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Many software licenses 'unfair to consumer' - report (The New Zealand Herald) - LONDON - Leading software companies are routinely forcing computer users to sign up to unfair contracts that are badly worded, full of legal uncertainties and biased towards providers, the National Consumer Council said yesterday.

Software failure causes havoc at Heathrow (UPI) - An automated baggage handling system was up and running at London's Heathrow Airport Wednesday, one day after a massive software failure shut it down.

The Software Vendor (Linux Today) - If you want the most informed partner then surely the people who provide the software are going to be the best and most knowledgeable, right?

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.

Software users 'duped by unfair licences' (Contractor UK) - Nearly all of the world’s computer users get ‘take it or leave it’ terms when they buy software, leaving them with fewer rights than if they had bought a cheap biro.

American Software Sets 9-Cent Dividend (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - American Software Inc. announced Tuesday that its board declared a quarterly dividend of 9 cents per share. The business software maker said the dividend is payable May 30 to shareholders of record as of May 16.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-02-21 02:40 GMT: China's ZTE in telecom software tieups with ATOS Origin, Indra (Interactive Investor) - BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - ZTE Corp said it has signed telecommunications software agreements with two European companies, consultancy ATOS Origin, and Indra Sistemas, Spain's largest IT integrator.

Giving away software makes good sense for Sun (Guardian Unlimited) - Jonathan Schwartz, its ponytail-wearing chief, has turned the company around by focusing on free software for new business, writes Tim Anderson

Nucleus Kernel BKF Repair Software (Jumbo.com) - User-friendly backup and repair software for corrupted .bkf files.

Software Tools: PCI and PXI interfaces deliver NI LabVIEW to PROFIBUS networks (Embedded Systems Programming Magazine) - Austin, Tex. — Targeting industrial manufacturing, process control and automation applications, National Instruments has introduced PCI and PXI PROFIBUS interfaces that enable NI LabVIEW software to be integrated into benchtop, real-time and device test PROFIBUS networks.