The economic consequences of defective software will be less, according to Kaner.

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The wireless carriers have failed to warn consumers that the smartphones sold to them are defective, that they are running vulnerable software, and that other smartphones are available that receive regular, prompt updates to which consumers could switch.

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Each year businesses spend tens of billions of dollars installing software that they know to be defective.

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Each year American businesses spend tens of billions of dollars installing software that they know to be defective.

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The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace defective batteries.

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And a brand new kind of software allowed him to use information about the family and their genetic material to find the defective gene.

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