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County still waiting for Mondale's software (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - Three years ago, Ted Mondale's new company signed a $550,000 contract with Hennepin County to provide a computer software program that was supposed to revolutionize the way data from real estate records is made available over the Internet. The revolution is off to a slow start. Though the county has paid $314,000 to Nazca Solutions Inc., which Mondale cofounded as part of a career move from ...

China's software revenue up 22.9 percent in first eight months (People's Daily) - China's software industry reported a revenue of 343.89 billion yuan (45.73 billion U.S. dollars) for the first eight months of this year, up 22.9 percent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Information Indu ...

'Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software' (OS News) - "A lot of bandwidth has been wasted arguing over the lack of usability in open-source software/free software.

Analysts Work on Improved Antivirus Software Test (PC World via Yahoo! News) - Antivirus vendors are closer to agreeing on a new way to test their software after widespread agreement that older antivirus tests can be misleading.

Ticketmaster battles software used by scalpers (Belleville News-Democrat) - Ticketing giant Ticketmaster is taking aim at what it says is a new obstacle for fans hoping to attend concerts by hot acts like Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen and Hannah Montana: computer software that enables brokers and scalpers to swarm the company's Web site and snap up tickets faster than consumers can.

Electronic Arts buys game software company (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Electronic Arts Inc. bought Super Computer International, which makes software used in online video games.

Austin-area kid checks software for chipmaker (CNET) - The third-grader, who started tinkering with tech at age 2, already knows more about software than probably 99.99 percent adults on the planet.

China's software revenue up 22.9% in first eight months (China Economic Net) - China's software industry reported a revenue of 343.89 billion yuan (45.73 billion U.S. dollars) for the first eight months of this year, up 22.9 percent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry .

The Four Freedoms Applied to Software as a Service (Linux Today) - "The Free Software Foundation has defined Four Freedoms related to software. These freedoms apply to users of software, not necessarily developers. In the view of the FSF, these freedoms are ethical in nature, so much so that they argue that software which violates these freedoms is unethical.

Constellation Software acquires Varsity Logistics, a U.S. software company (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) - TORONTO - Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU) said Friday it has completed the acquisition of Varsity Logistics Inc. a privately held software company based in San Francisco, Calif.