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Pragmatics to Test Software for Customs, Border Patrol (Washington Post) - Pragmatics Inc. of McLean won a contract potentially worth $65 million over five years for software-testing services for the customs and border-protection agency, part of the Homeland Security Department.

Global Secure Buys Calif. Software Firm (Washington Post) - Global Secure, a Washington homeland security company, paid $20 million in cash and stock last week for a California maker of software that alerts state and municipal health officials and hospitals to bioterrorism and other urgent threats.

Indian software major Wipro acquires US firm for 28 million dollars (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Indian software major Wipro has announced it has bought US-based information technology firm mPower for 28 million dollars cash, its second foreign acquisition this week.

IBM to buy S.F. software firm (San Jose Mercury News) - International Business Machines said Wednesday that it agreed to acquire Micromuse, a San Francisco company that makes software to manage video and voice traffic on computer networks, for about $865 million in cash.

Microsoft fixes patching software glitch (CNET) - Blog: Microsoft has made available a tool to fix a snag that hit some users of its Software Update Services tool. SUS is an older...

JDA lands Hudson News software deal (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - JDA Software Group Inc. will provide retail software services to the company which runs the Hudson News kiosks found in airports across the country.

OverDrive Announces Media Kiosk Software (EContent Magazine) - Digital media vendor OverDrive has announced OverDrive Media Kiosk Software, an application that enables Internet connected PCs to become self-service download stations for audiobooks and music.

Software company secures patents (Austin Business Journal) - Austin Logistics Inc. received two patents, the Austin software company said Thursday.

Guidance Software hacked claim - alerts Secret Service (Addict 3D) - A MEMO SEEN by the INQUIRER and which appears to be from the CEO of Guidance Software, John Colbert, purports that credit card numbers and names were extracted from the firm, prompting a security scare.

I.B.M. to Buy Software Company for $865 Million (New York Times) - I.B.M. will buy Micromuse Inc., whose software is used to manage Internet-based computing networks that handle voice and video as well as data.