PC World - Hard on the heels of the Free Software Foundation's Day Against DRM earlier this month, the advocacy organization last week launched a new campaign targeting the Nintendo 3DS.

Reuters - Research In Motion shares neared a two-year low on Monday after the BlackBerry maker said it had recalled about 1,000 of its Playbook tablet computers due to an operating system flaw.

PC World - The company threatening to sue third-party iOS developers if they don't obtain license rights for a patent relating to iOS' in-app purchase mechanism recently posted a Q & A series on its blog. The licensing company, Lodsys, started sending letters on Friday to at least seven smaller iOS developers demanding they pay up for using in-app purchases in their iPhone and iPad software.

PC World - SAP is preparing to release a major revamp of its software for EPM (enterprise performance management), a subset of BI (business intelligence) that focuses on areas such as budgeting, planning and compliance, the company announced Monday in conjunction with the annual Sapphire conference in Orlando.

PC World - As if facing lackluster reviews for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet debut wasn't bad enough, now Research In Motion (RIM) is being forced to recall about 1000 tablets due to software problems.

PC World - Nokia will abandon its Ovi mobile services brand as it prepares to sell smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Phone software, it said in a blog posting on Monday.

PC Magazine - Research in Motion announced that it will recall about 1,000 PlayBook tablets due to a software glitch.

Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd has recalled about 1,000 of its Playbook tablets which were shipped with a flawed operating system build that could pose problems during the initial set-up, technology blog Engadget and several other media channels reported.

NewsFactor - SAP is amping up the competition against rival Salesforce.com with its latest release of StreamWork. The cloud-based collaborative application integrates with SAP business software.

PC World - Adobe has released Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android. Flash Player 10.3 represents a pretty significant upgrade for the Adobe software--adding a variety of improvements and features, and giving users more control over their Web-surfing privacy.

PC World - IBM is attempting to lure Oracle database and middleware customers to "move up" to its own software with a new series of enticements, the company announced Friday.

PC World - Open source activists have hit out at the German government for its decision to abandon free software in favor of Microsoft.

AP - In a move to become more competitive in the fast-growing field of video chat, the team behind AOL Inc.'s AIM instant messenger rolled out the first version of a free video chat service on Thursday that doesn't require users to log in or download any software.

Reuters - Finnish software firm Digia said it would cut up to 190 jobs due to restructuring at its major client Nokia.

AP - File-sharing software company LimeWire, which shut down last year after being barred from allowing people to share copyright-protected files online, reached a $105 million out-of-court settlement with the major record labels Thursday, the labels said.

PC World - Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web.

Appolicious - Chrome OS was the focal point for the final day of Google I/O, the annual developers conference held in San Francisco this week. While Google (GOOG) managed to dazzle attendees with forward-thinking discussions of Chrome’s potential, even revealing the Chromebook PC to run Google’s web-based operating system, there seem to be more questions than answers regarding Google’s long term platform goals. On the one hand, Android’s mobile platform has been a runaway hit, incurring a great deal of developer interest. ...

PC Magazine - The Business Software Alliance's annual report on software piracy for 2010 found that piracy has reached record levels, at least as far as revenue is concerned.