And cell phone manufacturers have struggled to come up with a software to satisfy all those demands.
You'll then need to send a software update to the scales, which took a forgivable two minutes.
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T-Mobile is working with LG to deliver a software update to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) for the G2x, which we expect will deliver some performance enhancements.
Company President Peter Goltra, an engineer by training, began thinking about how to build a software engine to help doctors more quickly access patient information more than thirty years ago.
But he is backing them up with his latest effort--a company called ClearNova --to create a software development environment to build AJAX applications.
SmartThings covers this base with a software development kit and a API that seeks to provide everything a good software hacker needs to integrate SmartThings devices into his or her apps.
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Because the technology is changing rapidly enough to demand ingenuity and imagination and because there is a software component to it.
Last year, Microsoft made its first foray into homegrown computing devices with its Surface tablet, and company executives have said more devices are in the works, as it makes a shift from a software maker to what Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has called a "devices and services" company.
VMware aspires to be for data centers what Microsoft is for PCs, both providing a software platform to run web applications (like, for example, Google Docs) and also managing the hardware that powers them.
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Networking revenue grew 40% year over year, as Dell transitioned itself from being a PC-centric company to a software and services company, similar to IBM ( IBM).
As the technology industry shifts from a hardware-based model to a software-based model, New York is positioned well with access to clients and a pool of potential employees who understand marketing, consumers, media and communications, Mr. Pinsky said.
Businesses today are being taught not to choose a software but rather to choose a company.
After entering the first time to open doors needed later, the intruder returned to install a software package designed to carry out an attack, Schmidt said.
The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace defective batteries.
Teachers can use a software suite to take control of the machines via wi-fi and point them at various Web-based education programs.
Asked whether the UCITA covers issues that arise when hackers use a bug in a software product to harm end-user organizations, Miller answered no.
This non-profit venture led in part by scientists from Stanford University has developed a software tool to help map out the value of natural resources.
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Gamestop has recently suggested that it might start selling more refurbished hardware as well, making the transition from a software retailer to a high-tech pawnshop.
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You'll also want a software firewall to block nasty "malware" intrusions.
The handful of participating startups could be from a technocrat's dream with products ranging from a tablet teacher training software to a solar-powered cooking stove.
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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Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.
Pravir equipped medical team members with a software tool to track their feelings throughout the day, with a focus on emotions felt right before, during, and after team meetings.
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Using a software program to compare the sequences of the genes that give the instructions for making egg proteins, they show that teleosts with floating eggs share a gene called VtgAa.
After nearly three years of experimental work, the team -- especially postdoctoral associate Andreas Velten and MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, many students, and several collaborators -- cobbled together pieces of the puzzle and built a software program to create a first demonstration of looking around corners.
Starting out in a tiny office not far from Dalal Street where the BSE is situated, they took three years--Shah wrote the product specifications, and Neralla the software code--to develop a robust software package that was user friendly enough to run on a car battery, a nifty feature in a power-scarce country.
On one hand it sold the PDA itself, and on the other it was attempting to build a software business by licensing its PDA software to companies with which it would essentially compete on the hardware side.
Sabiston, a professional programmer and engineer, got Nintendo to send him a DS software development kit which allowed him to pump out a sweet painting and animation app to make his DS bot a visual virtuoso (example pictured left).
Whether it was trying to reduce the number of steps to cut the lawn as a child, reduce the time it took a computer program to run as a software developer, or today, trying to get more done with less energy.
Eventually, the technicians had to use a software tool called BCWipe to completely erase the GCS' internal hard drives.
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