http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/51/all xx http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/84195/samsung-wants-put-third-party-apps-cheap-smartphones Samsung is opening up its cheaper smartphones to third-party application developers with the launch of a new software platform it is calling Bada. The first phone running the software will go on sale during the first half of next year, with more products to follow later in the year, the company said on Tuesday. http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/84195/samsung-wants-put-third-party-apps-cheap-smartphones#comments Development Personal tech Software News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:40:13 -0500 ITworld staff 84195 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/business/84196/game-developer-electronic-arts-announces-1500-job-cuts Yesterday the gaming industry was rocked by news that mega-publisher Electronic Arts was spending $300-$400 million on a social media game company while cutting 1500 existing jobs from various in-house development shops. http://www.itworld.com/business/84196/game-developer-electronic-arts-announces-1500-job-cuts#comments Business Software Opinion Electronic Arts video games Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:51:56 -0500 pasmith 84196 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/84127/dell-hp-customers-rage-windows-7-upgrade-delays Dell and HP customers are angry that they have not yet received the Windows 7 upgrades promised them when they purchased new PCs earlier this year, according to messages on the companies' support forums. http://www.itworld.com/windows/84127/dell-hp-customers-rage-windows-7-upgrade-delays#comments Operating systems Software Windows News Windows 7 windows 7 upgrade Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:57:11 -0500 ITworld staff 84127 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/node/84166 Monday was a busy day for Apple updates. Along with the release of Snow Leopard 10.6.2 comes a security update for users of OS X 10.5.8 and OS X Server 10.5.8. http://www.itworld.com/node/84166#comments Operating systems Security Software News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:39:47 -0500 ITworld staff 84166 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/internet/84158/firefox-5-what-we-love-and-hate-about-you Mozilla's Firefox Web browser turned five years old today, and as I took it for a celebratory spin (I'm a recent Chrome convert), it was easy to notice how similar all the major browsers have become in terms of basic functionality. For instance, it's harder to choose one browser over another for the way it treats tabs and windows, as Firefox now lets you drag tabs into separate windows. Nor will privacy nuts find that they can't go incognito in their browser of choice. http://www.itworld.com/internet/84158/firefox-5-what-we-love-and-hate-about-you#comments Internet Software Opinion Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:40:06 -0500 ITworld staff 84158 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/hardware/84154/apple-posts-wireless-keyboard-update-20 If you're using an Apple Wireless Keyboard with OS X 10.5.8 or later, you'll want to install the Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 from Apple. Released on Monday, the firmware update allows you, as Apple puts it in the release notes, to "take advantage of your 2009 aluminum Apple Wireless Keyboard's special features." The release notes are less detailed about what those features might be, but a pretty good guess might be the keyboard's function keys, which offer one-touch access to OS X capabilities including Exposé and Dashboard. http://www.itworld.com/hardware/84154/apple-posts-wireless-keyboard-update-20#comments Hardware Software News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:39:47 -0500 ITworld staff 84154 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/windows/84149/migrate-windows-7-slowly-part-6-itunes In Part 5 of my series on how to migrate to Windows 7 a little bit at a time, you learned a simple way to sync your Firefox and/or Internet Explorer bookmarks. http://www.itworld.com/windows/84149/migrate-windows-7-slowly-part-6-itunes#comments Operating systems Personal tech Software Windows News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:22 -0500 ITworld staff 84149 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/84146/microsoft-brings-silverlight-facebook The two companies' latest collaboration combines Web, client, and social technologies for building apps and services for the social networking site http://www.itworld.com/development/84146/microsoft-brings-silverlight-facebook#comments Development Internet Software News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:21 -0500 ITworld staff 84146 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/84140/apple-releases-mac-os-x-1062 On Monday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.2, the latest update to its Mac OS X operating system. As you might surmise, it contains a number of fixes and feature enhancements for the newest big cat. Apple, as always, recommends 10.6.2 for all users running Snow Leopard. http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/84140/apple-releases-mac-os-x-1062#comments Operating systems Software News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:18 -0500 ITworld staff 84140 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/84139/eu-issues-objections-oracles-sun-acquisition The European Commission has issued its formal "statement of objections" over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Sun said in a regulatory filing Monday. http://www.itworld.com/software/84139/eu-issues-objections-oracles-sun-acquisition#comments Business Open Source Software News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:10:17 -0500 ITworld staff 84139 at http://www.itworld.com