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CheckFree Buys Boston Software Provider (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - CheckFree Corp., a maker of online payment software, said Monday it will pay $28 million to acquire most of the assets of a Boston-based company that provides stock-transaction services for investment firms.

Microsoft signs software deal with Vietnam government (AFP via Yahoo! News) - US software giant Microsoft on Monday signed an agreement with communist Vietnam to use its licensed programmes in government desktop computers in a bid to reduce rampant software piracy.

Lawson to sell software as service (Pioneer Press) - St. Paul-based Lawson Software said Monday it would begin selling one of its core business-software products as a service, joining other software vendors that are letting customers rent their products instead of owning them.

The Inside Story On Oracle's Deal To Acquire Agile Software (Optimize) - Oracle's Charles Phillips and Agile Software CEO Jay Fulcher have known each other for 20 years. Here's what they plan to do moving forward.

Police software declared DOA (The Advertiser-Tribune) - Tiffin City Council took the first steps toward replacing free but faulty police department software and reaffirmed its opposition of cable deregulation Monday.

Microsoft signs software deal with Vietnam ministry (AFP via Yahoo! News) - US software giant Microsoft on Monday signed an agreement with a Vietnam government ministry to use only licensed programmes in a bid to reduce rampant software piracy in the communist country.

Unfortunately, Even The Most Fun Business Software Doesn't Sound Very Fun (Addict 3D) - The usability of most business software is notoriously poor, and because of this, it often goes unused within companies that have invested in it. The New York Times has an interesting article about attempts made by some software makers to introduce design elements from videogames in the hopes of making software more engaging , and thus more likely to actually get used.

Video surveillance software firm sees more investment (BizJournals) - VidSys Inc., which sells software for video surveillance command centers, has raised a $10 million second round of venture capital and added a big-name technology investor in Motorola Ventures.

Panasas Drives Industry Adoption of Parallel Storage to Solve Storage I/O Bottlenecks; Open Sources Client Software (SYS-CON Media) - Panasas, Inc., the leader in parallel clustered storage solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC) market, today announced the source code release of key components of its industry leading parallel file system client software, DirectFLOW(R), to accelerate the adoption of Parallel Network File System (pNFS), which is to be released as part of the NFS version 4.1 standard. This open source ...

HCR Software Solutions Hosts CompConnect Webcasts for Lawson Clients (SYS-CON Media) - WHO: HCR Software Solutions, compensation and performance management software provider WHAT: Free Webcasts to learn about HCR's CompConnect Program for Lawson Clients WHEN: The CompConnect Webcasts will be held at different times on two days.