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Cuba embraces open-source software (Boston Globe) - Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire -- Microsoft Corp. -- by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.

Photo Software Creates 3-D World (Science Daily) - Experimental software developed by UW and Microsoft computer scientists, called Photo Tourism, turns the surfeit of images into a benefit. Hundreds of photos of a single scene can be mapped into a 3-D virtual world. The technology has potential not just for organizing photo collections, but for capturing scenes and, perhaps someday, creating a visual map of all the photos on the Internet.

Mobile software group listing (Financial Times) - Redknee Solutions, a telecoms software group, plans to join the junior market after raising £17.5m by placing 16.7m shares at 105p. They had sought up to £20m.

Uwchlan Software Firm Makes Purchase (Daily Local News) - Infrastructure software firm Bentley Systems of Uwchlan said Monday it has acquired C.W. Beilfuss & Associate, a consulting and software firm headquartered in Downers Grove, Ill., for an undisclosed amount.

Joost internet TV software for Intel Macs (MacNN) - Joost offering a limited beta program for its software to users with Intel-based Macs. The interactive software is used to distribute TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer tv technology, which leverages the computer of users viewing video content to distribute the content to others. Created by founders of Skype and Kaza...

Palm Desert software firm offers new wave in data backup (The Press-Enterprise) - When data backup programs try to share shelf space with better-known, sexier software titles, economics usually favors the latter.

YouTube criticized for its anti-piracy software policy (Addict 3D) - YouTube criticized for its anti-piracy software policyThe media industry is claiming that YouTube.com has a flawed anti-piracy policy as it favors companies that have distribution deals with them.The Google owned video sharing service is planning to introduce technology to help media companies identify pirated videos uploaded by users.The experts claim that they are currently offering [...]

Software delaying housing appraisals (The Beaufort Gazette) - Property reassessment might be delayed a year because the county never received software it ordered five years ago.

Hollywood's latest trump card: content-recognition software (International Herald Tribune) - Media companies, long tormented by digital piracy, are growing excited about the possibilities of digital fingerprinting and filtering.

Maltese retail software at London exhibition (Times of Malta) - Allegro for Retail, the award-winning retail solution from Ascent Software, recently premiered at the Retail Business Show, held in London at Earls Court. The show is an annual event targeting corporate customers who are in the market for retail solutions.