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Obama makes play for videogamers (AFP)AFP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made a play for online videogamers, placing campaign advertisements in a series of popular titles from videogame giant Electronic Arts. Full text |
IBM confident on profit, looks to emerging markets (Reuters)
IBM profits up, 'confident' for year (AFP)
Review: `Max Payne' — the name says it all (AP)
IBM services and software sales up as hardware falls (Reuters)
US shifts Visa Waiver Program authorization to Internet (AFP)
Google Open About Kill Switch in Android Phones (NewsFactor)
No interest in Yahoo: Microsoft (AFP)
Nokia to make $2.29 billion payment to Qualcomm (Reuters)
Nokia profit below consensus, outlook soothes market (Reuters)
InfoWorld - Mixing together a m??lange of services, software and marketing, IBM's announcement this week of its Cloud Services Initiative is about putting an organizing construct around all of its cloud offerings, according to one IBM executive. Full text
Reuters - Software group SAP has seen business drop off abruptly, which means third-quarter revenue from software and software-related services was now expected to rise only 13-14 percent, it said on Monday. Full text
NewsFactor - The Facebook duo is no more. One of Facebook's two cofounders is leaving the popular social-networking site. Full text
Reuters - Shares of Oracle Corp , the world's third-largest software maker, slid more than 8 percent to $17.84 on Monday after German rival SAP AG said it saw business drop off at the end of the third quarter. Full text
AP - Verizon Wireless says it is moving forward with plans to acquire Alltel Corp. for $28.1 billion, although the country's financial climate has worsened since the companies reached an agreement four months ago. Full text
AFP - Europe's leading telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, admitted Saturday that it has lost confidential data belonging to 17 million T-mobile clients. Full text
Reuters - Carlos Santana is on tour and has an album coming out, but in an interview with Rolling Stone posted online on Friday the rocker said he sees himself one day heading up a church in Hawaii. Full text
NewsFactor - Nokia has taken the wraps off a new smartphone powered by the latest version of the company's Symbian S60 operating system for mobile devices. By adding the benefits of touchscreen technology to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the company is taking the familiar and giving it a human touch, according to Nokia Senior Vice President Jo Harlow. Full text
Reuters - Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education. Full text
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said. Full text