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Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software (New York Times) - Too many software programs are ugly: inelegant, unreliable and not very useful. Software that satisfies and delights is as rare as a phoenix.

HP Creates New Software Division (Linux World) - HP has created a new division inside its software operation called the Business Information Optimization Group. The new unit will be broken into two groups, a business intelligence group and an information management group. The business intelligence group will handle HP's new BI initiative, Neoview, the enterprise data warehouse that began shipping to select customers in October. This is where ...

Jawi software to revive script (New Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR: The Jawi script will be readable by computers soon. Together with the Education Ministry and Kolej Universiti Teknologi & Pengurusan Malaysia, the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry has developed a software for Jawi.

Investing Systems: "Software Makes Picking Winners in the Stock Market as Easy as Point and Click" (SYS-CON Media) - Investing Systems announced the resultsfrom Friday's scan of the market for the Stock Picker RT software.

E-Learning Software Patent Under Scrutiny (TechNewsWorld.com) - At the request of the Software Freedom Law Center, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday that it will re-examine a patent held by e-learning software company Blackboard. The Software Freedom Law Center, an open source software group, made its request in November on behalf of three open source educational software programs.

IBM Software Aims to Prevent Online Identity Theft (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News) - The open-source Identity Mixer software encrypts data in an effort to provide safe e-commerce.

New IBM Software Lets Consumers Shop Online Anonymously (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - IBM's Identity Mixer software lets consumers use a "token" to make purchases online without revealing personal information.

FTC halts deceptive 'free software' offer (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - A U.S. judge has temporarily halted the marketing practices of a Web-based retailer that advertised to send customers free software, then charged them if they did not return some of it.

Open software group attacks educational software patent (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is going to review the patent held by e-learning software maker Blackboard, in the wake of a challenge by a group advocating open source software.

IBM software hides consumer data trail (InfoWorld) - ( InfoWorld ) - IBM on Friday unveiled a new open source software project, IBM Identity Mixer, or "Idemix," that the company said will mask consumer information exchanged in Web transactions and helping to combat online identity theft. Idemix was created by IBM researchers in Switzerland and will enable consumers to purchase goods online without disclosing sensitive information. The new ...