Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 5:41 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) will pay $410 million
for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker
Symbian and make its software royalty-free to other phone
makers, in response to new rivals such as Google Inc .
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Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 5:41 am, Over one day old
NewsFactor - With many business and individual PC users rejecting Windows Vista, Microsoft took an unprecedented step this week by promising support for Windows XP for a full 13 years. That is three years longer than it has allowed for previous Windows operating systems.
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Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 5:41 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft may have little choice but to support XP for an extended period since most of its business customers have not upgraded to Windows Vista.
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Posted Wednesday June 25, 2008, 5:41 am, Over one day old
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The deal to buy Skywire Software may mark a new phase in Oracle's ongoing competition with SAP to become the world's largest applications vendor.
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