06:43 20.05.2006
SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, would be open to a merger or a takeover by companies such as IBM, Microsoft or Google, if the price were right, one of SAP's co-founders and biggest shareholders said.
Certain handsets will feature iPass software for connecting to public Wi-Fi hot spots.
The European Commission continued to defend its 2004 antitrust ruling against Microsoft Corp. this morning.
Microsoft Corp. continued its appeal of a record antitrust conviction and fine on Thursday with a panel of judges questioning it and the European Commission about the software maker's claims that its ability to innovate had been impeded.
Intuit expects to launch this week a fully-hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for large enterprises as an add-on to QuickBase for Corporate Workgroups.
The firms said their combined company will have more than 5,500 customers and will offer a coherent supply-demand chain optimization solution.
European Union judges have another chance on Thursday to probe Microsoft's challenge to a landmark decision that the software giant illegally muscled out rivals, in a week-long hearing that has become increasingly heated.
The obstacles holding back desktop Linux include the belief that Linux backers stir up trouble, the perception that commercial software for Linux is lacking and the notion that installing Windows is cheaper for big PC makers, said speakers at this week's Linux Desktop Summit.
More than two years after Microsoft Corp. began promoting Wallop, its technology for social networking, the software company is spinning off the project to a new startup company.
Top US video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has agreed to pay 14.9 million dollars (US) to settle a lawsuit by software engineers who claimed they weren't paid for working overtime, a spokeswoman for the firm said.
Microsoft has given software pirates a little more to worry about, following the announcement this week that it has begun to widen the scope of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program to include checks for the authenticity of Microsoft Office software. The company also has made changes to WGA to broaden the reach of its Windows XP verifications.
