Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/technology/software technology Software News en-us Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/technology/software http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10941_touchpal_keyboard_tablet_tops_android_apps_of_the_week/44403049/SIG=137h5f87k/*http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/10941-touchpal-keyboard-tablet-tops-android-apps-of-the-week appolicious_rss/20120203/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10941_touchpal_keyboard_tablet_tops_android_apps_of_the_week Appolicious technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:00 GMT Appolicious - The touchscreen keyboard gets an upgrade with TouchPal's Keyboard for Android tablets. It lets you easily switch between swiping and tapping, as well as gestures to get the most out of your finger follies. This week also brought some big name updates to the Android Market, including special upgrades from McAfee Security and Mint's personal finance app. Salesforce debuted its Rypple app this week, as did Eventbrite for managing events on-the-go. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120203/wr_nm/us_google_security nm/20120203/us_google_security Reuters technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:50:25 GMT Reuters - Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120202/ap_on_bi_ge/us_software_copyright_maryland ap/20120202/us_software_copyright_maryland AP business Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:06:47 GMT AP - Federal prosecutors say a former Baltimore man has been arrested in the U.S. after fleeing to Pakistan before he was indicted on a software copyright infringement charge. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles10937_more_than_50_percent_of_facebooks_monthly_active_users_are_on_mobile_apps/44390864/SIG=13q1sodlq/*http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/10937-more-than-50-percent-of-facebooks-monthly-active-users-are-on-mobile-apps appolicious_rss/20120202/http___www_appolicious_com_articles10937_more_than_50_percent_of_facebooks_monthly_active_users_are_on_mobile_apps Appolicious technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:54:00 GMT Appolicious - We already knew Facebook's various mobile apps were popular, be they on Apple's iPhone or iPad, on devices running Google's Android operating system, or even on BlackBerry devices and feature phones. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120202/wr_nm/us_avgtech nm/20120202/us_avgtech Reuters technology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:32:51 GMT Reuters - Anti-virus software maker AVG Technologies NV priced its initial public offering at $16 per share, at the low end of the expected range, according to a market source. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120201/tc_nm/us_nokia_ollila nm/20120201/us_nokia_ollila Reuters technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:36:28 GMT Reuters - A major revamp at Nokia that includes a deal to use Microsoft Corp software in its smartphones will impact the earnings of the Finnish handset maker throughout most of this year, Chairman Jorma Ollila said on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120201/tc_nm/us_opentext nm/20120201/us_opentext Reuters technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:32:29 GMT Reuters - Business software company Open Text posted a 28 percent jump in second-quarter profit on Wednesday on solid demand from services, technology and financial customers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_appolicious_com_articles10919_apple_engineers_heavy_into_near_field_communication_for_iphone_5_rumor_says/44367260/SIG=13sp7kb6n/*http://www.appolicious.com/tech/articles/10919-apple-engineers-heavy-into-near-field-communication-for-iphone-5-rumor-says appolicious_rss/20120131/http___www_appolicious_com_articles10919_apple_engineers_heavy_into_near_field_communication_for_iphone_5_rumor_says Appolicious technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:52:00 GMT Appolicious - Near-field communication seems poised to be the next major technology to sweep the smartphone market. Already there are smartphones running Google's Android operating system that contain the technology, and we recently heard about a chip embedded in a smartphone case that brings the capability to any current iPhone. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120131/wr_nm/us_ukraine_website nm/20120131/us_ukraine_website Reuters technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:36:48 GMT Reuters - Ukrainian police on Tuesday shut down the former Soviet republic's most popular file sharing website, Ex.ua, accusing its owners of illegally distributing copyright-protected software, music and videos. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120131/wr_nm/us888 nm/20120131/us888 Reuters technology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:57:15 GMT Reuters - 888 Holdings Plc said a unit of private equity-owned Caesars Entertainment Corp extended its UK software licensing agreement with the British online gaming company to the United States. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120130/wr_nm/us_symantec_hacking nm/20120130/us_symantec_hacking Reuters technology Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:25:32 GMT Reuters - Symantec Corp said it is safe to use its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs after it asked customers last week to disable the product because it put them at greater risk of being hacked. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120130/tc_nm/us_sap_ceo nm/20120130/us_sap_ceo Reuters technology Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:07:42 GMT Reuters - SAP, the world's largest maker of business software, may license its HANA offering to main rival Oracle in the future, its co-chief executive told a German newspaper. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120129/bs_nm/us_global_economy_weekahead nm/20120129/us_global_economy_weekahead Reuters business Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:04:51 GMT Reuters - Delivery trucks wear out, computers break down, software becomes outdated -- and finally businesses have to start investing in new equipment. Companies that want to remain competitive have to start spending again as an economy slowly recovers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120127/tc_nm/us_docomo nm/20120127/us_docomo Reuters technology Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:54:12 GMT Reuters - NTT DoCoMo Inc (9437.T) will ask Google Inc to modify its Android operating system so that smartphones using it would put less pressure on networks, a move that could spark wider protests against the leading mobile software platform, the Nikkei reported. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120126/tc_nm/us_mcafee_symantec nm/20120126/us_mcafee_symantec Reuters technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:33:43 GMT Reuters - Security software maker McAfee rejected a claim that several large corporate customers had recently switched over to using products from rival Symantec Corp. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10883_more_users_watch_netflix_movies_on_tablets_than_pcs/44317836/SIG=134s1cs8h/*http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/10883-more-users-watch-netflix-movies-on-tablets-than-pcs appolicious_rss/20120126/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10883_more_users_watch_netflix_movies_on_tablets_than_pcs Appolicious technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:50:00 GMT Appolicious - Last year, streaming movie service Netflix finally got its Android app released and working reliably on lots of different devices that run Google's mobile operating system. More than six months later, Netflix has announced that viewing on tablets has surpassed viewing on PCs. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120126/wr_nm/us_tablets_research nm/20120126/us_tablets_research Reuters technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:18:25 GMT Reuters - Tablet computers using Google's Android software narrowed the lead of Apple's iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120125/wr_nm/us_symantec nm/20120125/us_symantec Reuters technology Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:34:25 GMT Reuters - Symantec Corp, the top maker of computer security software, reported a higher quarterly profit and issued an outlook in line with Wall Street estimates. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/external/appolicious_rss/rss_appolicious_tc/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10871_analyst_predicts_googles_mobile_ad_revenue_to_hit_5_8_billion_this_year/44304969/SIG=13rnv73eb/*http://www.androidapps.com/finance/articles/10871-analyst-predicts-googles-mobile-ad-revenue-to-hit-5-8-billion-this-year appolicious_rss/20120125/http___www_androidapps_com_articles10871_analyst_predicts_googles_mobile_ad_revenue_to_hit_5_8_billion_this_year Appolicious technology Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:00 GMT Appolicious - Google's Android mobile operating system continues to sweep the world and has a huge number of devices using it, but the way that Google really makes money off the OS and the apps sold for it is through advertising. And one analyst expects that the amount of money Google stands to bring in by targeting ads at Android users to hit $5.8 billion this year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/software/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_guidewire_software_ipo ap/20120125/us_guidewire_software_ipo AP business Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:55:46 GMT AP - Guidewire Software quickly found a following in its stock market debut Wednesday.