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

Software Browses Web Sans Connection (TechWeb) - A Seattle startup Monday launched software that lets users search and view Web sites stored on smart phones or laptops without connecting to the Internet.

Apple unveils new management software (CNN Money) - Apple Computer introduced new desktop management software Tuesday optimized for users of its new Intel-based Macs.

Apple introduces latest remote desktop software (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday unveiled the third generation of its desktop management software, Apple Remote Desktop 3.

Video: Software aims to secure Apple laptops (CNET) - Video: Software aims to secure Apple laptops. Watch a demonstration of iAlertU, software that sets off an alarm when an Apple MacBook Pro is jarred. It's activated by remote control.

China Agrees to Piracy Crackdown, Software Rules (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) - April 11 (Bloomberg) -- China made several concessions to U.S. trade demands today, agreeing to lift its ban on U.S. beef imports, open up its telecommunications and medical-devices market to competition and crack down on software piracy.

Best Buy hit with restraining order over Austin company's software (Houston Chronicle) - A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order today, preventing Minneapolis-based electronics retailer Best Buy Co. from using diagnostic software designed by an Austin company.

China Agrees to Piracy Crackdown, Software Rules at Summit (Bloomberg.com) - April 11 (Bloomberg) -- China today agreed to extend a crackdown on makers of pirated movies and implement a rule requiring computer makers to install legal software on new machines, a U.S. industry representative said.

Software makers seek Chinese piracy crackdown (Market Watch) - WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. software developers are cautiously optimistic that Tuesday's meeting of top U.S. and Chinese trade officials will result in Beijing's agreement to crack down on piracy.