Microsoft raids disk pirates: Singapore's crackdown efforts may be working

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The Singaporean government assisted Microsoft Corp. in raiding the shops of software pirates, signaling the country's renewed commitment to intellectual property rights protection. Microsoft Singapore conducted raids on shops located in Singapore's shopping districts, such as those in Orchard Road and Scotts Road, and was able to seize some 1,000 pirated CD-ROM computer disks that are suspected to contain pirated software. Singapore is moderately successful in stemming software piracy, with US-based Business Software Alliance estimating the number of pirated software in Singapore dropping from 59% in 1996 to 56% in 1997.

Microsoft Corp., Singapore, Political aspects, Market share, MSFT, Intellectual property (International law)

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New software packages give voice to Cantonese, Mandarin writers

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The difficulty of rendering on screen the 20,000-odd characters of the Chinese language has been resolved by the latest software offering from Apple Computer Inc. The Advanced Chinese Input Suite, a point-and-click alternative to typing in Chinese, consists of a compact disc, read-only memory containing software for Cantonese dictation, Mandarin dictation, handwriting recognition and the software used by the computer to read back what was dictated to it in Mandarin. The computer is taught voice recognition by reading to it in Mandarin and Cantonese.

AAPL, Apple Inc., Machine translation, Chinese language

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Programs log the minutes you spend surfing the Net

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Singaporean computer software programmer Lucio Teo has come out with the STimer and PTimer utilities to help Internet users keep track of the time and calculate cumulative expenses as well as warn users if their expenses are almost on the level of their monthly budgets. These programs are freeware but users who want more accurate versions can avail of them by sending the programmer a check equivalent to US$8.52.

Systems Software Pkgs (Micro), Internet, Operating systems (Software), Utility programs, Utilities (Software)

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