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Twenty milliseconds' latency is too much time? Well, yes, if you are building an automated trading system where the trading is done by software and the job of the trader has become to manage the software itself. That narrow window of execution is the parameter Swedish software developer Tocarema had to meet in creating its ground-up solution for an automated trading environment, as reported by Jeffrey Burt in eWeek.

BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhuanet) - Facebook has filed a copyright infringement suit against a German counterpart on Friday, but the latter said on Sunday it asked a German court to declare that Facebook's claims are without merit, according to media reports.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. July 17, 2008 - ContentGuard Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of digital rights

HONG KONG (AFP) - Terry McBride, the Canadian best known as the manager of pop megastar Avril Lavigne said the music industry's obsession with stemming the flow of illegally downloaded material is futile and short-sighted.

A first-time study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) shows that while the U.S. has the lowest rate of software piracy of countries tracked around the world, there is still a long way to go to end illegal software use here.

The next revolution in the software foundation for Microsoft's architecture is here. It's called WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation.

A patent lawyer has claimed that exclusive rights over a breast cancer gene test used by thousands of Australian women may be illegal and unenforceable.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Axis-Shield Plc, the diagnostics company, announced Monday that it has received notice of approval of its patent application covering its Afinion technology in China.

Rediff.com, India's online community portal, launched its developer program at Proto.in (http://developer.rediff.com), inviting all application developers to come on board and build applications for Rediff.com properties which is being made compatible to support Facebook Markup Language (FBML).

TrainingModules.Travel is offering a Sensational Samoan accommodation holiday to celebrate its successful launch since May 2008.

KUALA LUMPUR, 21 JULY 2008 - Software service provider globeOSS has selected business software solutions firm Touchpaper to provide centralised IT services for its entire Malaysia operations.

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Open source is assessed for more than half of businesses software acquisitions, according to Saugatuck Technology, a research and consulting firm. A CIO.com survey conducted in April showed that 53 percent of respondents were already using open-source applications in their enterprises and that 44 percent considered open-source applications equally during acquisition processes with proprietary applications. While this may surprise some, most businesses no longer carry the negative perceptions once associated with open-source solutions. The software is in use in some of the world's largest corporations and governments, in some of the most intensive application environments. In addition, open source is easy to acquire within many organizations compared to commercial solutions.

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A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.

I use iTunes on both my Mac and Windows machines here at work. On my Windows box, it's not quite as smooth and takes up a few too many resources, but I still run it to listen to music from other users on my network. On my Mac, it couldn't be better, but I've found that the biggest problem I have with iTunes is not with the program itself.

Prepaid iTunes gift cards are no longer available for purchase from stores including Coles, Myer, JB Hi-Fi and Target due to payment provider Bill Express going into administration.

Two shops in Kuwait have been raided and a large quantity of pirated computer programs seized in the latest crackdown on the sale of counterfeit software in the Gulf state, it was announced on Sunday.