With the rise of App stores and cloud centric software, these smart devices are quickly becoming a secondary part of the equation and the Apps themselves are taking center stage.

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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).

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The current version of the software is people-centric, emphasizing the aggregation of social feeds and photos of people deemed important to users.

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For computer-based learning to transform schools into child-centric learning environments, schools must implement the instructional software disruptively, by letting it compete where the alternative is no teacher at all.

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In May, Microsoft released Kineck for Windows 1.5 with an SDK (Software Developers Kit) to facilitate the creation of PC-centric apps for the motion sensor.

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In the OpenStack space companies like Mirantis, Piston Cloud, CloudScaling, Nebula and even IBM, Canonical and Red Hat are begining to benefit from this new consultant centric view of IT rather then the more traditional one size fits all approach of data center software popularized by VMware.

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Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.

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