But at a meeting with analysts last month, Mr Gates acknowledged that Microsoft would expand its security-software offering.
Dalgaard says they can improve some features of SuccessFactors by 6, 000% with HANA. He says that together they will have an extremely competitive cloud software offering.
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Furthermore, Apples success started with the great of idea of creating itunes software and offering it free for download.
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In September, Opera released version 8.50 of its software, offering it for free.
Each key can display any image by using Razer's Synapse 2.0 software, offering gamers the smartest keyboard on the market.
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In this case the desktop computer's processors power the software, offering higher quality graphics than could be rendered by the mobile processor.
Even Google is now offering software that allows its applications to be used off the internet.
After the SIIA official was outbid, he would receive an e-mail from a seller offering software for less than his lowest bid.
Take it one step further and integrate into this potential software and service offering an overhauled Maps apps and things become really interesting.
They design and manage every aspect of online contests offering software, strategic contest design, account management, marketing, legal help, and contest rules development.
He has since gone on to experiment with the idea of self-learning, offering software to children living in remote parts of India so that they can teach themselves.
Most enterprise software giants have started offering cloud-based, on-demand versions of their software, aiming to capture market share in the rapidly growing cloud computing market.
On Sun's part, the acquisition gives the server and software company a database offering that is capable of storing and manipulating the information used by its software tools, a role it has largely handed to Oracle.
That way, they can minimize software development needs while still offering variety, which could defend against cyberattacks targeted at a specific type of software platform.
Other software startups that are offering similar services include GridNavigator and Smart Grid Billing.
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So far it is offering the software to 1 million homes in Washington, Micro-soft's home base.
Google might also seek to integrate Sun software with its Gmail offering, with a view to challenging Microsoft's Outlook.
Like other handset manufacturers, Nokia concedes that the future of the smartphone industry lies in offering innovative software and applications.
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When a client's business dropped off, she says, employees were told to "warm-call" them offering free software upgrades and volume discounts.
Card.io is offering a software developers kit in a beta program and is already working with MogoTix which sells tickets to events.
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Do Assistant seeks to take speech software even further by offering a suite of common business applications that run entirely by voice command.
And Swartz has engaged these big companies by offering its software, dubbed MetraNet, either through a perpetual or term-based license or as a managed service.
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Even though the New York Times reports that Israeli start-up Umoove is offering a software solution to eye tracking, Apple already has patents in the area.
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Earthlink recently began offering users software that would request confirmation that the sender is a person (the idea being that an actual person must be on the other end to confirm).
It is similar to what happened a few years ago when companies such as VMware Inc. began offering virtualization software that made it possible to run more than one program on a single server system.
This basically means that anyone can download the YaCy software and help improve its offering by spreading the load of queries that people might search for online.
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The light weight comes thanks, in part, to the fact that the company didn't beef up the battery, instead offering up some software bumps it says compensate for the additional battery drain that comes with things like a revved-up display.
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On the software side, Lenovo is offering such things as the ability to disable ports and cameras, McAfee anti virus, VPN support for Cisco or Juniper, virtualization of remote desktop support from Citrix, remote wipe or disable from Computrace, and Active Directory password support.
In addition, NASA Ames was offering a open source software for mission control.
Ad-tracking software provider Marin Software jumped after its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
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