The largest utility, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), recently joined forces with Microsoft and Softbank, a Japanese software and media conglomerate, to offer unmetered Internet access.
"The iPad has fundamentally changed consumer expectations of software and media consumption so it's no surprise that our users were clamoring for a native app, " said Dropcam CEO and Co-Founder Greg Duffy.
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This will especially be true because of the rise of location based software and social media networks such as Google Maps, foursquare and Facebook Places.
The outline that is emerging--a Frankenstein-like fusion of an enterprise software company and Internet media giant--isnt much prettier.
It's already happening with software and other print media such as magazines.
DIW. Jobs in software, media and advertising are growing fast.
Software for social media and apps requires intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces that seamlessly convey information.
As for where they plan to park new capital, most VCs were bullish on cloud computing, social media, software and healthcare services.
AutoTrader, a US media and software solutions provider to automotive dealers, decided to untangle its myriad go-to-market organizations after making four acquisitions in two years.
Because at present Netscape is seen as a highly speculative stock, due to well-founded worries about the company's long-term ability to build a hybrid media and software company. (See "Net confusion").
The smart cookies at the Social Science Research Council have spent three years researching media and software piracy in so-called emerging economies -- countries like Brazil, Russia, India and Mexico -- which has this past week resulted in a comprehensive report aimed at establishing the trends and causes of the unauthorized consumption of intellectual property.
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Growth has also benefited from the larger memory requirements associated with newer, more visually and feature rich computing platforms and software applications, and the storing and play back of higher quality media files such as high definition video.
Fogelsong: We continue to focus on Internet, digital media, enterprise software and mobile.
But marrying a media and a software company will not be easy.
Microsoft abused its virtual monopoly in the computer world to muscle out smaller rivals, especially those that make media players and software for servers.
In May, Google succeed in winning an injunction against Microsoft in Germany, allowing it to impose a sales ban there against the Xbox 360 games console, Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer browser and Windows Media Player.
In May 2012, Google succeeded in winning an injunction against Microsoft in Germany, allowing it to impose a sales ban there against the Xbox 360 games console, Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer browser and Windows Media Player.
Media companies and software vendors spend millions every year trying to stop people from trading their wares over the Internet, and the Recording Industry Association of America has even gone so far as to sue individual users of file-sharing networks.
For its part, Accel says it will continue to invest across cloud services and next generation infrastructure, social media and e-commerce, gaming, software and open mobile.
In effect, multinationals are creating a global oligopolistic market in areas as diverse as media, steel and software.
The rx3700 - Another Mobile Media Companion, the rx3700 has the same media and universal remote software as the rx3100, a 400MHz processbuilt-in WiFi and Bluetooth, a 3.5-inch LCD screen, and an SD expansion card slot, but also has a built-in 1.2 megapixel digital camera.
It sets a new standard for thinness in LTE devices, uses leading-edge display technology, resists flexing, glass breakage and water damage, has a striking design and thoughtfully selected materials, stretches battery life, matches with a bevy of optimized accessories, and enables remote file and media access via Motocast software .
But I want those resources to be used smartly, not just by taking advantage of hardware and software that can improve education, but also by using social media to supplement what teachers do and make it increasingly possible for people to learn outside the confines of a classroom.
The company is based in Silicon Valley and Shanghai, and its clients include worldwide leaders in game software, hardware, and services, as well as hedge funds, media companies, trade associations, and management consulting firms, all of whom have a vested interest in a thorough understanding of the games industry in Southeast Asian and China.
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Using the video feed on an iPad, he pointed the device at various printed media and showed how the software brought the images to life on the tablet screen.
The extraordinary boom in financial services in the City has been the key to London's prosperity, combined with the growth of other big employers like media, software, professional services and tourism.
In one scenario, Microsoft would be divided along functional lines: one company that makes applications software, one built around the Internet and other new media, and one that just does Windows.
This new usage model is designed for customers running 3D workloads in the engineering, medical, media and entertainment, scientific, software development and economic and finance market segments looking to support additional users on a single workstation.
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And over the course of the decade from 2000 onwards social software allowed people to create content in competition with established media outlets, first through blogging and then through social networks.
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In 2012, the host of social-media flotations could include GlamMedia, Kayak Software and LivingSocial.
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