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Finally, Software Designed For Users (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Companies have long used software systems to monitor the performance of hardware such as servers and desktop computers. Now a new class of software shows how well corporate software programs are performing for users.

Microsoft, Clinton Develop Emissions Tracking Software (PC World via Yahoo! News) - Microsoft Corp. will work with the Clinton Foundation to develop free Web-based software and services that cities around the world can use to monitor their carbon emissions and share ideas about environmental protection.

IBM sees software producing half of profit by 2010 (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - International Business Machines Corp. sees software accounting for nearly half of total profit by 2010, up from about 40 percent last year, the company said in slides prepared for an investor conference on Thursday.

Entertainment Software Association Names President (PC World) - Former Bush Administration member Mike Gallagher has taken over the reins of the Entertainment Software Association.

Microsoft, Clinton Develop Emissions Tracking Software (PC World) - Microsoft will work with the Clinton Foundation to develop free Web-based software and services that cities around the world can use to monitor their carbon emissions.

Software Piracy Rate At 35 Percent? (WebProNews) - A study by the Business Software Alliance is estimating global software piracy at 35% of all software installed last year, coming out to $40 billion in lost revenue for software makers, with 15% more losses since 2005, $5 billion not going to the people who created the software. The report also said that piracy in China dropped 10% over the last three years, saving $864 million in losses, ...

VA Software to Present at JMP Securities Research Conference (SYS-CON Media) - VA Software Corporation (NASDAQ: LNUX), theonline media and e-commence leader in community-driven Open Sourceinnovation, today announced that it will present a corporate overviewbefore investors at the Sixth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference onMay 23, 2007 in San Francisco, California.

ITM Software to Attend Series of CIO Executive Summits (SYS-CON Media) - ITM Software, provider of the only integratedbusiness management solution designed specifically for the CIO and ITorganization, today announced that the company has been selected toparticipate in a series of CIO Executive Summits, a chain of one dayprivate conferences designed by CIOs for CIOs.

PhoneTree Announces Sage Software Healthcare, Inc. to Deliver PhoneTree Automated Patient Messaging Solution (SYS-CON Media) - PhoneTree(R) announced today that it has been chosen by Sage Software Healthcare, Inc. as its exclusive provider of automated patient messaging in conjunction with Sage Software healthcare-focused products.

HP has strong PC, software sales, but Q2 profit dips (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - Helped by double-digit sales growth in PCs and software from its Mercury Interactive acquisition, Hewlett-Packard reported a 27 percent increase in operating profit on a 13 percent rise in revenue in fiscal second quarter financial results released Wednesday. But net profit slipped by 7 percent from the same quarter last year.