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Software Piracy On The Rise, Study Finds (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - InformationWeek - Rates of pirated software ranged from a high of 93% in Armenia to a low of 20% in the United States, according to the 2007 BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy study.

IBM Boosts BlackBerry Access to Cognos, Lotus Software (PC World via Yahoo! News) - IBM has released software that allows BlackBerry users to access more of its applications, including its Cognos business...

Software piracy increases in Asia-Pacific: industry group (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Software piracy increased last year in the Asia-Pacific region, boosted by China's growing use of personal computers, an industry group said on Wednesday.

Oracle To Buy Insurance Software Maker (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - InformationWeek - Oracle plans to make AdminServer's software a core component of its existing insurance-related products, such as Oracle Billing, Siebel Claims, and Siebel Customer Relationship Management for Insurance.

GhostReader assistive software adds new voices (Macworld.com via Yahoo! News) - ConvenienceWare/AssistiveWare on Wednesday announced the release of GhostReader 1.5, a significant update to their text-to-speech software for Mac OS X. It costs US$39.95, and the update is free for registered users.

Comcast And Plaxo Invite You To The Marriage Of Set-top Box & Social Software (CBS News) - Just got off the phone from a tandem interview with Plaxo CEO Ben Golub and Comcast Interactive Media's Sam Schwartz. They weren't willing to talk money but answered just about everything else and talked at length about the vision of marrying set-tops and social software. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) plans to integrate Plaxo's technology across its platformsincluding, eventually, to WiMax. In the ...

Study: Pirates cost software industry $48 billion (CNET) - Annual report from software industry group says piracy rates declined in most countries surveyed during 2007, but estimated lost sales worldwide grew overall.

Comcast And Plaxo Invite You To The Marriage Of Set-top Box & Social Software (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance) - Just got off the phone from a tandem interview with Plaxo CEO Ben Golub and Comcast Interactive Media's Sam Schwartz. They weren't willing to talk money but answered just about everything else and talked at length about the vision of marrying set-tops and social software.

Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - Intelligent Enterprise - The deal, for 200,000 users, marks a tipping point in the interest and use of on-demand software among large companies.

BSA Study Shows Software Piracy Declining in Many Countries (PC World) - The results from the Business Software Alliance's fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that...