For the first time in the memory of most people in the enterprise computing and software business, Oracle Open World took a back seat to a whole new industry event, this one dedicated to the Cloud and to Big Data.
Growth has also benefited from the larger memory requirements associated with newer, more visually and feature rich computing platforms and software applications, and the storing and play back of higher quality media files such as high definition video.
Interest in cloud computing and collaboration software have heated up considerably in recent months.
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Best Buy estimates that its domestic market share was down 110 basis points from the comparable period last year for the three months ended October 31, citing weakness in TVs, mobile computing and gaming software.
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The upside to our estimates come from the expected growth in storage software driven by cloud computing and the growth in security software driven by the Windows 8 release.
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The Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising giant saw a 36.7% leap from last year.
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Apple's success has also bred heightened competition in the computing, software and home electronics arenas, and any loss of momentum by Apple will result in both lost sales and a lower stock price.
There is a global market for talent and all software and cloud computing companies are now required to be global if they want to compete.
HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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Steve Jobs was taught computing by Steve Wozniak and software by Andy Hertzfeld.
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The segment offers operating systems, network services and workgroup computing software solutions based on the Linux open source operating system.
Hadoop is rising to prominence in an era of ubiquitous cloud computing and proven models for Software-as-a-Service, which dilute the power of some of the traditional models for commercializing open source.
Mobile computing, the falling cost of software creation and distribution and smart computing algorithms are already here.
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Snapdragon is an application processor, which is an integral part of a smartphone and is used for giving the computing power for handling mobile phone software and applications.
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When the judge interprets the law on this issue as a next step in the case, much will be at stake for computer programmers trying to build interoperable devices, for consumers who rely on these devices and for the future of the software industry and cloud computing.
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Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.
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After a while another king of computing emerged and it is a software company.
These include gaming, visual computing, embedded device and machine software and now security.
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The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
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But ubiquitous digital consumer data, cheap computing power and open-source software have created a tremendous opportunity for smart marketers to change the research game.
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HP's business spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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The company known for its mainframe and other complex computing software said that bookings fell 1% (4% on constant-currency basis) partially due to weaker results in internet security business.
The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.
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Will on demand and cloud computing represent the only means for customers to consume software and services?
Other players, like Layered Technologies and Enki, which use 3Tera's Applogic software to serve up their computing and storage to customers, will also become part of the standard by default.
Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.
Windows and Android are the world's most successful computing platforms, with massive ecosystems of system and software developers.
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This liquefaction of hardware, in turn, will allow computing to become a utility, and software a service delivered online.
Other conditions for early take-off include the ready availability of the right kind of software, computing platforms and systems-integration expertise.
As for where they plan to park new capital, most VCs were bullish on cloud computing, social media, software and healthcare services.
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