Google travel deal faces Justice Dept scrutiny (AP)
AP - Federal regulators are taking a closer look at Google Inc.'s plans to buy travel technology company ITA Software Inc. in a $700 million all-cash deal announced last month.
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ArcSight shares shoot up after buyout report (AP)
AP - Shares of ArcSight Inc. got a boost Friday after a report in the Wall Street Journal said the provider of network security software and services could be sold as soon as next week.
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Mariner Software releases Narrator 2.1 (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - The Narrator text-to-speech utility has a new version from its new owner. Mariner Software unveiled Narrator 2.1, which promises to improve upon OS X’s built-in voice synthesis features.
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DOJ Asks Google for More Data on ITA Acquisition (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Department of Justice has asked Google for more information about its proposed acquisition of travel software firm ITA, the search engine giant said Friday.
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Verizon Rolls Out Android 2.2 to Droid Incredible (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - New "Froyo" operating system speeds up browser, adds hotspot feature.
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FTC Ends Investigation Into P2P Site LimeWire (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into peer-to-peer site LimeWire, though the agency said it remained concerned about the security implications of users running legacy versions of the company's software.
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FTC drops LimeWire ID theft investigation (Reuters)
Reuters - Regulators dropped an investigation into whether LimeWire file-sharing software put users' personal information at risk of identity theft, according to a letter sent to the company earlier this month.
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Intel Eyed McAfee for Years, Gelsinger Says (PC World)
PC World - Intel considered acquiring either Symantec or McAfee for years before it announced last week that it would buy the latter, former Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday.
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Summary Box: Underwater mortgages in US fell in 2Q (AP)
AP - SLIGHT DECLINE: Real estate data provider CoreLogic says the number of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the properties are worth fell slightly between the second quarter and the first three months of this year. It's the second consecutive quarterly decline.
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ePub export comes to Pages in iWork 9.0.4 update (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you’ve been looking for a way to create ePub documents that you can read in iBooks on your iPad or iPhone, then you’re in luck. Apple on Thursday released iWork 9.0.4, an update to its suite of productivity software; chief among the improvements is the ability for Pages to export ePub files.
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Apple releases MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.9 (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Folks who purchased a fancy new Core i5 or i7 MacBook Pro any time since the models were introduced in April can fire up Software Update and snag the EFI Firmware update Apple released on Thursday.
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Novell 3Q misses expectations as revenue dips (AP)
AP - Networking software maker Novell Inc. said Thursday that its third-quarter net income fell as revenue dropped amid customer uncertainty over the company's possible sale.
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DeviceVM App Runs Windows on an Apple iPad (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On Friday, DeviceVM launched Splashtop Remote for the iPad, a pair of client and software apps that allows a user to remotely control a Windows PC via the iPad interface.
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New Boxee beta expands movie library (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Boxee, the much loved media center software, is out with a new beta version. Boxee Beta 0.9.22 now includes an expanded movie library with loads of indie flicks, an indicator that alerts you when you’re offline, support for Google Buzz, and hardware accelerated video-decoding for Snow Leopard.
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Number of underwater mortgages in US fell in 2Q (AP)
AP - Foreclosures are helping to thin the ranks of U.S. homes with mortgages that exceed what the properties are worth, new data shows.
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PaperFinance app offers new features (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you’re looking for a personal finance app for the iPhone, you might give PaperFinance 2 a whirl. IdealSky Software has announced that the latest version, which offers a budget manager, an improved user interface, support for iOS 4, and eye candy like pie charts.
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Women Adopt Mobile Web at Growing Rates, Says Opera (PC World)
PC World - The number of women accessing the Web from their phones is growing faster than the number of males, said Opera Software after surveying users of its Mini browser.
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Cracks in computer defenses abound: IBM (AFP)
AFP - IBM on Wednesday reported that the number of discovered cracks that hackers could exploit in computer software surged in the first half of the year.Read More ...
Web-based OS Glide adds Safari support, 30GB of storage (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - TransMedia’s Web-based Glide operating system has reached version 4.0, and among the new features of the system is compatibility with Apple’s Safari browser.
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Red Hat Offers Its Cloud APIs as Industry Standard (PC World)
PC World - As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday.
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