In recent years Sun has put together a sizeable portfolio of these free programs written by communities of developers, hoping that firms using this software would then buy its expensive hardware.

ECONOMIST: Computing

He unveiled a new app this week for paying at some stores by checking in using the software and saying your name to the cashier.

CNN: Mark Milian

If you want to preserve any of the original order, you have to manually manage this by changing the track names in whatever software you're using to manage the music on the device.

ENGADGET: iRiver H10: Hands-on review

In order to tap into this unrealised potential, the IBM team came up with software that works by using geometrical patterns to represent words.

BBC: The software is based on pattern recognition

People with disabilities are being trained this month to produce audio content using special software which will then be aired by Community Radio Madanpokhara.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Graham Cluley, a computer security expert from net security company Sophos, told the BBC that there were ways for computer owners to protect their machines from this type of fraud - for instance, by using up-to-date anti-virus software.

BBC: Luminous keyboard