So now the tax collectors promise that software will figure out how every item is taxed in every town in America.

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One such elusive item is a phone running software from Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) new Android mobile-software platform.

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And the biggest line item in their IT budgets is for database software.

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