101.   Borenstein, chasing a job tip, got an interview last summer at Cambridge Internet, a software company.

102.   Both are part of a cavalcade of managers who left Lotus Development Corp. shortly after International Business Machines Corp. acquired the Cambridge, Mass. software company.

103.   Both software companies are expected to make important e-book announcements this week, he said.

104.   Both software companies have large customer bases and both have seen their stock prices fall to attractive levels.

105.   Both software companies are planning to include e-mail encryption and other security functions in the next generation of their free Web browsers.

106.   A consortium of Brazilian software companies set up shop at Comdex, trying to penetrate the lucrative U.S. market.

107.   A Bellevue company, Aditi, acts much like a broker handling technical support for Seattle-area software companies at its facilities in India.

108.   A Corel executive says the company is rapidly expanding this effort and that other software companies are considering joining the project.

109.   A good gauge of game popularity, beyond the buzz among players, is the number of software companies designing for each format.

110.   A Bellevue, Wash., software company last fall filed suit against THG over a tent deal at the PGA Championship at Sahalee CC in Redmond, Wash.