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If you haven’t already downloaded the latest mandatory AVG 2011 Free software update, it may be best not to if you want your computer to turn on again. The December 1 update is causing 64-bit PCs running Windows 7 to totally breakdown. The problem appears to lie in the 271.1.1/3292 (432/3292) database update, which requires PCs that run the update to restart. Affected PCs will throw up a c0000135 error upon restarting, and fail to boot. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive Software Inc says digital and mobile games are likely to make up a substantially larger portion of its business in coming years as the game market expands into new formats and devices. Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick told Reuters Insider that although digital and mobile currently make up less than 10 percent of revenue, he estimated that could grow to 25-30 percent "over time." "I ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department should put conditions on Google Inc's proposed purchase of airline ticketing software company ITA Software Inc, Senator Herb Kohl, head of a senate antitrust panel, said in a letter on Wednesday. Kohl said the $700 million deal could end up depriving travel websites such as Expedia, Orbitz, Kayak and TripAdvisor of critical software. "Many of ITA's customers believe that access ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc's creation of a mobile application store two years ago set off a frenzy of software development -- in short order consumers could download apps for everything from high finance to burping sounds. Today, the top application stores, those run by Apple and Google Inc, are in jeopardy of becoming victims of their own success. So many apps exist that the stores can feel overwhelming, turning into flea markets that confuse shop ...

December is here, and as bundles of gifts slowly accumulate under Christmas trees, bundles of Mac software are also emerging throughout the Web. If you’re looking for hefty savings on Mac software, we can point you to three new bundles on the market, all of which combine numerous apps from various developers and price them at a fraction of their combined value. MacPromo’s time-saver bundle features 10 utilities that aim to increase your productivity on you ...

TORONTO (Reuters) – Research In Motion is seeking to shut down Kik Interactive, a software startup founded by a former employee whose cross-platform instant messaging service rivals RIM's BlackBerry Messenger. Kik Messenger, much like RIM's Messenger, allows smartphone users to see when a message has been sent, delivered, read and when it is being replied to in real-time. But while BBM, as the RIM product is popularly known, only a ...

IGG Software has released a free update to its Mac-only personal finance management software, iBank, giving it a number of improvements, including additional report templates, the ability to import CSV data, and new contextual menus. iBank 4 lets you monitor your account balances at a glance; track your investments; maintain budgets; and manage your credit cards, savings, checking, and loans. You can also generate reports on your account balances, spendin ...

The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week. The repository holds the pages for the organization's Gnu.org website, which the attackers altered last weekend. They also downloaded all the user names and encrypted passwords. None of the Gnu software projects on the server have been compromised as part of the attack, said Matt Lee, FSF's campaign manager. ...

StatCounter released a report Wednesday suggesting that the rise of Google's Android operating system and the resilience of Research In Motion's BlackBerry OS are having an impact on Apple's grip on the U.S. smartphone market. RIM overtook Apple to claim the top smartphone OS slot in November with a 34.3 percent market share, beating Apple's iOS for the first time, the Dublin-based web-metrics firm said. StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen noted th ...

The staggering growth of the Android operating system has made the iPhone’s lead in the U.S. smartphone market tenuous, according to the most recent numbers from The Nielsen Company. Apple commanded 27.9 percent of the smartphone market in October, according to Nielsen—virtually identical to its second quarter share of 28 percent. But BlackBerry-maker RIM, the former market leader, saw its share of the pie drop from 35 to 27.4 percent during that same time ...