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PC Magazine – Adobe’s chief technology officer on Wednesday reiterated his belief that applications should be allowed on any operating system, and accused Apple of creating a walled garden of content.

PC Magazine – Hewlett-Packard Co on Wednesday named Microsoft Corp veteran Bill Veghte to lead its enterprise software business.

PC Magazine – Nokia and Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday the first result of their new software collaboration aimed at breaking the dominance of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry in wireless services for corporations.

Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co on Wednesday named Microsoft Corp veteran Bill Veghte to lead its enterprise software business.

PC World – Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced it had appointed former Microsoft executive Bill Veghte to run the company’s software business.

NewsFactor – The browser war between Microsoft and Google has intensified. The software and Internet search giants are going head-to-head in attracting and keeping users of their popular Internet browsers.

NewsFactor – “I want it. I need it. When can I have it?” That was Verizon Wireless’s marketing pitch for the Kin One and Kin Two phones unveiled last month by Microsoft, and on Wednesday the software giant provided the answer.

AFP – Facebook on Wednesday temporarily shut down its online chat feature after a software glitch let people’s friends in the online community see each others’ private chat messages.

AP – Symantec Corp., maker of the Norton antivirus software — reported net income of $184 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss a year earlier, when it wrote down the value of its assets.

AP – Business software maker BMC Software Inc. said Wednesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 43 percent, helped by an income tax benefit.

AP – Synchronoss Technologies Inc., which provides transaction management software for communication companies, said Monday that its first-quarter profit rose 30 percent. The results were ahead of analyst expectations.

PC World – Microsoft has released a new version of its Producer software, fixing a critical security problem that plagued the product for several months.

PC World – Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says.

InfoWorld – The Apache Software Foundation, developer of open source software, on Tuesday is announcing the creation of six Top-Level Projects, including the Apache Traffic Server for caching and Apache Mahout, implementing machine-learning algorithms atop the Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform.

InfoWorld – Software asset management vendor Flexera Software, which has focused on data center systems, will add on Tuesday desktop software management to its portfolio through the acquisition of ManageSoft.

PC World – Central Desktop’s hosted collaboration suite will gain a new component next month designed to let multiple users simultaneously work on the same Microsoft Office documents.

AP – Federal regulators plan to examine whether Apple Inc. is violating antitrust rules by requiring software developers to use Apple programming tools to create applications for the iPhone and iPad.

InfoWorld – WSO2, builder of open source software for SOA deployments, on Tuesday is launching version 3.0 of Carbon, its componentized middleware platform based on OSGi technology.

AP – Sonus Networks Inc., which makes Internet network hardware and software, said Tuesday it narrowed its loss in the first quarter as revenue increased.

NewsFactor – Microsoft may be losing its grip on the Internet browser market. The software behemoth has lost a significant percentage of market share for its Internet Explorer browser according to browser usage reports from market watchers NetApplications and StatCounter. Their research shows Microsoft’s IE browser holding less than 60 percent of the market share.

Reuters – Nokia and Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday the first result of their new software collaboration aimed at breaking the dominance of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry in wireless services for corporations.

NewsFactor – With the growing popularity of Google’s Android operating system, the electronic bookstore announced by the search engine giant — increasingly branching out into other ventures — this week could give Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple a run for their money.

Reuters – Apple Inc has sold 1 million iPads since their April 3 launch, as the company passed that sales milestone faster than many analysts had expected.

NewsFactor – In its latest acquisition, Google has scooped up Bump Technologies. The company is widely known as the developer of BumpTop, a free app that makes a traditional computer desktop look like a real-world desk with stylus interaction.

AFP – Bump Technologies told fans of its 3D desktop computer software on Monday that it has been bought by Google.

PC World – The rancorous lawsuit between SAP and Waste Management has been settled, with the software vendor making an undisclosed, one-time cash payment to the trash hauler, according to court documents and a regulatory filing.

Reuters – IBM said it bought privately held software company Cast Iron Systems to bolster its expertise in cloud computing, an increasingly popular technology that helps companies cut costs by enabling access to software online.