Amazon can be expected to point to a 2009 court decision involving Veritas Software Corp, now part of Symantec Corp.
This decision to push software for mixed environments in favor of its proprietary ones signaled a new maturity within IBM.
Liu also criticized them for participating in a "hasty" decision to hire former software executive Leo Apotheker in 2010.
Last March Microsoft filed an appeal to the Korean FTC, asking it to reconsider its decision about unbundling the software.
As efficiency washes over every discipline, the associated trends of automation and software-driven decision-making are putting people out of work.
That could prove just as disastrous for IBM and Dragon Systems' competing voice-recognition software as the decision to bundle the Explorer Web browser was for Netscape.
Also cause for concern is the suggestion in the article that Namco Bandai and From Software made the decision to move Miyazaki off the project in order to bring fresh perspective to the sequel and make it more accessible to a broader audience.
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Another promising application of mHealth involves integrating mobiles into EHRs and software for clinical-decision support.
In the Final Office Action, three examiners of the PTO considered TiVo's response and, in a detailed 32-page decision, finally concluded that the software claims were unpatentable in view of two prior art references.
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After Gerstner granted approval for a new, independent software business, the organization's first decision -- described by insiders as "gut wrenching" -- was to put its key software products, most notably CICS, MQSeries and DB2, on its competitors' platforms, specifically Microsoft's NT.
However, chief executive Stephen Elop said the decision to focus on Microsoft's software gave his firm the best opportunity to "compete with competitors like Samsung".
Regarding the Supreme Court decision on violent video games, Entertainment Software Association President and CEO Michael Gallagher talks about that litigation in the video interview below.
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In 2003 Schneider decided to invest in a fleet-wide "tactical planning simulator" that would use software algorithms to mimic the decision making of human dispatchers on an inhumanly large scale.
Because the Hubble repair mission was originally scheduled for October, a decision was taken to use the navigation software from the most recent previous mission to the Hubble, in 1997.
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The decision leaves for future litigation questions about whether software that involves an algorithm based on natural laws, for example, or patents on certain medical procedures will survive review.
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In the separate decision involving Microsoft, the court said that the software company was liable for patent infringement by installing a digital speech encoder on versions of its Windows operating system that are copied and sold overseas.
Many developers were concerned that this decision could lead to a chilling effect on the production of software, opening the door to a torrent of lawsuits - affecting firms of all sizes.
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Another example of the closing gap between the worlds of gaming and grown-up simulation is the decision in May by Digital Sandbox, a supplier of simulation software to America's defence department, to set up a consumer division to make computer games.
These companies have been able to improve their decision-making based on the infrastructure technology and analytics-related software they have been developing.
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Software, he predicted, would search the networks, locating information and collating it to help you make a buying decision, even haggling on your behalf with the seller's software.
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Corporate IT decision makers need to take a careful look at the new hardware, software and support capabilities required to adopt tablets successfully.
The session will include a demonstration of the UGROW software, a complete and fully integrated modelling package and a decision-support tool for urban water management.
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And while it may still cause wrinkled brows and sleepless nights for IT pros, those of us in the software business are hearing more and more from CIOs and tech decision-makers that they want to support user choice.
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Today, evidence-based medicine is accessible for clinicians and linked to software that provides real-time, high-quality clinical decision support, which leads to increased accuracy, better patient care, streamlined documentation and the elimination of costs formerly related to manual inefficiencies.
General Electric, who will be creating over 600 direct and indirect jobs at their Technology Center in New Orleans, made the decision to open its new division in Louisiana after FastStart created unique enterprise software talent recruitment initiatives for the Fortune 500 company.
It is true that it was the widespread belief in the industry that the Supreme Court in Benson decided that software was not patentable, which is a fair reading of the decision.
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The consumerization of software meanwhile illustrates how people are just plain fed up with big company decision making, and they are opting instead to freelance their IT purchases.
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Analysts put the switch in the number two slot down to a decision IBM made in 2005 to sell off its PC business to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo to concentrate on software and services.
Even as the software-applications business consolidates around a small handful of major players, IBM appears committed to its decision to keep out.
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