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Software helps retailers make sure the price is right (USA Today) - Price-optimization software is often credited with boosting retail profits by a few percentage points a huge leap in an industry that lives on margins slimmer than a 25-cent pack of gum. Even so, the software is just beginning to make its mark.

Brief: Eben Moglen Steps Down From Free Software Foundation (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - Moglen will return to teaching at Columbia University and spend much of his free time on the Software Freedom Law Center.

SOA Software and JBoss Partner (Linux World) - 'Now, enterprises deploying SOA applications on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware can take advantage of SOA Software's Service Manager and WorkBench products for critical governance, security, management, and mediation functions. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible set of leading open source software for creating and deploying modern applications such as Web applications, rich ...

Cisco's Acquisition Of WebEx Will Make It Software 'Seller' (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Its purchase of WebEx will give networking gear king Cisco Systems its biggest foothold yet in the fast-emerging world of Web 2.0 services and collaboration, but it looks like it will do even more: make it a middleman in the selling of software.

Kentucky software developer sues Google (WHAS 11 Louisville) - LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky software developer has sued internet titan Google Inc., saying the search engine company violated its patent on a Web-search tool.

ACS Acquires Welfare Enrollment Software (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - ACS gains control of Albion's Vantage product line -- software that helps state officials determine citizen eligibility for health care and welfare programs.

As the Software World Turns, Part 1: Engineers In, Programmers Out (LinuxInsider.com) - In today's world of application development, software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers and architects are facing an ever-widening range of job roles and expectations. Organizations around the world are asking more of these professionals, in ways rarely seen only a decade ago. Software developers have found themselves stuck between the need for multilingual knowledge and specialization ...

Video Management System Software (Convenience Store News) - Wren, a video surveillance provider, announced new Video Management System software.

Pricing Software Could Reshape Retail, Sales (KDKA Pittsburgh) - Price-optimization software is often credited with boosting retail profits by a few percentage points — a huge leap in an industry that lives on margins slimmer than a 25-cent pack of gum.

Software helps retailers make sure the price is right (KATU Portland) - A large retail chain had a problem. While drill know-it-alls flocked to the $130 model and price-fretters grabbed its $90 cousin, shoppers often ignored the middle one. So the store sought advice from a new breed of "price-optimization" software from DemandTec Inc.