DOCOMO and PacketVideo Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Innovation and Growth in Mobile Multimedia Software and ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

TOKYO & SAN DIEGO----NTT DOCOMO, INC. and San Diego, California-based PacketVideo Corporation, a subsidiary of NextWave Wireless Inc. and a pioneer in wireless and digital home multimedia software and service applications, today announced that DOCOMO has acquired a 35-percent stake in PacketVideo for $45.5 million.

id Software's future lies in the engine power behind Doom, Quake and Rage (Guardian Unlimited)

id Software's reputation was created by its FPS Doom and an independent spirit that its boss believes will remain, despite its acquisition by ZeniMax The news that id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media caused more than a few raised eyebrows when it was sealed last week. Its co-founder John Romero called it "disgusting", and the (quickly retracted) Twitter outburst seemed to reflect the ...

Sunday tips round-up: RM, Hill & Smith, Modern Water (ShareCast)

LONDON (SHARECAST) - RM has diversified into educational software, electronic whiteboards and other educational devices. It has also moved into US markets, where penetration of items such as fully electronic whiteboards is much lower than in the UK.

Corporate affairs (Dawn)

For many in the world of research and development, the biggest threat to science has been the growing dominance of private spending over research. — Dawn

VanceInfo Announces Acquisition of Hong Kong-based CRM Solution and Service Provider (redOrbit)

BEIJING, July 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- VanceInfo Technologies Inc. (NYSE: VIT) ("VanceInfo"), an IT service provider and one of the leading offshore software development companies in China, today announced that it has acquired the operating subsidiaries of TP Corporation Limited ("TP"), a Hong Kong-headquartered provider of Customer Relationship Management ("CRM") solutions and call center ...

DGAP-News: Chinese Patent Granted for MGS’ Method for Gaming and Gaming Systems (Financial.de)

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Is Software Installation on Linux 'Broken'? (TechNewsWorld.com)

You know a controversy is a big one when none other than RMS weighs in with his opinion, and sure enough, that's what happened in the Mono debate late last week. "Debian's decision to include Mono in the default installation, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction," RMS wrote on the Free Software Foundation's site.

Progress Software Launches FUSE Forge to Simplify the Development of Open Source Integration Projects (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

BEDFORD, Mass.----Progress Software Corporation , a global provider of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today launched FUSE™ Forge, a collaborative environment for developing open source projects based on Progress® FUSE™ products.

ANSYS Releases ANSYS Icepak 12.0 Software (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SOUTHPOINTE, Pa.----ANSYS, Inc. , a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced the latest release of ANSYS® Icepak® software, which provides robust and powerful fluid dynamics technology for electronics thermal management.

Say What? ‘Dial Directions’ Acquired By Arabic Language Specialist Sakhr Software (TechCrunch)

Bet you didn't see this one coming. Back in 2007 we wrote about a service called Dial Directions which lets you call a special phone number and verbally ask for directions, which are immediately sent to you via SMS. Today comes news that the company has been acquired by Sakhr Software , a development house specializing in Arabic natural language processing (NLP). And with their powers combined, ...