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District Software Firm Will Buy Biggest Rival (Washington Post) - Blackboard Inc., a District company that sells online education software, has agreed to buy its biggest rival, WebCT Inc., in a $180 million deal that strengthens eight-year-old Blackboard's position in a growing market.

Three charged in massive US music, software piracy scheme (AFP via Yahoo! News) - A federal grand jury indicted three men on charges of music and software piracy in what the recording industry says is the largest CD manufacturing seizure in the United States, authorities said.

SAP Ships Preconfigured Software Packages For Midsize Firms (ChannelWeb) - SAP unveiled packages of preconfigured software and services that cover 28 business processes for midsize companies in a variety of industries.

SAP Ships Preconfigured Software Packges For Midsize Companies (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - SAP AG unveils packages of preconfigured software and services that cover 28 business processes for midsize companies in a variety of industries.

Bennelong Asset Management Selects Imagine Software to Support Launch of New Fund, and more (Finance Technology Network) - Bennelong Asset Management has selected Imagine Software's Derivatives.com to support the launch of its new hedge fund. Imagine Software is a provider of full-service hosted trading and risk management solutions for the global financial industry.

Bennelong Asset Management Selects Imagine Software to Support Launch of New Fund, and more (Wall Street and Technology) - Bennelong Asset Management Selects Imagine Software to Support Launch of New Fund, Odyssey Asset Management Systems partners with Numcom Software

Xoft Signs an Agreement for Distribution of Varian Medical Systems' BrachyVision Treatment Planning Software (RedNova) - DENVER, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Xoft, Inc., developer of the Axxent(TM) Electronic Brachytherapy System, announced that it has signed a software distribution agreement with Varian Medical Systems.

Deployment Of Software-As-Service (SaS) Solutions By SMBs About To Explode (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - The number of software-as-service (SaS) offerings has grown exponentially over the past few years, according to a recent study by AMI-Partners, which estimates that there are currently more than 500 vendors offering SaS solutions in North America alone. Use of such services is set to increase rapidly, especially in the construction, healthcare, and financial services markets.

Symantec Ups Software Renewal Prices (BetaNews) - Without any public announcement, Symantec earlier this week raised prices on its renewal licenses for its software by as much as a third. The move could be an attempt to maximize profits one last time before Microsoft enters the security software space next year, analysts say.

Contest awards cash for open source vehicle software (Linux Devices) - The latest news & announcements about Linux based embedded applications ... Keywords: Match: Sort by: A contest to develop open source software for vehicles will award $32,000 in prizes next July. The 2006 International Open Source Embedded Software Competition (IOSESC) is sponsored by MontaVista, Taiwan National Science Council, and the Open Source Software Foundry (OSSF), and is the first of a