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Spitzer Sues Software Company Over Spyware (New York Times) - New York's attorney general says that Direct Revenue installed software on computers without permission.

Software Out There (New York Times) - Developers are joining blocks of interchangeable software components together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs.

Microsoft Wins Big Order for Cellphone Software (New York Times) - Microsoft has won its biggest contract ever for mobile phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau for 500,000 handsets.

Software firm lands $8M in VC funds (BizJournals) - A Tempe company that designs software to help firms stay in compliance with environmental regulations landed $8 million in venture capital to expand its business in Arizona and overseas.

Boulder software company sets pace for Colorado tech industry (BizJournals) - Webroot Software Inc.'s $108 million investment from a group of California venture firms broke several precedents.

Hardware, software help agents land big deals (BizJournals) - Buying and selling a home has gone high-tech, with real estate agents armed with laptops and gadgets, ever pushing for new toys. At the same time, new software is adding bells and whistles to real estate Internet sites, including digital mapping and map-search capabilities, and new ways of advertising and showing homes online.

Business Objects unveils new Web-delivered software (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Business Objects SA will introduce a Web-based version of its database marketing software on Monday, the latest company to push into the fast-growing market for applications delivered over the Internet.

Kyma Sound Design Software Gets Universal Binary (The Mac Observer) - Symbolic Corp. has released Kyma X.32, a Universal Binary of its sound design software that runs on Macs with Intel or PowerPC processors. The company said that Kyma now runs as much as 3.3 times faster on a MacBook Pro than on a 1GHz G4 PowerBook. This is a free update for registered users

Software Notebook: Microsoft rival turns sights toward Office (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) - Michael Robertson, whose "Lindows" operating system landed him in a big trademark dispute with Microsoft, is now rolling out a series of Web-based programs to compete with its highly profitable Office software.

Software to sports to security (River Valley Business Report) - After selling both Winnebago Software Co. and Miken Sports in Caledonia, Minn., in the past six years, Jeb Griffith’s entrepreneurial spirit continues.