If nothing else, Elop needs to get Nokia churning out better software and more innovative handset designs.
Software got more robust, so Microsoft and Lotus sold more software and became successful.
Other promising areas, he said, include wireless and corporate mobility, systems management software, and more managed services.
He also referenced the planned integration of its handheld and console divisions, intended to make software and apps more portable between devices.
That might not seem a big percentage, but the hit rate will get better as face-recognition software improves and more snaps are uploaded.
As an inventor, entrepreneur and currently the director of Product Innovation for SolidWorks, Chin has been a pioneer of 3 Dimensional printing, digital modeling software and, more recently, sustainable design practices.
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Add a few more components and a little more software, and it could become a home server that holds games, movies and music, and distributes them over a home network.
The complexity will only increase as more business is automated and shifted onto the Internet and more software production is assigned to India, Russia and China.
This becomes even more important as storage software and services are comparatively more valuable as a business than storage hardware as demonstrated in our EMC model above.
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Emotion UI is also pre-installed with a smartphone housekeeper function to support real-time data traffic tracking, automatic blacklisting and blocking, periodical system cleaning, and spontaneous exiting of idle programs and cache cleanup, in addition to anti-virus, energy saving, privacy protection, software management, and more.
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Intel and Facebook have long been technology collaboration partners on hardware and software optimizations to drive more efficiency and scale for Facebook data centers.
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Microsoft makes business software for enterprises and, more importantly, Microsoft makes database software.
This is true even though technologies such as virtualization, deduplication, intelligent storage tiering and more recently software defined storage allow more efficient utilization of storage hardware.
It helps American workers by letting them keep more money, and it helps small businesses so that family-owned restaurants and start-up software companies can hire more workers and provide more jobs for Americans.
But as software and networks get more complex, synchronization doesn't always go smoothly.
Antycip Simulation, based in Paris, sells its simulation software and equipment to more than 15 governments in Africa, Europe and North America.
"I felt like I won the lottery when I got accepted, " says Mr. Chakra, who manages a large group of software developers and has more than 55 patents.
Companies have to choose between tape storage for archiving, cheap disk storage for everyday nonessential data like backups and video archives, better gear and software for the more important records such as essential e-mails and tax returns and very pricey faultless storage (with outages measured in seconds per year) for online transactions and stock exchanges.
Their access to capital, made a little easier by the success of LinkedIn, will help them fund their growth, hire more employees and hopefully enable them to purchase more of our software and services to help them grow.
Images expand the range of thinking and might yield new kinds of written expression once software makes it easier and more natural to work photos (or the writer's own sketches) into the text.
Besides, did Bill Gates go to IBM and say my software is becoming more important than your hardware and one day my company might be worth more than yours?
These powertrains continue to get sweeter, more refined, more isolated and dove-winged with every passing year, as the software that drives them grows more agile and dynamic.
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The new version is easier to build and has more-elegant software, ten times the memory, more-precise motors, a speaker and digital sensors.
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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They say it will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
At the same time investment into real estate has tripled, while both software and financial flows have more than doubled.
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The systems from Juniper rely more on software than ever, and are built to allow more virtualization across the network.
Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored.
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The Unix bedrock has also attracted more and more software developers to the Mac platform, like Scott Lopatin who wrote a new blogging tool called Sparkpod.
In addition, web-based technologies and other software advances make customizing these systems simpler and more cost-effective.
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