Software News

Best Buy Co Inc plans to start an online service that allows consumers to buy, rent and download movies and television shows, the electronics retailer said on Tuesday.

Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. rose Friday after the video game publisher posted strong third-quarter results and backed its full-year outlook amid a difficult time for the video game industry.

Despite a sobering presentation about sexting and a Twitter promo from one of the world's most popular tweeters, the main message of the day at the first Wired Moms summit on Friday was pretty low tech: talk to your kids.

Windows 7 has been a bigger seller than its predecessor, Windows Vista , new industry figures show.

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced By Elizabeth Montalbano When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.

Adobe has introduced Photoshop.com Mobile as an application for mobile phones running the Android operating system.

Google Inc. on Thursday unveiled a way for users of its services to see what it knows about them.

Say what you like about Microsoft, but their Research arm certainly know how to put together an eye-catching demo.

The Serious Fraud Investigation Office will continue its investigation into alleged corporate law violations by Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju but other agencies would probe breaking foreign exchange rules, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday.

Experience all-out modern warfare open to all players with demo in early 2010. November 5, 2009 - Stockholm, Sweden - DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc.

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest software exporter, said on Thursday its chairman's wife sold company shares worth $92 million for setting up a venture capital fund.

It's been a rough year for the video game industry, but Activision Blizzard Inc.

Smith Micro Software Inc. said Wednesday it turned a profit in the third quarter but cut its 2009 revenue estimate, sending shares tumbling nearly 20 percent in aftermarket trading.

JDA Software Group Inc., which makes inventory management software for retailers, says it has agreed to buy rival i2 Technologies Inc.

SourceForge, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to Geeknet, Inc. to more accurately reflect the company's business and the growing market it serves.

Video game maker THQ Inc. said it lost less in the third quarter than it did a year earlier even as sales fell because it lowered its operating costs, sending its shares higher in aftermarket trading.

TECHNOLOGY titans Cisco, EMC and VMware announced an alliance to peddle the wonders of cloud computing and virtualisation in a $US350 billion business market.

Today, during its press event in Taiwan, HTC Corporation chief executive officer, Peter Chou, joined Microsoft Corp.

Digital River Inc., which operates online stores for software and consumer electronics companies, said Tuesday it expects to reduce its payroll by 10 percent to 15 percent next year as it prepares to lose its biggest customer, Symantec.

Oracle has resigned itself to the likelihood of a full European competition investigation into its takeover of Sun Microsystems.