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Unmarked Software has posted textSOAP 3.0.1 — an update to the company’s Internet text cleaning utility. The latest revision to this software offers three fixes: unexpected quits associated with drag-n-drop inside the application, incorrect delete warning in custom cleaner editor and purchase/upgrade engine to avoid the “unknown error.” textSOAP 3 is available for US$19.95 ($9.95 upgrade for existing users).

IntelliMerge 1.2.7r2 is an update to Intelli Innovations’ e-mail merge software carbonized for Mac OS X. This update fixes a small mathematical error that caused sending HTML messages to hang in some situations. IntelliMerge is available online for US$59.95.

Dell today posted a second-quarter profit of US$433 million, meeting analysts’ expectations. Revenue for the quarter came in at $7.61 billion, nearly unchanged from last year. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard reported a third-quarter profit of US$218 million on revenues of $10.1 billion, down from a $1.04 billion last year on revenues of $11.8 billion.

Gateway has closed six under-performing Gateway Country retail stores and opened three new ones, after closing 27 stores in March and putting on hold most plans to open new stores. The PC maker, which has been struggling as of late to find its niche in the industry, currently has a total of 296 stores in the US.

Teng Chou Ming & Peter Hardman have released Extension Overload 5.9, a new version of their robust extensions manager. Extension Overload allows users to manage extensions, control panels, control strip modules, and more and includes more than 5100 descriptions of such items. The new version adds more than 200 new descriptions, support for Mac OS 9.2. Extension Overload is US$29 shareware.