Posts Tagged “software”

Apple launches software for interactive textbooks (AP)

By | January 21, 2012

NEW YORK ? Apple says its launching a new version of its iBooks software, tailored to present vivid, interactive textbooks for elementary and high school students on the iPads. IBooks 2 will be able to display books with videos and other interactive features. It’s not clear how Apple plans to get it front of students, [...]

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Oracle sales miss forecasts, shares plunge (Reuters)

By | January 2, 2012

(Reuters) ? Technology giant Oracle Corp’s profit and sales missed Wall Street forecasts, sending its shares plunging 9 percent and raising concerns that a global economic slowdown will hurt tech spending. The company also posted an unexpected sequential decline in the revenue it gets for providing maintenance on its software products — one of the [...]

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Seven charged in alleged Internet ad fraud scam (Reuters)

By | November 10, 2011

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged seven people living in Estonia and Russia with using malicious software to hijack millions of computers worldwide to redirect Internet searches toward online ads. Starting in 2007, the suspects created fake companies that contracted with legitimate advertiser websites to drive Internet traffic toward their Internet pages, [...]

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