The industry has been speculating that Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system (released today) would include anti-virus functionality. In reality, the Apple XProtect anti-malware feature defends against just two Trojans, says one security vendor.

Rally Software Development, which offers a hosted service and onsite software for application lifecycle management for agile programming teams, is connecting its platform to Oracle’s JDeveloper IDE for Java development.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate technology-related patent complaints brought by two companies, with the vendors asking the agency to ban the import of a wide range of products using flash memory. In one case, Samsung Electronics of South Korea filed a complaint, and in the second, Samsung is among the targets in the investigation. The two cases involve different types...

Thanks to the App Store and the iPhone’s versatility, Apple’s smartphone combines many different devices into one compact product. In the face of such a juggernaut, is it possible for stand-alone GPS devices, MP3 players, handheld games, low-end digital cameras, and e-readers to survive?

Some users of Palm smartphones are upset that the new Snow Leopard operating system won’t sync Apple computers with Palm OS devices, calling it Apple’s payback for the Palm’s sync of iTunes to the Palm Pre. While the Palm OS is being retired by Palm, there are still many customers using the Palm Treo Pro, the Centro and older Palm devices, which run the Palm OS. Some have used earlier versions...

OpSource on Friday announced a new cloud computing infrastructure service that it says meets the security and management needs of enterprises more effectively than rival offerings. Users get a dedicated “virtual private cloud” of resources, and can determine how much access it has to the public Internet, according to OpSource. The VPC can be connected with users’ on-premise data centers via...

Microsoft will miss its target date for releasing a technical preview of Office Web Apps, the Web-based versions of software in its Office productivity suite. The company had planned to release test versions of the applications in August, but they will not appear before the end of the month, Microsoft confirmed through its public relations firm Friday.

Fueling hopes that the hardware sector will bounce back from the recession in the second half of the year, Intel on Friday said its expectations for third-quarter revenue are higher than its prior forecast due to stronger-than-expected demand for processors and chip sets.

Corporate users are more likely to move to Windows 7 on a piecemeal basis as they replace PCs rather than looking for big budget outlays to cover mass migration, says analyst Michael Cherry.

After a year of hype, Snow Leopard is finally here. But does it have claws? Apple’s newest Mac OS has been billed as an under-the-hood upgrade — a necessary evolution of the operating system. But it’s a little light on new features that Mac users can touch, see, and feel (except, of course, for the mouse that responds to multiple finger gestures).