We build software that is used to make chips that go inside cell phones.
Ericcson could become the aggregator of Internet of things data and build software experiences on top of this.
Wireless Knowledge, formed with Microsoft to build software for mobile phones, fizzled.
The company also could build software to optimize reading on certain devices like an iPhone or iPad but hasn't announced any specific plans.
That means that people can build software that analyzes data being uploaded to its online storage, then suggest actions as new data comes in.
So it is hard to build software that will predict how, for example, the wing will maintain its hold on the fuselage during flight.
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He imagined that same spirit was being exhibited by young entrepreneurs working out of their garage to build software companies and web sites in the spring of 1997.
Yet the same barriers that make it a challenge for one entrepreneur to build software for a wide array of phones can provide an express lane for others.
At Google Schmidt has used the Web's openness to create an even bigger and harder-to-attack network of online developers who build software for products like Google Maps and now Android.
Mr. Beckers, a 39-year-old physicist from France, graduated from Stanford University with a master's of business degree in 2011 and set out to build software that could decipher heart defects from MRI readings.
Sometimes these are solo efforts, but often civic coders collaborate, either online through resources like GitHub or in person at events called "hackathons" where coders self-organize into teams and compete to build software over the course of a day or a weekend.
Middleware is a portfolio of software products used to build and deploy software applications.
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One alternative for Apple is to build proprietary software that renders Google less important.
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The flip side is that carriers can also unlock big opportunities for entrepreneurs with the resources to build showpiece software.
Kopic used the six months in the U.K. to visit English farms and get their input on how to build the software.
He says the company, which now has about 100 people, was created about a year ago, building around the Technicolor team that build that software.
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The problem: With so few customers in the U.S. willing to do so, who will build the software that will make that worth your while?
It used to be relatively expensive to build a software company.
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.
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.
Mr. Pichai said that would depend on what manufacturers choose to build with the software.
Imagine for a moment you are going to build a new software product today.
Rather, Sinofsky will probably build his own software company that compliments the work of Microsoft and other tech giants.
Actually, with its extensive experience with the JVM, Azul now has been able to build a pure software implementation.
That six-times-revenue buyout is higher even than other recent acquisitions of firms similar to Fortify that aim to build security into software development.
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Participants will be able to use the software development kit to build, test, and submit software to Amazon for distribution on the device.
Future product releases will build on current software and tools, Klein says, and will probably add applications like software distribution, remote diagnostics, patches and systems management.
The current build of the software, though, is another matter entirely -- it's in a pretty raw alpha state right now and hugh swaths of core functionality appear to be missing.
He'd already helped a couple of small businesses run their servers, install software and build Web sites.
Microsoft will be relying on the likes of Dell, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, and Toshiba to build phones around its software.
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