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Large Chinese enterprises move to use copyrighted software, official says (Eastday.com) - More than 1,500 large Chinese enterprises have installed copyrighted software since April 2006, said Liu Binjie, director of the General Administration of Press, in Beijing yesterday.

Party's over for plain software geeks: UST Global chief (Indian Express Finance via Yahoo! India News) - Within 10 years, the IT offshoring brigade that leverage on value will walk away with the cream of Indian outsourcing business from the cost-squeezing firms, predicts Dan Gupta, chairman of the North America-based UST Global. The current thrust on low-end software coding should go. The best of deals on well-paying segments like engineering design, global network management, e-commerce are ...

ATopTech, Broadcom in software deal (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - ATopTech Inc. said Monday it entered a "multi-million dollar per year" contract with fabless semiconductor company Broadcom Corp. to incorporate its place and route software for designing integrated circuits into Broadcom chips.

Constellation Software Inc. to buy Sympro from JPMorgan Chase (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) - TORONTO - Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU) continued its acquisition streak Monday after announcing it would buy California-based software firm Sympro Inc. from JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) for an undisclosed price.

Ball Aerospace releases free satellite software (BizJournals) - Satellite-builder Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. released the company's first open-source software platform Monday, giving people access to the same software used by government scientists and intelligence experts to analyze data and images collected by satellites. (BLL)

Software Vendors Accuse Prestigious Law Firm Of Piracy (InformationWeek) - The SIIA charged in a lawsuit that law firm Fox Rothschild is stealing software made by Adobe, Corel, Sonic Solutions, and Symantec.

Open Source Software Developers Sue Verizon, Claim FiOS Violates GPL (InformationWeek) - The Software Freedom Law Center says the offending software code can be found in Verizon's Actiontech MI424WR wireless router.

Software Defined Radio Can Help Public Safety Groups Use 700 MHz Band (InformationWeek) - Software-defined radio technology can help public safety agencies and commercial interests share the 700 MHz band, one group argues.

A back-to-the-future strategy for software as a service (Computerworld Singapore) - Updated: 11 Dec 2007 One of the potentially hottest items in the software aisle of U.S. electronics retailers this Christmas season is, if you ask Santa's load-bearing reindeer, just an empty box.

The Free Software Foundation's "High Priority" List: A Key Guidepost (Datamation) - The FSF's high priority list of desired improvements for the desktop is a reliable guide to the state of free software, and an invaluable resource for the GNU/Linux watcher.