Posts Tagged ‘software’
Microsoft has been involved in some cases of piracy concerns from the past many months and the recent update regarding that says that Microsoft has won a Chinese court case over some pirated software that was used by some local insurance company. It has been seen that Microsoft is involved in some intellectual property cases in China these days and this success will add up a point for Microsoft in this fight. By announcing the results of this case the Shanghai court ordered Shanghai-based Dazhong Insurance to pay 2.2 million Yuan to Microsoft because of the damages they were giving to Microsoft by using illegal copies of Microsoft’s software.
As the need for GPS navigation devices increases, the leading manufacturers are trying to precede their rivals. TomTom has recently made few upgraded changes in the ONE and XL GPS units, but the best part is that they have not let the prices soar. Thus, improved TomTom GPS units can be attained for lesser prices, now.
The enhanced features include IQ Routes editions and a completely fresh black finish, thus the units look more attractive now. Also, the user interface has been improved a lot; and the coverage of European maps has been increased. The software that has been used plots routes according to the time of day or a week. Thus, the user will get the best route to choose on a Saturday evening, which will be entirely different from the one which will be chosen on a Monday morning. This is nothing less than a “Genius” feature of these newly updated devices.
Microsoft has just announced that the company will provide a free anti-virus and security solution in the second half of the next year.
The software maker says that it will no more sell its all-in-one security and PC management service from the end of June 2009.
The new software has been code-named as Morro and this no-frills program is being considered quite suitable for smaller and less powerful computers.
The new software will support Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP and it will be free to download.
The anti-virus marketplace is replete with big-name players’ likes of McAfee and Symantec and this step is being taken as sales of the OneCare subscription service are weakening. Read the rest of this entry
Craig Berger, who is a FBR Capital Markets analyst, says in his research report that Apple to significantly cut back its iPhone production by 40 percent in Q4.
The company has already predicted to cut its production output by 10 per cent after selling almost seven million phones in the third quarter, however, the current report indicates a much larger figure.
It is unknown how much inventory Apple builds after the successful launch of the iPhone 3G that got far better response than the original iPhone.
If you want securely control your Linux server from the Apple iPhone, there is a piece of software called TouchTerm that is an SSH client basically and terminal emulator for the Apple iPhone.
There is a direct port of the OpenSSL and OpenSSH software to the iPhone and it provides RSA/DSA key-based authentication and public key distribution through email.
There is also an emulator for a VT100 terminal that provides you a standard command line interface and enables curses-based programs like Vi and Top to be used.
