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Microsoft finalizing Web-based software for small businesses (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. is preparing to officially release software that helps small companies do things like build a Web site and maintain business contacts, and plans to link the product to its platform for selling online advertising.

MenuVantage Becomes 1st Menu Selling Software to Utilize Certified Interface with both ADP and Reynolds & Reynolds (The Auto Channel) - for immediate RELEASE For additional information contact: Sara West-Callahan Phillip Battista Carter-West Public Relations Co-CEO MenuVantage LLC Phone: 949-493-0244 Fax: 949-248-1764 Phone: (908) 222-4020 EXT 206 email: swest@earthlink.net email: philbsp@msn.com MenuVantage Becomes 1st Menu Selling Software to Utilize Certified Interface with both ADP and Reynolds & Reynolds Interface Provides

IBM tops Oracle in sales / Acquisitions boost it to 2nd place as software profit rises (San Francisco Chronicle) - It's hard to imagine, during a week in which Oracle has 42,000 customers jamming San Francisco hotels, restaurants and taxicabs, but IBM is now the world's second-largest software company. Thanks to spending $10 billion on acquisitions since 2001,...

Microsoft Releases Financial Management Software For Startups (Microsoft Watch) - Microsoft has released its financial management software designed for early startups and home-based businesses. The product, Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007, is desktop software that can be downloaded at no cost.

NIC to develop software for VAT (Deccan Herald) - The Department of Commercial Taxes has asked the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to develop a software to process Value Added Tax (VAT), Commissioner of Commercial Taxes B A Harish Gowda has said.

An Argument Against Software Patents (Slashdot) - clndnng writes "Roughly 90% of web content consists of discussions of software patents, so it's a little surprising that Ben Klemens has written what may be the first dead-trees book analyzing their validity. It has a lot of ground to cover: you could approach the topic from the perspective of the geeks, the lawyers, the economists, or the businessmen. Klemens is equal-opportunity, addressing

Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software? (Slashdot) - PreacherTom writes, "Pentagon officials report that 'maliciously placed code' could compromise the security of the Defense Department and, ultimately, hurt its ability to fight wars. The culprits: offshore programmers. While the Pentagon has stepped up its vendor screening and software testing of late, it's becoming more difficult and costly to test every line of software code on increasingly

Goldman Sachs software analyst Sherlund leaving (CNNMoney.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Rick Sherlund, a Goldman Sachs partner and veteran software analyst who has covered Microsoft since it went public, plans to leave the Wall Street firm to work in money management, a news report said Saturday.

Spy tool is powered by Wikipedia software (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - WASHINGTON - The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have created a new computer system that uses software from a popular Internet encyclopedia site to gather input on sensitive topics from analysts across the spy community, part of an effort to fix problems that plagued prewar estimates on Iraq. The new system, dubbed "Intellipedia" because it is built on open-source software from the

Submitting Software and Information (All About Symbian) - FluencyPal is a speech therapy software application that helps reduce stuttering. It records what a person speaks and plays back with a small delay through the headset or speaker.