Reuters - Microsoft Corp’s upcoming security software is not designed to take sales from Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc as it is a stripped-down, free product that focuses purely on anti-virus protection, a Microsoft executive said.
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AFP - Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday ruled out making another takeover bid for Yahoo but said the US software giant remains open to a partnership on Internet search.
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NewsFactor - IBM plans to buy Transitive to help its customers cut costs. Big Blue announced Tuesday that it will acquire the Los Gatos, Calif.-based virtualization-software company for an undisclosed amount.
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AFP - Microsoft has announced plans to offer free anti-virus software to PC users starting next year.
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Reuters - Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats.
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Reuters - Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Inc and South Korean partner KTF Co will jointly develop a smartphone using Google Inc software for launch next year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.
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Reuters - Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Inc and South Korea’s KT Freetel Ltd will jointly develop a smart phone with free software from Google Inc for launch next year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.
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InfoWorld - Adobe Systems at its Adobe Max 2008 conference Tuesday heralded a slew of new technologies, including links between its Flex application development platform and Microsoft’s Visual Studio software development platform.
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Reuters - International Business Machines Corp said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire privately-owned Transitive Corp, whose technology helps businesses use software on IBM computers that was designed to run on rival systems.
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PC Magazine - Although Microsoft launched its third version of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio on Monday, don’t expect the software maker to actually produce its own robots. But what does the future hold? Microsoft’s general manager of its robotics studio explains.
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