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Israeli Software Firm Drops U.S. Deal (AP via Yahoo! News) - A leading Israeli software company abandoned its plans Thursday to buy a smaller U.S. rival in a $225 million deal because of national security objections by the Bush administration.

Israeli software firm drops U.S. deal (USA Today) - A leading Israeli software company was forced to abandon plans Thursday to buy a smaller U.S. rival in a $225 million deal because of national security objections by the Bush administration.

Developers Of Free Software Commanding Pricey Valuations (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - That's the question facing investors in open-source software firms. Few doubt that such companies are reshaping the software landscape. Their products -- based on publicly available code and developed by global open-source communities -- are giving pricey commercial software a run for its money.

Israeli Software Company Abandons Takeover Plans Over U.S. S (Fox News) - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. formally withdraws plan to buy rival that designed software that guards some classified U.S. military and intelligence computers.

Group opposing malicious software targets file-sharing, screensaver programs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - SAN FRANCISCO -- A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices has named a widely used file-sharing program and three other applications as violators of its guidelines.

Venture Capital: Tableau Software is thinking very big (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Fresh from its wins at the WSA Industry Achievement Awards, Seattle-based Tableau Software is keeping the engine running with an old-fashioned business model.

Sling Software Tunes Mobile Devices Into TVs (TechWeb) - Software from Sling Media can turn mobile phones and portable computers into televisions. In fact, they say it's giving users access to local TV from anywhere in the world.

Israeli Software Firm Drops U.S. Deal (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading Israeli software company abandoned its plans Thursday to buy a smaller U.S. rival in a $225 million deal because of national security objections by the Bush administration. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. in Ramat Gan, Israel, formally withdrew its proposal near the conclusion of a rare, full-blown investigation by a U.S. review panel over the company's plans to

Altiris Gives Away Software Virtualization (eWeek) - Altiris releases its Software Virtualization Solution and makes a personal use version free.

Southwest Research Institute creates new angry-crowd simulation software (San Antonio Business Journal) - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) developed a prototype software package that military, law enforcement and event management personnel could use to analyze, model and research the behaviors of literally hundreds of people in a volatile crowd situation.