Software News

One day after warning of a new attack on its Reader and Acrobat software, Adobe issued a security advisory Tuesday offering users some advice on how to mitigate the problem. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Adobe Systems Inc. said Tuesday that although it booked a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter, consumer demand improved and allowed the maker of Photoshop and Flash software to post an optimistic outlook for the current period. Full Story »

RALEIGH, N.C. - Software company Red Hat Inc. will pay $8.8 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to the restatement of financial results from July 2004. Full Story »

Just a month after launching a beta micro-blogging web site in the Chinese market, Microsoft has temporarily suspended the Twitter-like blog amid accusations that it copied code from a similar service. Plurk, a startup in China, says the software giant copied 80 percent of its code to create the Juku micro-blog. Full Story »

On Monday, IBM came under legal fire from Neon Enterprise Software. The company filed a lawsuit alleging that Big Blue is blocking System z mainframe owners from using its zPrime software. Full Story »

Citrix has developed disaster recovery software that uses Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to help automate and speed the recovery process. Full Story »

Microsoft's Juku service in China did indeed steal code from Plurk, a popular Twitter rival in Asia, the software giant admitted on Tuesday. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Adobe Systems Inc. is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, closing out a year that saw the economic turmoil dampen demand for Creative Suite 4, the software package that brings in much of the company's revenue. Full Story »

San Francisco - With a technology preview on Tuesday, Mainsoft seeks to link business persons into the software development process by integrating the IBM Rational Team Concert collaborative environment and IBM's Lotus Connections collaboration platform. Full Story »

Adobe is investigating new reports that hackers are attacking a previously unknown bug in the latest version of the company's Reader and Acrobat software. Full Story »

WALTHAM, Mass. - Novell Inc. said Monday that it will condense its four business units into two in an effort to streamline operations. The company, which sells computer-networking software and technology services, also said that two executives will leave. Full Story »

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has brought a copyright lawsuit against 14 consumer electronics companies for allegedly violating GNU General Public License (GPL) in the use of GPL-licensed software in their products. Among those named in the suit are Best Buy, JVC, Western Digital Technologies and Westinghouse. Full Story »

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU's competition watchdog on Monday welcomed concessions made by US business software giant Oracle over its bid for Sun Microsystems, saying the deal is now likely to be approved. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Adobe Systems Inc. reports earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. Full Story »

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU regulators signaled they could clear Oracle Corp's $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc , after the U.S. software company promised measures to ease competition concerns. Full Story »

The Software Freedom Law Center on Monday filed a copyright infringement suit against 14 top consumer electronics companies, including Samsung and JVC. Full Story »

BRUSSELS - European Union regulators looked closer to approving Oracle Corp.'s takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. when they said Monday that the company's stated commitment to open-source database software was "an important new element." Full Story »

Microsoft has fixed a problem in Office 2003 that prevented the software from opening documents saved using its access control technology. Full Story »