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Rampant software piracy stifles growth - survey (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) - AMSTERDAM, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Software piracy is rampant and hampering economic growth, and it is increasingly in the hands of organised groups which are regarded as legitimate businesses in some countries, a survey said on Thursday.

Post Magazine | News | MASSIVE SOFTWARE ADDS TO MANAGEMENT TEAM (Post Magazine) - LOS ANGELES - Massive Software (www.massivesoftware.com), the developer of animation software for AI-driven characters and digital stunts, has expanded its management team with the recent hiring of former Alias senior manager Nick Divehall, who will serve as VP of business development.

New SOA Software Rolls Out For Left-Out Mainframes (VAR Business) - Hoping to help users and resellers pull mainframes in as a more active participant in service-oriented architectures (SOAs), GT Software has rolled out a set of development tools designed to leverage existing technical resources and programmer skills.

Can open-source software compete with major commercial calendar products? (ZDNet) - OSA Foundation President Mitchell Kapor says Chandler, a free calendar software, could follow in the footsteps of Firefox. Kapor tells CNET News.com's Charles Cooper at the When 2.0 conference that the software could be helpful for small work groups, families and informal groups.

Audeon Announces UFO Software Synth (Harmony Central) - Audeon is proud to announce UFO, a software synthesizer that is the first product to implement TransModal Synthesis™ technology.

FilmLoop Develops Software to Bring eBay Motors Listings Direct to Customers' Desktops; Photocasting Technology Enables (The Auto Channel) - PALO ALTO, Calif.--Dec. 7, 2005--FilmLoop, Inc., a provider of free software that enables people and businesses to broadcast, find, and share digital images, today announced a pilot project with eBay Motors.

Ramesys integrates its applications software biz (India Infoline) - In line with its strategy to maximize on its position as one of the UK's leading IT application companies, Ramesys has sold its education business for an undisclosed amount and is fully integrating its three remaining application software businesses.

IBM Delivers Self-Healing Software for Tivoli Platform (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Adding another element to its autonomic-computing initiative, Big Blue has introduced new self-healing software for the Tivoli platform to detect and fix problems proactively.

XenSource Updates Virtualization Software (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Open-source technology provider XenSource has introduced virtualization software designed to help enterprises manage the growing number of virtual server deployments in their data centers.

Jason Miller: Trusting software (SecurityFocus) - Open-source or closed-source, it's the same issue. Using other people's software has a lot to do with trust. If you don't trust the right people, you're putting yourself at risk.