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Microsoft disclaimed comments made by Intel software chief Renée James at Intel's Investor Meeting 2011 at the company's Santa Clara, California, headquarters this week. The Redmond firm said that James’ comments on the next version of Windows were "factually inaccurate and unfortunately misleading."

Features of new Windows App Store leaked with screenshots posted by a Chinese website CNBeta.com. The Redmond’s version of an application store will be integrated into the upcoming operating system Windows 8.

The screenshots look much like an Internet Explorer window, with a Top Seller list that includes IE, Office, Freecell and Angry Birds.

In a move to compete with Google which makes updated browsers every six to eight weeks Mozilla announced that it is planning to release four new versions of Firefox this year shortening thus the browser’s cycle. Up to present days Mozilla has released updated versions every 12 to 18 months.

The draft of Mozilla’s Firefox roadmap for 2011 shows that one of the non-profit entity’s priorities is to "ship our new technology to users in smaller bundles, more frequently."

According to a new report Oracle’s Java platform is exceeding Adobe applications as the most attacked software suit. Holly Stewart, a member of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, reported that warned she was seeing “an unprecedented wave of Java exploitation.” By the beginning of this year, the number of Java exploits “had well surpassed the total number of Adobe-related exploits we monitored,” she said.

Google reported last week that while it plans to discontinue its Wave service it will save Google Wave as a stand-alone application. The service will lose its integration with Gmail, but will still give active Wave participants a place to use and modify new and existing Wave’s after the service shuts down at the end of the year.

Google and other industry experts believe that the lawsuit launched by Oracle against Android is not just an attack on the search giant but it targets open source Java community.

Microsoft announced the end of its discount licensing program that has been very popular among companies’ workers wanting cheaper copies of Office products. The Redmond said its Employee Purchase Program (EPP) terminates in November after 7 years.

EPP has been available to customers buying Microsoft's products under its volume licensing programs.

Microsoft cited declining customer demand for its decision to kill EPP, but noted the vast majority — 90 per cent — of licenses purchased were for its Office suite.

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu Ltd announced that it would allow software makers to test their programs on its hardware for free so that they could examine performance. The company hopes such testing would boost sales of its computer servers with an aim to double such sales to about 10 billion yen ($114 million) by the financial year starting next April.

Software developers in turn will be able to promote their products to prospective clients such as manufacturers, a Fujitsu spokeswoman said.

A new report from PandaLabs says that the same malware that infects iPhones can easily infect the iPad.

"This doesn't mean we're about to face an avalanche of infections. We have always stated that as Apple increases its market share, cyber-crooks will begin to show more interest in targeting the platform," said Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs.

"However, we are certainly beginning to see more proofs of concept, and so advise all Mac users to follow the manufacturer's recommendations to maximize security on their operating systems."

Google can now boast about its new feature for mobile devices, namely the iPhone and Android. Just launched service lets users utilize Google Search to quickly find native applications from the App Store and Android Market.

For the laziest Asus laptops users who are also devoted to Amazon's Kindle book-reading app, the companies now offer some Asus models with the Kindle app pre-loaded. So, the user doesn’t need to download and install the PC version of Amazon's free Kindle app on his Netbook anymore.

Since Google showed off its new Android Cloud to Device Messaging service that’s a part of Android 2.2 at Google I/O , everyone has been talking about the ability to push Android to their devices.

Actually, the service let owners of the Android devices automatically send links from the computer to the handset.

SmileOnMyMac makes your typing easier by launching the ultimate macro tool, TextExpander 3.

TextExpander 3 enables users to create snippets of frequently used text or images, then instantly paste said snippets into any app simply by typing an abbreviation.

The new tool offers a new snippet creation window accessible via a keyboard shortcut, which can save user’s time while he’s creating a snippet that can save you even more time.

A group of experts from more than 30 entities was collected by the SANS Institute and Mitre in a move to press on the software vendors to make them liable for defects in the developed applications. The group wants the software developers to do a better job at releasing secure code.

Google is currently working out the new software that translates foreign text captured by a phone camera.

The new Google’s Android software was demonstrated today at Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show in Barcelona. After an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running software, a phone app sent the shot to Google's servers, which sent a translation back to the phone.

Thus, an application translated "Fruhlingssalat mit Wildkrautern" as "Spring salad with wild herbs."