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Microsoft Bids for Search Software Firm (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Microsoft’s $1.2 billion bid for a Norwegian search software company is seen as an effort to add tools to its lucrative Office products and fend off Google.

Verizon's New Voyager Looks Like the iPhone, But Software Is Inferior (WallStreet Journal via Yahoo! Finance) - Verizon's new Voyager looks remarkably like the iPhone and even beats Apple's product in certain respects. But the Voyager suffers badly in the area where Apple's phone shines: software.

Opthalmic buys software company (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - A new subsidiary of Ophthalmic Imaging Systems Inc. has paid $500,000 for the assets of a medical software company that had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Progress Software Exec Exercises Options (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - A senior vice president of business software developer Progress Software Corp. exercised options for and sold 19,125 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

CES: Hitachi upgrades software to blunt wear on DVR storage (Computerworld Singapore) - Hitachi Ltd. today unveiled an upgraded version of its Audio-Visual Storage Manager software at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

NovaStar unit settles claims of unlicensed software use (BizJournals) - NovaStar Mortgage Inc. paid $112,000 to the Business Software Alliance to settle claims that the company had used unlicensed software on its computers. (NFI)

Acronis announces backup and recovery software for SQL server, Oracle and Exchange (Computer Technology Review) - Jan 08 — Acronis, Inc. recently announced a new family of backup and recovery software specifically designed for databases, including SQL Server, Oracle and MS Exchange.

12 Companies Nabbed by the Business Software Alliance - 12 Companies Caught, Nabbed by the Business Software Alliance ... (Baseline) - Already forgotten Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report? Here’s another kind of "cheater's" list that companies will want to avoid. Here are 12 companies who have been fined by the Business Software Alliance for not playing by the rules of asset management.

HungrySeacow offers 25% off software sale (MacNN) - HungrySeacow Software is holding a 25 percent-off sale to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its recipe management application, YummySoup! The software offers an intuitive new way to import recipes from any website with support for automatic Web imports for AllRecipes.com; Deliaonline.com; Epicurious.com; FoodAndWine.com; FoodNetwork.com; LightA...

China develops world's 1st Tibetan-language office software (People's Daily) - China has released the world's first Tibetan-language office software, in an effort to facilitate the use of computers among Tibetans. The newly released "Neo-shine Tibet Office 3.0", jointly developed by China Standard Software Cor ...