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InfoWorld – Matching up critical components in the SOA space, SOA Software, which provides SOA governance automation, said Monday it has acquired SOA repository and governance vendor LogicLibrary.

AP – Hewlett-Packard Co. is negotiating to buy technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. in a deal that could help the world’s largest personal computer maker snap up more data management and consulting contracts.

AP – Will people remember three-second video ads on their mobile phones? Do high-definition commercials on big screens get people’s hearts racing more than other pitches? Is the sports ticker crawl distracting or does it add value to the 30-second TV spot?

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Reuters – Time Warner Inc’s HBO cable
network is expected to start selling shows on Apple Inc’s

PC World – Nokia is extending its mobile navigation system to the Web via its Ovi.com site, where people will be able to save map…

Reuters – NBC Universal said
Monday that it is forming the Digital Health Network, a group
of Web sites that will distribute health-focused videos
produced by the network.

Reuters – Any Star Trek fan knows that space
travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make
traveling the “final frontier” as simple as turning on your
computer.

AFP – Google has set out to enable all websites, free of charge, to be imbued with common social networking features as the Internet evolves toward becoming a giant community along the lines of MySpace or Facebook.

AP – Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.

Macworld.com – Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would restore support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite’s cross-platform automation functionality.

Macworld.com – Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would restore support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite’s cross-platform automation functionality.

Macworld.com – Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would restore support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Microsoft Office for Mac, a direct result of complaints from users about the removal of the suite’s cross-platform automation functionality.

PC World – Japan’s Pioneer plans to end production of plasma display panels as part of a restructuring program to return its operations…

PC World – Microsoft’s reluctance to make its Office suite interoperable with competing products has prompted a British government agency…

PC World – Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said…

AP – The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd. Following similar moves by the two biggest online hangouts, Internet search leader Google Inc. is introducing tools that are supposed to make any Web site more sociable.

USATODAY.com – Disney wants to awaken sales of the Blu-ray Disc format, and the studio knows it’ll take more than a kiss to get the job done. In October, Disney will release its first animated classic on the high-definition video format, Sleeping Beauty, with high-tech viewing options not possible with DVD.

PC World – Engineers testing a recently launched Japanese data communications satellite have succeeded in establishing a two-way Internet…

PC World – One in four respondents to a new US corporate IT spending survey by ChangeWave Research said their company will spend less on…

AFP – Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans Tuesday to buy Electronic Data Systems in a tie-up that creates a global powerhouse in computer services to compete against IBM.

Reuters – More than one-third of workers would
choose their mobile phone over their wallet, keys, laptop or
digital music player if they had to leave the house for 24
hours and could take only one item, a new survey has found.

NewsFactor – On Tuesday, Apple and HBO struck a deal to offer popular cable programs for purchase and download at Apple’s iTunes Store.

AFP – Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. unveiled Tuesday a mobile phone it said was designed make web-browsing as easy as making phone calls, with the device seen as a rival to Apple’s upcoming iPhone2.

AP – EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once touted as a model for how big cities should deploy Wi-Fi.

NewsFactor – Apple’s iPhone continues its march around the world, with new announcements of deals with carriers in the Asia region and Australia.

AP – A British watchdog agency said Tuesday it had complained to European Union regulators that Microsoft Corp.’s new file format for storing documents discouraged competition.

AP – Dan Hesse, chief executive officer at Sprint Nextel Corp. for less than five months, faced tough questions Tuesday about the company’s continued trouble keeping wireless subscribers.

PC World – Small businesses can get fiber connections from AT&T as fast as 10 Mbps downstream for $100 per month, and receive a Wi-Fi gateway and Wi-Fi hotspot access as the cherry on top.

PC World – Microsoft on Tuesday revealed pricing details for a new server software bundle aimed at midsize companies and the next version…

AFP – France’s Larousse publishing house on Tuesday launched an online French-language encyclopedia offering free access to its dictionary and inviting users to contribute content, aiming to rival Wikipedia.

Reuters – Sprint Nextel Corp faced
multiple questions about how it would turn the company around
and stop customers from fleeing its cell phone service at its
annual shareholder meeting, where voters only narrowly rejected
one proposal that would have let them call special meetings.

AP – Federal regulators should throw out fines imposed against Circuit City Stores Inc. for violating rules regarding next year’s switch from analog to digital television, the consumer electronics retailer said in a filing Tuesday.

Reuters – Online classifieds leader
Craigslist.com on Monday filed a countersuit against business
rival eBay Inc, alleging eBay had used its minority stake in
Craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets.

Reuters – Electronic Arts Inc
posted a bigger quarterly net loss on Tuesday due to
restructuring costs, but net revenue beat Wall Street
expectations, driven by titles such as “Rock Band” and “Army of
Two.”

AP – Craigslist is countersuing its minority owner, eBay Inc., alleging it is competing illegally, infringing on their trademark and breaching its duty to shareholders.

AP – Apple Inc. has scooped up Time Warner Inc.’s HBO to feed television shows to its online iTunes store, reeling in one of the last holdouts among major channels and agreeing to a rare pricing concession to land hit shows like “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City” and “The Wire.”

AP – Eight months into his tenure as CEO of Electronic Data Systems Corp., Ronald Rittenmeyer is overseeing the sale of the company, something he says he never planned.

NewsFactor – Building on the success of its Wii game console, Nintendo has launched WiiWare, a software service for games. Wii owners who have their machines hooked up to an Internet connection will be able to download games from both large developers and small shops. As a game service, WiiWare competes with services on other consoles, such as Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade and Sony’s PlayStation Store.

NewsFactor – Apple is selling more Macintosh computers than ever before—and that’s having unexpected benefits for Microsoft. Sales of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac are triple the volume for the previous 2004 version of the productivity software and are the highest in the product’s history, Microsoft announced Tuesday.

PC World – The latest version of the community-supported branch of Red Hat Linux offers new features and an improved UI.

AP – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly is snapping up Yahoo stock in preparation for a possible attempt to replace the Internet company’s board after the directors turned down Microsoft’s $47.5 billion takeover offer.

AP – Losing the audio feed during “Monday Night Football” may seem like a crisis for some sports fans, but it’s nothing compared to losing the signal that monitors a critically ill hospital patient.

AP – The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $234 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever, The Associated Press has learned.

Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co plans to
buy technology outsourcing company Electronic Data Systems Corp

PC World – The idea that Microsoft, in order to revamp its Internet business, would buy Yahoo seemed surreal when rumors first surfaced…

NewsFactor – Two king-pins in the technology industry announced Tuesday a merger agreement valued at $13.9 billion, with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) set to acquire computer consulting firm Electronic Data Systems Corp. (NYSE: EDS) in an effort to compete more aggressively with rival IBM in the technology services business.

PC Magazine – He can’t. Not yet. The Vista legacy simply doesn’t suit the onetime software maverick.