When Steven Spenser, 52, was laid off from his Seattle-area software company in 2001, he decided to become a stay-at-home dad.
One challenge facing OpenGamma is that its software is in the middle area of the spectrum between proprietary software and infrastructure.
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The hot area in software development is now mobile apps for the iPhone and Android platforms, both of which have very high penetration in Hong Kong.
Formerly in marketing at Apple Computer, she has found similar work at Elemental Software in the San Diego area.
Healthcare has been second only to design of chips and software as the most fecund area of innovation in the U.S. for many years.
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Blue Coat Systems shares are trading sharply lower this morning after the Web security and wide-area network optimization software company reduced its earnings outlook and disclosed a management shake-up.
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Change is very difficult, time-consuming and often the most expensive area of any enterprise software project.
In a recessionary decade, the one thriving area of hiring, software engineering, began pioneering radical new practices in talent management.
But I know that many of the current and future businesses in that area could use the software and technology that my little company sells.
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The ever adaptable Ding founded NetEase as a software company in 1997 when that area was hot, listed it on Nasdaq three years later as an Internet portal during the dot-com boom, and then, after weathering an accounting scandal, tacked toward gaming.
The most profitable area of the country was software-heavy San Francisco, posting a median net margin of 12%.
So with GIFs in sort of a grey area, how does this software fit in with a video sharing tool like Vimeo?
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One area Apple's own software still has an edge is its integration of Flyover which offers interactive photo-realistic views of selected cities using 3D-rendered graphics within its maps app.
Running on these mobiles, and also on home and wide-area networks will be increasingly intelligent software, able to learn behaviour, predict needs and integrate with a growing number of databases, such as transport updates from major providers.
This is an emerging area that will reshape operating systems and software for many years to come.
The field is sometimes called mechatronics, an area that combines electronic, mechanics and control software.
Most of Britain's online gaming service providers use software by the GB Group, which specialises in this area.
The system is controlled by Google software that automatically recognizes which TV broadcast airwaves in the area aren't being used at a given moment and can be used for the network.
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The cars use a combination of technologies, including radar sensors on the front, video cameras aimed at the surrounding area, various other sensors and artificial-intelligence software that helps steer.
Even though the New York Times reports that Israeli start-up Umoove is offering a software solution to eye tracking, Apple already has patents in the area.
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Sensors out in the field monitor all the traffic area and report back to the box, and the software provides users with a real-time, graphical view of what's going on inside their network.
One area that appears to make sense for incubators is open source software development.
Software patents are definitely still in and companies may press further into the area of electronic processing of information, such as the so far-unpatentable methods of compressing digital signals.
When Jesse was in high school, he noticed that farmers around the area spent a good amount of money buying clunky desktop farm management software.
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Yet as financial planning software gets more sophisticated, human planners are spending more and more time in this area.
They must move beyond their area of strength and comfort into the unfamiliar territory of trying to become a software platform company.
Use free software like WordPress or TypePad to create a blog, where you can write about your area of expertise, post your resume and keep track of your professional accomplishments.
Strolling down the aisle of a trade show in the area of metal fabrication, I chatted with the owner of a cost-accounting software company.
Other software lets identical boxes mimic the features of either flavor that most storage systems come in: storage area networks or network-attached storage.
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