Microsoft Office Accounting Express being discontinued
Microsoft has announced that they are discontinuing their Office Accounting Express product.
The company said in a note on their website: “We continually evaluate our business strategies to make sure we’re working to meet the needs of customers, partners and shareholders. With that in mind, we have determined that [...]
Amazon Kindle app for Windows and Mac coming up soon!
Amazon had a surprise for the owners of their Kindle eBook reader.
Kindle is facing fresh competition from a series of new eBook readers that have been launched in the recent days.
Barnes & Noble has just announced their Nook eBook reader which looks like [...]
Adobe warns about another Acrobat vulnerability
Adobe has released another warning related to their Acrobat range of products.
The company said that these new vulnerabilities are critical in nature and they are working on issuing fixes for them.
Adobe said that the following products are affected:
Adobe Reader 9.1.3, Acrobat 9.1.3, Adobe Reader 8.1.6, and [...]
Invision Power Board 3.0.4 released
Invision Power Services has launched the latest edition of their Invision Power Board bulletin board software.
Invision Power Board is now in version 3.0.4.
This latest edition is a maintenance release for IP.Board 3.
It fixes bugs and has some new enhancements for the users of this forum software.
IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, [...]
Google joins the Open Screen Project
Google has announced that they have joined the Open Screen Project managed by software giant Adobe.
This collaboration is part of bringing the support for Adobe Flash Technologies on the Android mobile platform.
Google said in a blog post:
We’ve always believed that open platforms lead to greater [...]
Sam Ramji joins Sonoa Systems
Sam Ramji was once the head of the Microsoft’s open source division.
Ramji also recently took over as the interim president of the CodePlex Foundation.
He left Microsoft last month. Microsoft is yet to announce the replacement of Ramji.
He has now joined Sonoa Systems which deals with cloud [...]
Apple does it again… Useless software installation on Windows OS
Apple was criticized heavily when they started delivering Apple Safari web browser through their Software Update utility.
Safari was selected by default at first which led to many unwanted installations.
Apple fixed the problem by shifting new software to a different box where user got [...]
Nokia acquires Dopplr
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia continues to acquire more web services as they aim to expand into this market.
Nokia is already the world’s biggest mobile phone maker but they have been focusing a lot on generating revenues through mobile services.
Dopplr said in a blog post about the deal:
The acquisition does not [...]
Microsoft suing scareware developers
US based software giant Microsoft is now taking the legal route to take on developers of scareware applications.
The company has filed lawsuits against five companies which they claim indulge in such practices.
These five companies are: DirectAd Solutions, Soft Solutions, qiweroqw.com, ote2008.info and ITmeter.
Microsoft claims in their lawsuits that [...]
Skype founders suing eBay
The original founders of the VoIP Company Skype have filed a lawsuit against the Skype’s current parent company eBay along with the people who are interested in acquiring it. The other parties include Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Index Ventures.
The company claims damages that are growing [...]
