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Brown to Develop Handwriting Software (AP via Yahoo! News) - Microsoft Corp. is working with Brown University to develop software that will recognize complex handwriting and gestures — beyond the basic handwriting such as signatures that credit card users write on an electronic pad.

Apache chairman: Days numbered for commercial software (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice, said Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, at the EclipseCon 2006 conference on Wednesday.

ATM theft investigators eye software flaw (MSNBC) - U.S. retailers are being warned that software they use at checkout counters may store too much customer information — including customer debit card PIN numbers.  In some cases, researchers believe the account information is being broadcast right outside retail stores over insecure wireless networks.

Brown to Develop Handwriting Software (ABC News) - Microsoft Works With Brown University to Develop Software That Will Recognize Complex Handwriting

ATM theft investigators eye software flaw (MSNBC) - U.S. retailers are being warned that software they use at checkout counters may store too much customer information - including customer debit card PIN numbers that are supposed to be immediately erased or encrypted.

CDC Software raises its offer for Onyx (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - CDC Software has increased its offer to buy Onyx Software, raising its bid from $50 million to more than $80 million.

Watchdog Group Releases Software Report (AP via Yahoo! News) - A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices on Wednesday named a widely used file-sharing program and three other applications as violators of its guidelines.

FDA Clears Immunicon Diagnostic Software (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Immunicon Corp., a maker of cancer diagnostics, said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration has cleared its new software for predicting survival rates in patients with breast cancer.

IBM Offers New SOA Software, Services (TechWeb) - IBM unveils software and services for organizations adopting a service oriented architecture, a form of standards-based distributed computing.

Oracle launches business-intelligence software (San Francisco Chronicle) - Software maker Oracle Corp. on Wednesday launched a new line of business-intelligence applications that will compete with products from Microsoft Corp. and vendors such as Cognos Inc. and Business Objects SA. At a customer event in New York, Oracle...