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Egypt Delivers a Blow to Software Piracy

CAIRO, Egypt, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Egypt has taken a step forward in combating software piracy according to the fifth annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study where its piracy rating dropped to 60% for 2007, an improvement of 3% year on year. Its rating is now 1% below the global median piracy rating (61%) for 2007.

Egypt Delivers a Blow to Software Piracy

CAIRO, Egypt, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Egypt has taken a step forward in combating software piracy according to the fifth annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study where its piracy rating dropped to 60% for 2007, an improvement of 3% year on year. Its rating is now 1% below the global median piracy rating (61%) for 2007.

Egypt Delivers a Blow to Software Piracy

CAIRO, Egypt, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Egypt has taken a step forward in combating software piracy according to the fifth annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study where its piracy rating dropped to 60% for 2007, an improvement of 3% year on year. Its rating is now 1% below the global median piracy rating (61%) for 2007.

Egypt Delivers a Blow to Software Piracy

CAIRO, Egypt, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Egypt has taken a step forward in combating software piracy according to the fifth annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study where its piracy rating dropped to 60% for 2007, an improvement of 3% year on year. Its rating is now 1% below the global median piracy rating (61%) for 2007.

Egypt Delivers a Blow to Software Piracy

Egypt drops 3% off its software piracy rating as it aims to become a leading outsourcing location CAIRO, Egypt, June 13

Fortify Software Inc.: Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk; New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code

Fortify Software Inc.: Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk; New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code

Reducing Software Piracy Could Have Exponential Effect on Channel Profitability, Says New White Paper

HOUSTON, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new white paper by IDC released today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 highlights the collateral damage that software piracy is causing to companies across the technology industry. Sponsored by Microsoft Corp. and the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP), the white paper shows that every dollar Microsoft loses to software piracy translates to $5.50 in lost opportunity for other companies in the partner ecosystem. The white paper points to a stark reality not often highlighted in industry discussions: Software piracy is a wide-ranging problem that deeply affects small companies as well as large software vendors.

SourceLabs Upgrades Open Source Support Tools

Seattle-based SourceLabs, which develops software for helping Linux and open source developers manage their open source software, said this week that it has upgraded its software. According to the firm, it has upgraded its Self-Support Tools software with new features, including automatically tagging hardware compatibility issues. SourceLabs' software is used by companies to gain support for open source software. The firm's software provides access to information about known issues, bugs, and software updates for open source Java and Linux software. Sourcelabs is venture backed by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, and Madrona Venture Group.

Kuwaiti economy set to gain US$350 million in additional revenues by reducing software piracy rate

piracyThe Kuwaiti economy is looking at potentially adding USD 350 million to its national economy by reducing its software piracy rate, as recent IDC studies revealed that a minimum 10 percentage point drop in the country’s current piracy activity can rake in significant earnings from its booming IT market. The research showed that curbing illegal software acquisition could result in an additional USD 219 million in local revenues and USD 1 million in taxes. In line with this, the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association that promotes a safe and legal digital world. As a founding member of BSA, Autodesk, the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building, and media and entertainment markets, h

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater...

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code SAN MATEO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Software, Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for business software assurance, released today its Open Source Security Study which reveals that the most widely-used open source software packages for the enterprise are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risk. The study validates that Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed.

Arxan Takes on Hackers and Pirates in European Software Markets

Arxan Technologies Expands Global Footprint to Europe to Address Software Piracy and Tampering LONDON (CNW) - Arxan Technologies, a leading provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software from tampering and theft, announces its global expansion into Europe with the appointment of Lance Boyd as Vice President of International Sales. Boyd will be supported by a team based in London dedicated to providing application hardening solutions tailored to the European software industry. Arxan has expanded its global footprint to the European market at a time when levels of global software piracy and tampering have reached unprecedented levels, compliance regulation is demanding close scrutiny of software applications and malware attacks are exponentially increasing.

Reducing software piracy rate to add $350m to national economy of Kuwa

(MENAFN Press) The Kuwaiti economy is looking at potentially adding USD 350 million to its national economy by reducing its software piracy rate, as recent IDC studies revealed that a minimum 10 percentage point drop in the country's current piracy activity can rake in significant earnings from its booming IT market. The research showed that curbing illegal software acquisition could result in an additional USD 219 million in local revenues and USD 1 million in taxes. In line with this, the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association that promotes a safe and legal digital world.

Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report?

Ian Lamont writes "The Business Software Alliance has just released its state piracy study (full PDF also available). The BSA says that one in five pieces of software in use in the United States is unlicensed, and notes that piracy rates are highest in Ohio (27%). However, as noted by the Industry Standard, there are problems with the state study, and the way the BSA is presenting the data: the study only includes eight states, and it is making some questionable connections, including the claim that lost state and local tax revenue from piracy would have been enough to 'hire nearly 25,000 experienced police officers.'"

Kuwaiti economy set to gain USD 350 million in additional revenues by reducing software piracy rate

Jun 22, 2008 (Al-Bawaba via COMTEX) -- ADSK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The Kuwaiti economy is looking at potentially adding USD 350 million to its national economy by reducing its software piracy rate, as recent IDC studies revealed that a minimum 10 percentage point drop in the country's current piracy activity can rake in significant earnings from its booming IT market. The research showed that curbing illegal software acquisition could result in an additional USD 219 million in local revenues and USD 1 million in taxes. In line with this, the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association that promotes a safe and legal digital world.

Microsoft: $1 of piracy = $5.50 in "lost opportunities"

Each dollar lost to software piracy equals $5.50 in lost opportunities, claims Microsoft. A new white paper released by IDC and funded by the software giant looks at how copyright infringement affects the software ecosystem as a whole, not just how it affects a single corporation. IDC claims that, if Microsoft were to make back each of those lost dollars, partner companies would gain $4.37 in increased revenues and $1.13 in lower operational costs. That's assuming, however, that the Business Software Alliance's estimated losses due to piracy are correct—an assumption that IDC makes in this report, despite having admitted in the past that the numbers are misleading.

Benchmarking Hardware RAID vs. Linux Kernel Software RAID

"The main surprise in the first set of tests, on RAID-5 performance, is that block input is substantially better for software RAID; ext3 got 385MB/sec in software against 330MB/sec in hardware. The hardware dominates in block output, getting 322MB/sec aginst the 174MB/sec achieved by software for aligned XFS, making for a 185% speed increase for hardware over software. These differences in block output are not as large when using the ext3 filesystem. Block rewrite is almost identical for ext3 in software and hardware, whereas the rewrite difference becomes 128MB/sec to 109MB/sec for hardware to software respectively when using XFS."

Digital River Launches E-Commerce Operations for Absolute Software Corporation

Supports online marketing and subscription sales of Absolute's Computrace LoJack for Laptops software MINNEAPOLIS--(Business Wire)-- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it signed a new e-commerce agreement with Absolute(R) Software Corporation (TSX: ABT), the maker of Computrace(R) LoJack(R) for Laptops software. Absolute Software is using Digital River's comprehensive e-commerce platform and services to expand its direct-to-consumer business in the United States. Recently Digital River designed and launched an online store, located at www.lojackforlaptops.com, which features subscriptions to Absolute's consumer theft recovery and identity protection software and services. "The online market remains a primary growth channel for software providers worldwide," said Don Peters

Update: Software group weighs piracy lawsuit against eBay

A trade group representing hundreds of software vendors is considering a lawsuit against eBay for what it calls widespread sales of counterfeit software on the auction site. The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on its site, but the auction giant has rejected most of those ideas, said Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of the SIIA's antipiracy division.

Tackling Software Piracy

In the past few months a certain home ad has appeared in CHIP that encourages one to “Always buy original�. The statement “software piracy is rampant in India� is cliché. I’d go a step further to say, that, apart from the operating system (which has self-validating mechanisms), most applications on an average PC are either pirated, open source, freeware, or trialware on extended use. At this point I have to ask, “When was the last time you paid for software?� And I won’t be surprised if someone shoots back, “Why should I pay for software when it’s so easily available?�

Black Duck Software Adds C/C++ Open Source Software to Koders.com Code Search Engine

Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will enhance Koders

Black Duck Software Bolsters Koders.com Code Search Engine with C/C++ Open Source Software

Black Duck Software, a provider of products and services for software development through the managed use of open source software, announced an expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine.

Amazon Launches New Software en Espanol Store as the Software Shopping Destination for Hispanic Consumers

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) today unveiled the Software en Espanol Store (www.amazon.com/spanishsoftware), a new category store featuring essential Spanish-language and bilingual software products. With content primarily in English accompanied by some Spanish information, the store features an extensive selection of business and office software as well as educational offerings and software for children.

SIIA and V.i. Labs to Host Webcast on Software Piracy Strategies: Targeting Unlicensed...

SIIA and V.i. Labs to Host Webcast on Software Piracy Strategies: Targeting Unlicensed Customers and Lost Revenue Must-know strategies for recovering revenue from corporate pirates will be discussed - July 29, 2 pm ET (webcast registration link noted below) WASHINGTON, July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While corporations around the globe are using pirated and other illegal software to build their businesses and products, your corporation can learn what it takes to fight this battle and win. If you think that software pirates live in dorm rooms or their parents' basements, you'll be surprised to learn that the average infringing organization has annual sales of $17 million. How do legitimate firms handle such odds? This premier webcast, scheduled for July 29 at 2pm ET and hosted by V.

RedTail Solutions Announces Integration of AccountMate 7.4 Software for its EDI Software-as-a-Service...

RedTail Solutions Announces Integration of AccountMate 7.4 Software for its EDI Software-as-a-Service Solution Enhanced Interface Improves End-to-End Automation for EDI Transactions for Suppliers and Manufacturers WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(Business Wire)-- RedTail Solutions, Inc. , a provider of on-demand electronic trading solutions for electronic data interchange (EDI) and global data synchronization (GDS), today announced the availability of an enhanced interface that works with the latest release of AccountMate (7.4) for SQL, a popular mid-market accounting software system from AccountMate Software Corporation. RedTail's managed services solution handles all communications between trading partners and manufacturers and distributors, seamlessly integrating with AccountMate (7.

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