Reuters - India's third-largest software services
exporter, Wipro Ltd. , is in talks for software and
technological support contract for an upcoming Boeing
facility in India, an official said on Monday.

Reuters - U.S.-financed China Public Security
Technology will provide software that links to at
least 20,000 police surveillance cameras being installed along
streets in southern China, according to the New York Times on
Sunday.

PC World - MySQL AB has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community.

TechWeb - The Indian company's in the middle of buying a U.S. data center management company and plans to open as many as four software development centers staffed with local hires.

AFP - A team of Thai college students who wrote computer software to read for the illiterate took the top prize at Microsoft's 2007 Imagine Cup in Seoul on Friday.

InfoWorld - MySQL has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community.

TechWeb - The software allows for third party financial services including identity theft monitoring, tax preparation and investment education.

TechWeb - EMC said Thursday it expects shares of its VMware software unit to sell for about 17 percent more than previously projected amid growing interest in what has been touted as one of the hottest IPOs of the year.

InfoWorld - A bug in the way Norton AntiVirus software uses the ActiveX programming language could cause serious problems for users of Symantec's products.

TechWeb - Mendel Rosenblum envisions a world run by virtualization appliances where software makers wouldn't need a bulky or complex OS.

PC World - Microsoft Corp. will release nine sets of security patches next week, including six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and its Visual Basic development software.

PC World - A bug in the way Norton Antivirus software uses the ActiveX programming language could cause serious problems for users of Symantec Corp.'s products.

InfoWorld - Microsoft will release nine sets of security patches next week, including six critical updates for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and its Visual Basic development software.

NewsFactor - In order for Linux to grow into the computing mainstream, the open-source OS needs more applications and a standardized approach to software certification, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said in his keynote Wednesday at the LinuxWorld conference and trade show in San Francisco.

PC World - AOL has quietly stopped offering its free Active Virus Shield software in favor of a competing alternative from vendor McAfee Inc.

TechWeb - Prosecutors alleged that a Georgia man made unauthorized duplicates of the Windows operating system and pocketed more than $226,000.

InfoWorld - Having gained industry-wide recognition, Linux now is moving into its second stage of growth, in which it vies with Microsoft Windows as a dominant computing platform, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said Wednesday.

InfoWorld - AOL has quietly stopped offering its free Active Virus Shield software in favor of a competing alternative from vendor McAfee.

PC World - Dell Inc. hopes to push the open source Linux operating system into the corporate desktop environment using virtualization so alternative Linux operating systems can more easily be run alongside Windows systems from Microsoft Corp.

TechWeb - The company wants open source partners to help complete its recent management and automation software acquisitions to build data centers of the future.

AFP - Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new line of iMac computers and slick software hoping the glow of iPod MP3 players and iPhones will help shine Apple's core products.

TechWeb - IBM unveils Information Server Blades, a combination hardware and software for building data warehouses on grid-computing environments.

Reuters - Dell Inc said on Tuesday it has
decided to expand sales of consumer personal computers loaded
with the Linux operating system to the United Kingdom, France,
Germany and China.

InfoWorld - In what could be a new assault on the market for handheld gadgets, Dell has agreed to acquire Zing Systems, a company that makes software for distributing and managing music on mobile devices.

InfoWorld - EnterpriseDB has released a new distribution of the PostgreSQL open source database, hoping to expand the use of the software and compete better with MySQL.

InfoWorld - Microsoft has described its Mediaroom IPTV offering as a way for the software giant to expand its reach into the living room, but now the company also says IPTV is a chance for it to gain a new market in telecommunications operators.

NewsFactor - On Tuesday at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new iMacs featuring an aluminum-and-glass design, along with updates to the iWorks and iLife software packages.

AP - Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a new restructuring plan, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

TechWeb - Federal agents seized nearly 500,000 CDs and 6,135 stampers capable of producing more than 300 million disks of pirated and counterfeit software.

InfoWorld - Microsoft has quietly released pre-beta code to two forthcoming Windows service packs to testers in the past week, but the company continues to remain vague about when the final code for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista SP1 will make it to end-users.