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Software Piracy Said Down in China, Russia (AP via Yahoo! News) - Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion.

Industry group says software piracy down in China and Russia (USA Today) - Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion. A new report says 35% of the packaged software installed on personal computers worldwide in 2005 was illegal.

Call to target UK software piracy (BBC News) - More than a quarter of all the PC software used in the UK is pirated, reveals a report.

SSA buy spawns new software giant (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - Roll over, Oracle. Infor’s acquisition of SSA Global for $1.4 billion last week creates a new enterprise software giant that claims to be ready to do battle with the big players.

DemandTec Delivers Consumer-Centric Merchandising and Marketing Software to Advance Auto Parts (The Auto Channel) - CHICAGO, May 22 -- Retail Systems 2006 Conference and Expo, Booth 1702 -- DemandTec, Inc., the leading provider of Consumer-Centric Merchandising, Sales, and Marketing software for retailers and consumer products firms, announced today that Advance Auto Parts, Inc., a fast-growing Fortune 500 company, will implement the DemandTec Price(TM) and DemandTec Promotion(TM) applications for

Software Makers Crack Down on Net Piracy (Norwalk Advocate) - Computer software makers launched a crackdown on illegal Internet sales of their products Tuesday by suing suspected pirates who have set up shop on the popular online auction site eBay Inc.

IRS: Taxpayer Not Responsible for Software Snafu (WebCPA) - Washington (May 23, 2006) - In a pair of private letter rulings, the Internal Revenue Service said that it would allow a taxpayer to make a late election, agreeing that the taxpayer had relied on tax prep software that didn't adequately handle a tax provision.

More Than 75 Million North American Life Insurance and Annuity Policies Now Administered on CSC Software (SYS-CON Media) - Computer Sciences Corporation today announced that its policy administration systems now support more than 75 million life insurance and annuity policies in North America. CSC reached this milestone with Sammons Financial Group's recent conversion of an acquired block of policies onto CSC's CyberLife software.

Software Earnings creates check processing product for First Tennessee (Memphis Business Journal) - First Tennessee Bank will implement a new check processing solution by Software Earnings that could dramatically cut costs for the financial holding company.

Panda Software Labs Detects 1Table.A, a Trojan That Uses a Microsoft Word Vulnerability to Infect Computers (SYS-CON Media) - Panda Software Labs has detected the appearance of 1Table.A, a malicious code that exploits a recently detected critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word, and which also affects versions of MS Office 2003 and XP. This security problem allows the execution of code on affected systems and, more dangerously, allows the construction of malicious code which is indistinguishable at first glance from a