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SAP has been hit with a $1.3 billion fine for downloading software from rival Oracle. In a statement, Oracle president Safra Catz said the judgment was the largest amount ever awarded for software piracy. "For more than three years, SAP stole thousands of copies of Oracle software and then resold that software and related services to Oracle's own customers," Catz said. "Right before the trial began, SAP admitted its guilt and li ...

OAKLAND, California (AFP) – A US jury has ordered German business software giant SAP to pay US rival Oracle 1.3 billion dollars in damages in a record-setting copyright infringement award. "We're ecstatic," said Geoffrey Howard, a partner with the Bingham McCutchen law firm, a member of the Oracle trial team. "The jury recognized the value of the intellectual property stolen by SAP." Oracle attorneys called the copy ...

Enterprise software provider SAP is stepping up its security stance as its once-isolated systems become increasingly connected to the Internet, posing new risks as hackers diversify their targets. SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) software are often the core management tools for large enterprises, used for functions such as managing payroll, creating purchases orders, invoicing, and paying suppliers, among ot ...

Companies including Mozilla, Opera Software, Palm and Sony Ericsson are trying to accelerate the use of Web standards when developing applications for smartphones. Using HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript to develop applications that run in the browser holds the promise of applications that work on different platforms, making life easier for both developers and users. Developers can write an application once and users can switch to a new phone ba ...

Another holiday season has arrived and it's going to pass once again without a netbook running Google's Chrome operating system. An optimistic rumor that appeared this month in Digitimes, a Taiwanese online publication with its finger on the pulse of the component industry, was dashed last week by Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, who told reporters at the Web 2.0 summit that netbooks running the OS wouldn't be available for at least for few months. ...

Google has begun testing an intriguing plugin for Microsoft Office. Google Cloud Connect is a devastatingly simple concept: rather than save your files to your computer's hard disk, it allows you to save them to your online Google Docs space. Following the upload, the user can share docs with colleagues and more importantly, collaboratively edit them from within the Microsoft Office software window. In other words, the plugin brings the shared editing po ...

(Reuters) – Shares of speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc touched a 2-1/2-year high on Tuesday, after a website posted a video of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak saying the iPhone maker had bought Nuance. The stock rose as much as 12 percent to $19.19, but later pared some gains to trade up 5 percent at $18. More than 9 million shares changed hands by 1 p.m. ET -- five times the normal volume. A video cli ...

Software provided only about 3 percent of Hewlett-Packard's US$126 billion in net revenue during its fiscal 2010, but newly appointed CEO and software veteran Léo Apotheker wants to change that in a big way. Speaking during HP's fourth-quarter earnings conference call on Monday, Apotheker indicated he'd like to see the company double or even triple the amount of money it makes from software, both by investing internally and making acquisitio ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retired Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak said he was "totally wrong" in recently suggesting the iPhone maker had bought speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. Nuance's shares had touched a 2-1/2-year high on Tuesday, after TVDeck.com posted a video showing Wozniak saying Apple bought Nuance. Both companies had declined to comment. "I thought I'd read about it but obviously ...

If you're a Mac developer looking to get the word out on your new app, what better way to do so than by bundling it with other related apps and selling the entire package at a bargain bin price? If you're looking to get into the software bundling game, allow us to point you toward Denver-based BundlesForMac, which will be announcing its first bundle on November 29 and is looking for submissions from interested developers. BundlesForMac is in partnershi ...