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NetSuite gets German audit body OK for software (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - NetSuite Inc said on Sunday it has received certification from a member of a German auditing body for its on-demand business management software, which can now be used by companies in Germany.

Software Not Smart Enough to Sort Human Relationships (PC World via Yahoo! News) - Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive chairman of World-Check, a company that maintains a database of individuals that banks and other companies might want to think twice about doing business with.

PC makers to miss deadline for China's internet filter software (Financial Times) - Beijing's order that all new PCs should include internet filtering software is about to be put to the test, with personal computer makers set to miss a deadline tomorrow for supplying all new machines with the program.

Why Google's software approach won't work for smartphones or the enterprise (ZDNet) - Google is making a big run at new markets with business software and mobile phones. However, it will not succeed in either market unless it changes the way it builds its products. Both of these markets will reject Google's "continuous beta" philosophy. by Jason Hiner

PlayStation 3 expected to get huge software update this year (Geek.com) - This year will likely see the release of a major firmware overhaul for Sony’s PlayStation 3 featuring player reputations, hardware fixes and similarities with Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience, according to industry ruminations. System software 3.0 is “a completely new system,” in the words of an unnamed source cited by game blog VG247. ”A reputation system in [...]

Sacramento software firm to buy majority shareholder (The Sacramento Bee) - Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, the Sacramento maker of software for eye doctors, said today it is buying its majority shareholder and has lined up $6 million in private equity financing.

Sakhr Software Acquires Dial Directions (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) - WASHINGTON & SAN FRANCISCO----Sakhr Software, a global leader in advanced Arabic speech and language solutions, today announced that it has acquired Dial Directions, a leading provider of voice-entry technology for mobile devices and services.

Sony now including "Green Dam" filtering software on PCs sold in China (Engadget) - Well, there was some evidence earlier this month that some piracy issues in China's mandated "Green Dam" content-filtering software could cause PC exports to the country to be stalled, but it looks like Sony has now gone ahead and included the software on its PCs regardless, albeit with a few major caveats. According to the document above (included with a VAIO PC sold in the country, and ...

Red Bend Software Enables Device Management of Fujitsu's WiMAX Chipsets (redOrbit) - TOKYO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Bend Software (Japan headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuhiro Abe), the market leader in Mobile Software Management (MSM), today announced that Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Haruki Okada) has licensed Red Bend's standards-based device management (DM) software for Fujitsu Microelectronics' WiMAX SoC ...

Security software seller CyberDefender names a VP of e-commerce (InternetRetailer.com) - CyberDefender Corp., a developer and online seller of software to fight spyware and viruses, has named Raffi Simonian vice president of e-commerce.