon's stable of enterprise-class applications available on its platform [02 Dec 2009]
Qt gets support for Symbian, multitouch
News Version 4.6 of the Nokia-owned graphical toolkit lets developers write apps within a single framework for a variety of desktop and smartphone platforms [01 Dec 2009]
Chrome OS adapted for Dell netbook
News With an experimental project, Dell has brought Google's browser-based operating system to its Mini 10v Netbook [01 Dec 2009]
'Black screen of death' sparks Microsoft investigation
News The software maker is looking into reports that some users' systems are not working properly after installing the latest Windows security updates [01 Dec 2009]
Apple changes its UK terms of sale
News The manufacturer is now explicitly liable for faulty or misdescribed goods, after concerns raised by the Office of Fair Trading prompted a revision of Apple's terms and conditions [27 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com demos Service Cloud 2 
Video Chief executive Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2 [27 Nov 2009]
Rickroll virus author hired by iPhone app company
News The creator of the 'ikee' worm, which replaced the wallpaper of jailbroken iPhones with a picture of Rick Astley, has been hired by Australian app developers Mogeneration [27 Nov 2009]
Near-final Thunderbird 3 is released
News The first release candidate of Mozilla Messaging's email software arrives several days later than expected [26 Nov 2009]
Warning over cloud computing's environmental costs
News A report by university IT organisation Jisc says technologies used to connect to the cloud are highly energy inefficient [26 Nov 2009]
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Developers invited into LinkedIn
News The networking site for professionals has opened its platform to developers so they can integrate it into business applications and web sites [24 Nov 2009]
Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google
News Rupert Murdoch's media empire is talking with the tech giant about having its websites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report [23 Nov 2009]
Chrome, Android likely to merge
News Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that the company's two operating-system projects, which could compete with each other in netbooks, may become one OS over time [23 Nov 2009]
Adobe's Acrobat.com adds organiser, mobile app
News The company is improving its Acrobat service with a new organiser and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go [20 Nov 2009]
Ballmer touts speed of Windows 7 sales
News At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, the CEO said the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows [20 Nov 2009]
Google shows Chrome OS, promises 2010 launch
News Google's long-awaited Chrome OS aims at security, speed and simplicity in netbook cloud computing [19 Nov 2009]
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IE9, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 in the PDC spotlight
News Day two of Microsoft's PDC saw clients take centre stage, with browsers, rich internet applications and productivity tools in the spotlight [19 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
News The third beta imposes a new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it, while a feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7 [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
News Public availability of the test version was announced at PDC in Los Angeles. New features include a mechanism for connecting Outlook to social networks [19 Nov 2009]
Microsoft open-sources .NET for embedded devices
News The software giant has released most of its .NET Micro Framework product, used in devices ranging from sat-nav units to remote controls, under the Apache 2.0 licence [17 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta made available to developers
News The updated test version is now available to members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programmes [17 Nov 2009]
Adobe offers new Flash, AIR betas
News Flash Player 10.1 gets a hardware video boost, and AIR 2 gets tighter integration with desktop computing resources such as USB drives and multitouch interfaces [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft introduces Excel for supercomputers
News At the SC09 supercomputing conference, Microsoft released a test version of its Excel spreadsheet redesigned to run on powerful clusters of servers [17 Nov 2009]




