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Two companies settle software copyright claims (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - Two companies, a door manufacturer and a dental laboratory network, have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers.

Microsoft buys mobile software company Danger (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - Continuing its push into the mobile consumer market, Microsoft announced that it plans to acquire Danger, the developer of software and services that run the Sidekick.

New Software Secures Text Messages (PC World via Yahoo! News) - Celltrust developed its SecureSMS application so banks could deliver secure text messages to their customers' mobile phones-- but the company's chief technology officer wonders whether French president Nicolas Sarkozy might like a copy of the software.

Google's Android software debuts in Barcelona (AFP via Yahoo! News) - The first mobile phones fitted with Google's Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a key advance in the struggle to bring the power of desktop computing to handsets.

UTMB says worrisome software runs smoothly (Galveston County Daily News) - GALVESTON — Despite concerns from consultants who rated the project as poor, nearly $32 million in PeopleSoft software is running smoothly, University of Texas Medical Branch officials say.

Seoul broadcaster will use Hawaii software (BizJournals) - PipelineFX, a Honolulu software developer, is selling its Qube software to a major television broadcaster in Seoul, South Korea.

Fast virtual platforms open up multicore software development (EETimes) - As research pushes for better programming models for multiprocessor and multicore (MC) embedded systems, virtual platforms solve one of today's biggest challenges in these systems: software debugging and validation.

ARM offers software for use with graphics processors (EETimes) - Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has said that it has 2D vector graphics software available for licensing with its Mali55 and Mali200 graphics processors.

REXIT EXPLAINS ITS JAPANESE SOFTWARE INSURANCE CONTRACT (Sin Chew Jit Poh) - Insurance software provider REXIT which recently signed anAgreement with SOMPO JAPAN INSURANCE INC for the implementation of REXIT's e-Cover services said that the Agreement which is for an initial one year from Jan 9, 2008 renewable annually was executed by REXIT INTERNATIONAL sb - a 51 per cent-owned joint venture with MARUBENI CORP of Japan.

Microsoft Buys Mobile Software Firm Danger (InternetNews.com) - Redmond expands its reach in handsets with purchase of Sidekick software maker.