Tuesday, September 18, 2007

SCO says it's unlikely to survive ... IBM scores 'Symphony' as online Office rival ... AMD announces triple-core processor

TOP STORY
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SCO says there's 'substantial doubt' it will survive
With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM Corp. unravelling, The SCO Group Inc. now says there is doubt that it will remain afloat.


IN THE NEWS
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IBM scores 'Symphony' as free online Office rival
IBM Corp. has spun out productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes as a free stand-alone suite to compete with Microsoft Corp.'s Office productivity suite.

With Microsoft ruling, a precedent for IT in Europe
Microsoft suffered a humiliating legal defeat Monday when it lost a court appeal to overturn the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it.

AMD tries to upstage Intel with triple-core processor
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. added a triple-core desktop processor to its product road map on Monday, looking to upstage rival Intel Corp. ahead of its Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference in San Francisco this week.

Google adds presentations app to hosted suite
Google Inc. plans to add a presentations application to its Web applications suite on Tuesday, delivering on a promise made in April. The suite, until now known as Docs & Spreadsheets, will also be renamed Google Docs on Monday.

New York Times to stop charging for online content
Two years after The New York Times Co. started charging for access to some content on its Web site, the Gray Lady is changing tack and will make the content available for free.

Powerset seeks help online for natural search
Powerset, a startup building a search engine that understands ideas rather than just words, has opened an online lab to tap into the brainpower of a limited number of humans.


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