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White House Official Pushes for Software as a Service (PC World)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:01:07 +0000

PC World – A top official with the U.S. White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs.

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Oracle to buy BEA for $7.85 billion (AP)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:01:11 +0000

AP – Business software maker Oracle Corp. agreed Wednesday to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the company that pioneered Web services software.

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Sun Lights LAMP With $1 Billion MySQL Buy (TechWeb)

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:01:07 +0000

TechWeb – Does the purchase of a widely used open source database system mean Sun is transitioning into a Web 2.0 software company?

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GraFX Saver Pro

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:01:46 +0000

Create professional screen savers in record time. Supports over 20 image and video formats as well as all popular audio formats (MP3, WMA, WAV, MIDI, AIFF, SND, etc.) for background sound.

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Researchers turn camera phone into mouse (InfoWorld)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:01:28 +0000

InfoWorld – Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing users to swivel a camera phone to scroll or move items on a PC screen.

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IBM’s forecasts strong earnings (AP)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:01:43 +0000

AP – International Business Machines Corp. told Wall Street to raise its 2008 estimates Thursday, further boosting a stock that was already buoyed by strong fourth-quarter earnings.

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Attack Code Released for Critical Windows Flaw (PC World)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:01:45 +0000

PC World – Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system.

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Researchers Use Camera Phone as a Mouse (PC World)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:01:25 +0000

PC World – Researchers in the U.K. have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing users to swivel a camera phone to scroll or move items on a PC screen.

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DMT SQL Decryptor 2.7

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:01:41 +0000

SQL Decryptor is the powerful tools to decrypt SQL stored procedures, triggers, views and user defined functions in an easy to use Enterprise Manager-like graphical interface. It works quickly to decrypt items in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005. SQL…

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U.S. game sales rise 28 pct in Dec. (Reuters)

admin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:01:29 +0000

Reuters – U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles like Nintendo Co Ltd’s (7974.OS) top-selling Wii, market research firm NPD said on Thursday.

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