In advance of my 22-years in the technology sector, I qualified as a builder and surveyor in the construction industry, where I pioneered innovative software solutions for supporting customer-facing activities.

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The software-maker has been hit by the downturn in construction spending.

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Support services and technology, hardware and equipment companies issued the greatest number of warnings in Scotland during 2012, with three each, followed by construction and materials businesses and software and computer services firms.

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Meanwhile, the construction of a new data center in North Carolina may herald an era of tighter integration between software and services at Apple.

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Security flaws in commercial software and hardware were popular topics at camp workshops, which included discussions on "Biometric Insecurity" and the construction of Windows NT Shell Code for Buffer Overflow Exploits.

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