Microsoft is still primarily a vendor of software licences, earning fat profits that it can use to subsidise a search war almost indefinitely.
Another new choice, Computer Associates, vendor of software to corporate networks, is revamping its strategy to better compete with Oracle and recover its lost profitability.
Another company that could be dinged by a U.S. slump, paradoxically, is the German software vendor SAP.
Blinkx's technology comes from U.K.-based enterprise-software vendor Autonomy (with which the company shares a San Francisco office).
Depending on your software vendor that application may have already been created or is in the works.
Alternatively, you may wish to seek technical support from your media player software vendor (websites are listed above).
Both McAfee and UK-based antivirus software vendor Sophos PLC said they posted an alert to the variant on their Web sites.
At the same time, Conducent sells the on-screen space to such advertisers as Amazon, an online bookstore, and Egghead, a software vendor.
With a cloud based application most of these tasks, with the exception of customization and training, are now assumed by the software vendor.
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He took over a software vendor, and now his company, Trading Technologies, handles more than half the electronic volume at the four biggest derivatives exchanges.
But the legislation itself contemplates confusion, as it spells out when a merchant is liable for errors and when a software vendor takes the blame.
Marten Mickos, CEO of Southern California cloud-software vendor Eucalyptus Systems Inc.
Another company that could be dinged by a U.S. slump, paradoxically, is the German software vendor SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ).
What annoys a software vendor the most about their customers?
In software vendor companies, data scientists have two roles: on a tactical level, helping close the deals by providing pre-sales support to either acquire new customers or upsell to existing customers.
For devices that also include optical disc playback functionality, which will be enabled by independent software vendor (ISV) applications installed on devices running Windows 8, OEMs will be required to pay a higher per-unit rate.
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Last week, THQ Wireless --the mobile subsidiary of software vendor THQ (nasdaq: THQI - news - people ) announced a deal with Lucasfilm to create phone content based on the Star Wars films.
That court overturned a previous ruling by Jackson that barred Microsoft from requiring PC makers licensing Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system to also take the software vendor's Internet Explorer Web browser as part of the license.
Of course, exploiting a hole is also the only way to test that it has been fixed, so those outside the inner circle will be forced to rely on the software vendor's say-so when they get fixes and patches.
As someone who evangelizes mobility full-time for an enterprise mobility software vendor in the most high-tech region in the world but was still issued a 4-year-old greige Dell laptop by my company, suffice to say that I am totally jealous of these kids.
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James Faucette, a wireless analyst at Pacific Crest Securities said Motorola's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) acquisition of mobile e-mail software vendor Good Technology could make Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) a good fit for Motorola.
In 2004, software vendor The SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ) sued Linux user AutoZone (nyse: AZO - news - people ) for what it claims are violations of its intellectual property--a case that hasn't yet been resolved.
Unlike many other devices on the market, these flagship models come loaded with a stock version of Android, unadorned by any vendor additions to the software.
Symantec took their eye off the ball when they acquired Veritas. 2005 was way too early for a software security vendor to attempt to mature into a tech holding company like IBM or HP.
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For remote deposit of checks, Wells Fargo again built its own system rather than buying a check reader and software from a vendor.
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Keeping them properly configured, updated with the latest software from the vendor and monitoring the logs they generate is the primary duty of the network security team.
Try to use software from only one vendor and hardware from just another.
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Using reconciliation software from a commercial vendor, it is building a comparison engine to run its quality control business.
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