AP - Software giant Microsoft Corp. said Monday its board approved a plan to buy back up to another $40 billion of its shares.

Reuters - McAfee Inc , the world's No. 2 security software maker, said on Monday it plans to buy Internet security company Secure Computing Corp for $465 million in cash.

AFP - US computer software giant Microsoft announced Monday that it would buy back another 40 billion dollars of its shares.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to buy back up to $40 billion of its own stock, lift its dividend and issue commercial paper for the first time in the company's history, the software maker said on Monday.

AFP - A mobile telephone tailored to run on Google's Android software is to debut next week in New York City.

PC Magazine - On Thursday, Advanced Micro Devices tied a new corporate branding campaign,"Fusion," to a beta utility that is designed to speed up AMD-powered PCs. The company warned, however, that the utility could turn off antivirus or other security software without notifying the user.

AFP - Software piracy in Montenegro is amongst the highest in the world with 83 percent of computer programmes illegally copied in 2007, a study released on Thursday showed.

AP - TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

Reuters - Oracle Corp , the world's No. 3 software maker, posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit as operating margins hit their highest level ever for the period, sending its shares up 6 percent.

AP - Investors looking for a sign that big companies are still spending on software found a measure of relief after Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter earnings that beat expectations.