Software hippers are under fire from the Advertising Standards Authority. The Software Library of West Liss, Hampshire, is criticised in the ASA's latest report for exaggerating its range of titles and the Software Supermarket of South London had a complaint against its advertised claims upheld.

Prizes of a Porsche, £1,000, and software are on offer from Firebird, Adventure Zone and Cheetahsoft respectively. To win the Porsche you have to crach Firebird's Gyron, the £1,000 goes to the best adventure submitted to Adventure Zone, and if you find your way around Cheetahsoft's Parky and the Yellow Submarine you'll win the second Parky game.

Sir Clive might be shy of going public with Sinclair but Martin Vlieland-Boddy, once of Torch and now of Active Technologies, hasn't been deterred by a little panic in the City. Active, designer of the Graduate IBM add-on for the BBC, has just raised £200,000 on the stock market.

Quicksilva has bought the rights to seven Bug-Byte titles and its managing director Rod Cousens is looking forward to "other areas of involvement at a later stage". Quicksilva itself is a part of the Argus group, and consolidation of the software business looks on the cards.

Research Machine's new Nimbus (issue 97) is now available to users in education with Microsoft's Word and Multiplan at a discount.