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Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight (Slashdot) - mgh02114 writes "The new US stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, was deployed for the first time to Asia earlier this month. On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s' on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. The delay in arrival in Japan was previously reported, with rumors of problems with ...

A hard lesson about software (Los Angeles Times) - Author Scott Rosenberg gets mired in a failed open-source project, whose programmers were undone by their own outsized ambition. The complex software on which the modern world depends is hard to write. It is also hard to write about.

Software Tool of Pirates Gets Work in Hollywood (New York Times) - Hollywood studios are going into business with one of their biggest tormentors: the peer-to-peer pioneer BitTorrent.

High Court battle asks if software is tangible (Chicago Tribune) - Is software a tangible part of a computer, or just an intangible string of digital data?

Investing Systems: Software Offers Technical Trading Signals, Intra-day Stock Watch & Whole Market Scanner (SYS-CON Media) - Investing Systems announced today therelease of the latest version of the Stock Signal Pro software forshort-term swing traders.

News: Google Offers Business Software via Yearly Subscription (Overclockers Club) - DailyTech - To better compete against the Microsoft Office line of software, Google has launched the Google Apps Premier Edition, available to consumers for a $50 per user account per year charge.

Take close look at the latest tax software (Reno Gazette-Journal) - Sales of tax-preparation software are expected to rise briskly again this year, thanks in large measure to our tax system's stunning complexity.

Major rivals' tax-preparation software get test drive (Honolulu Advertiser) - There are two reasons why most of us use tax preparation software to do our taxes: It's faster than filling out the paper forms, and it's cheaper than paying someone else to do the job.

Changes abound in tax software (Florida Today) - Tax software cheaper and easier to choose.

Design on Diagonal Path in Pursuit of a Faster Chip (New York Times) - A maker of software tools has made it possible to route lines diagonally for semiconductor chips, which will add to the speed, efficiency and performance of a generation of smaller chips.