NewsFactor - Microsoft now says its Vista Service Pack 1 will become available to some business users before the end of this month — an about-face from the software giant’s earlier announcement of a delay of up to six weeks to fix a performance issue.
Archive for February 12th, 2008
InfoWorld - Sun announced Tuesday that it is buying Innotek, maker of VirtualBox, virtualization software that may have more value for software developers than datacenter administrators.
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) sold 1.08
million units of its “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” software in 11
days since its January 31 launch in Japan, reaching the 1
million mark faster than any other Wii game, a game magazine
publisher said.
AP - Seeking to ferret out online games considered overly violent or unhealthy, China has targeted illegal Web sites, computer markets and Internet cafes as part of a campaign to rein in juvenile crime.
InfoWorld - The LiMo Foundation plans to announce 18 phones based on its platform, including some that are already on the market, on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy’s new wife, former supermodel Carla Bruni, said in an interview published Tuesday that she wants to “keep her personality” in her new position as France’s first lady.
AP - Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced a new mobile phone service that integrates e-mail, instant messaging and social networks.
FT.com - China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, is on Wednesday expected to lend its support to LTE, the wireless broadband standard that looks set to become the flagship 4G technology.
AP - Undeterred by the threat of hostile takeover, slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven Networks Inc. for $160 million.
InfoWorld - Research in Motion still doesn’t know why its BlackBerry service went down for several hours on Monday.
