In the future, a heavyweight approval process will govern all consumer software distribution.
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Private businesses spend years developing and refining such consumer software.
Founded in 2010, Massive Health is comprised of world-class talent from leading consumer software companies and is focused on making the world a healthier place by applying technology and design to health.
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He expects that Oracle will eventually wake up to the need for more vigilance in quickly detecting and blocking attacks on its consumer software, just as Microsoft has done over the last decade.
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Microsoft says it is stepping away from live consumer marketing events such as the International Consumer Electronics Show, held in early January in Las Vegas, and clearly consumer software will be less and less the focus.
For example, Dearing mentioned that Heroku, a platform service for developers building and deploying apps in the cloud, benefited by applying strategies and tactics to the developer market that they had observed in the consumer software market.
He is particularly focused on Navio, a consumer-software consortium recently launched by Netscape and others designed to make sure that Windows and Windows CE (its consumer-electronics cousin) do not become the standard for interactive television and game machines.
Some of the sectors he thinks are overvalued for India investors include the consumer and software names.
Can these initiatives help Symantec regain its lost share in the consumer security software market, or will it continue to decline?
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Corporate versions of popular consumer IM software let employees send instant messages safely from behind company firewalls, handle archiving and screen for content.
Its consumer IM software can let any user chat with most any other by "spoofing, " disguising instant messages as native to the recipient's system.
The system, called Sentinel, includes elements resembling Web browsers, with tabs and movable windows, and forms that are filled out in a question-and-answer format similar to consumer tax software.
Since the iMac was unveiled in May, Apple says new Mac versions of more than 175 consumer-oriented software titles have been announced.
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Examples are numerous, and the point is what makes people want to buy Apple products is the consumer experience, and what drives the consumer experience is software development.
It is not the quality of its consumer-facing software or interface that will determine its success and insulate it from competition, as it has for Google, Facebook, and even Amazon.
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"The iPad has fundamentally changed consumer expectations of software and media consumption so it's no surprise that our users were clamoring for a native app, " said Dropcam CEO and Co-Founder Greg Duffy.
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Good times among corporations have led many to invest heavily in software productivity tools, while those marketing consumer goods have boosted spending for software and internet-related advertising.
However, smaller developers lack the street credibility to market their software with consumer confidence.
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The music, consumer-electronics and software industries continue to struggle to agree on an encryption system for protecting copyright-owners.
Tenaya invests in enterprise software, consumer Internet, IT infrastructure, communications and electronics.
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Unlike with Foursquare or typical consumer location-broadcasting software, which either shows your location only to friends or announces publicly that users are checked in at a busy bar, museum, or restaurant, the tracking of Gibbons was extremely granular and showed her on a boat, by herself, in a wooded area devoid of crowds.
Unlike nearly any other consumer product that includes Microsoft software, it has nary a trace of Microsoft branding.
There is no way for a consumer to know whether the software they are buying is legitimate or malicious.
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Founded by three former sales reps at MCI, the company has found explosive growth, and hefty margins, making software that helps consumer giants connect with their customers en masse via mobile phones.
Maybe, we're a bit overconfident, but the PlayStation 2 remains incredibly viable -- great contributions to the bottom line and great software for the consumer -- so I think we felt like we could have a little more patience in terms of getting to where we needed to get to.
The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumer storage solutions, network-attached storage solutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumer storage products.
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And of course these software apps are highly consumer-friendly, and their market is driven by BYOD.
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Portable game consoles have traditionally have long life spans, enabling the vendors to build big consumer bases and churn out profitable software titles over a 5-7 year span.
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Jobs said that Apple is essentially a software company whose hardware is a beautiful box for the product, but that close coupling of hardware and software was generally necessary in consumer electronics.
In addition to showcasing the PCIe-based Vector Series, OCZ will also present its portfolio of enterprise and consumer SSDs, as well as enterprise software used to cache, virtualize or accelerate key applications and associated data.
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