51.   Piotrowski follows stocks listed in both Toronto and New York, including software publishers Hummingbird Communications Inc., Cognos Inc. and Softquad International Inc.

52.   Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is the largest software publisher in the world.

53.   Seybold is also the show where top software publishers like Adobe Systems Inc. and Quark Inc. show off the latest versions of their document-creation programs.

54.   Sega, which is based in Japan and has operations in San Francisco, is teaming up with other console makers and software publishers to fight back.

55.   Several analysts suggested that one possibility would be for the giant software publisher to respond to Groove by building competing software components directly into the Windows operating system.

56.   Smaller software publishers joined Microsoft in reporting better-than-expected earnings.

57.   Software publishers, health-care and health maintenance organization stocks retreated.

58.   Software publisher Microsoft Corp. and computer modem-maker U.S. Robotics Corp. buoyed the index.

59.   Software publishers have argued that stiff controls on the export of coding software hamper them in international competition.

60.   Software publishers said Texas was alone in its aggressive scrutiny of legal self-help material.