Software News

Symantec Corp. today announced the global results of its fifth Disaster Recovery survey, which demonstrates rising DR pressures on organisations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service level requirements to mitigate risk to the business.

Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. , today announced that further to its announcement on May 20, 2009, Elron intends to negotiate with Clal Industries and Investments Ltd.

London: Accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing deepening scrutiny over its audit of Satyam - the IT giant known as 'India's Enron' - whose founder admitted fabricating cash and other non-existent assets of more than 1bn.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. faces a difficult test as it tries to digest its acquisition of Nokia Corp.'s online security business while the software market in Europe sags, a JPMorgan analyst said Wednesday.

Add another round to the three-way grudge match between Jakks Pacific Inc. , THQ Inc.

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Micro Focus International has once again had to raise its offer to acquire Borland Software , in order to counter an offer from a mystery bidder.

F5 Networks, Inc. , today announced integration between its BIG-IP solutions and VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vCenter Server, together creating a scalable and extensible platform that allows IT administrators to dramatically improve organizations' control over virtual environments.

The Andhra Pradesh government Thursday said the state has posted a 24.5 percent growth in information technology export revenues during 2008-09, higher than the projected national growth of 20.65 percent, but this includes the inflated figures submitted by the scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services.

Blizzard Entertainment has announced work on a new faction change service for its popular MMO, World of Warcraft .

Boeing Co. will have to compete for work on part of the Army's modernization plan following the service's decision to break up the giant contract that the company managed.

Would you like toast with that? Microsoft showed its edgy side this week with some innovative marketing moves aimed at the internet savvy, though the company backtracked quickly from a new video ad in which a woman vomits after finding a disturbing surfing history on her husband's laptop computer.

The CLB will pass an order next week asking two government-appointed directors to remain on the board of Mahindra Satyam NEW DELHI, INDIA: Four of the six government nominated directors will be withdrawn from the board of Indian outsourcer Mahindra Satyam Ltd, the chairman of India's Company Law Board said on Friday.

French unions for the software company Oracle Corp. say the company has told them it plans to cut between 850 and 1,000 jobs in Europe in response to slowing growth.

After a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Google's book settlement with the authors and publishers over its online book scanning and repository project.

A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money.

Hyland Software has made an acquisition aimed at further strengthening its presence in the health care field.

Microsoft promised that by purchasing the pricey Ultimate edition of Vista users would get all kinds of extras.

Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users.

Computer security firm Sophos issued a warning on Thursday about an Internet virus transmitted from a mass email claiming to contain secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson.