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Doubling Up on Anti-Virus Software and Keyboard Delay Settings (Washington Post) - Q I've been using Norton AntiVirus, but after reading last week's review of the free AVG and Avast software, I'm thinking of adding them to Norton for another layer of protection . Should I?

Software Shift To Subscriptions, Services Helps To Deter Piracy (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - It often used to be that when a person bought some software he simply got a bunch of disks to keep.

Review: Sage Software ACT 2006 (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Sage Software's updated customer management offering, ACT 2006, adds a new level of integration and ease to customer-relationship management (CRM) applications. Whether working with e-mails, attachments, or appointments, ACT centralizes all your activities with business contacts for easy access. The 2006 version includes an enhanced interface, mobile readiness, and improved integration.

Cognos shares recover after software firm says Q3 EPS to be down from last year (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - OTTAWA (CP) - Shares of Cognos Inc. rose Friday a day after the Ottawa software company warned it expects to see a decrease its third-quarter profits and sales.

HP offers free software (exclusively) to owners of HP iPAQ hw6515 and hw6510 phones ! (MS Mobiles) - Owners of HP iPAQ phone from hw6500 series are in for a treat with free software from HP...

John Vlissides, IBM Software Visionary, Dies (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - John Vlissides, IBM Software Visionary, Dies

Sun Opens Up Enterprise Software (Slashdot) - abscondment writes "Stating that "open source is the future" of the software industry, Sun's President and COO Jonathan Schwartz announced that Sun will be opening its enterprise software in a manner similar to Solaris 10. Sun is opening up the Java Enterprise System, Sun N1 Management software, and Sun developer tools, etc. - practically everything except Java - hoping to lure more developers

IBM Gets Autonomic With Self-Healing Software (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - IBM Tivoli announced its next wave of software that automatically finds and fixes problems.

Gurango Software ties up with foreign software firms (Manila Bulletin) - Gurangao Software Corp. (GSC) has concluded several international agreements with a group of software companies including US-based Techwerks and Horizons International, and Australian-based Spectra Interface.

Free Software Foundation Begins Rewriting the GPL (Slashdot) - Robert writes "The first update to the GNU General Public License in 15 years has begun. Details about the process and guidelines by which it will be updated by the Free Software Foundation, and the free/open source community at large, are now available. The FSF has announced plans to release the first draft of the new license for comment at a conference to be held at the Massachusetts Institute