He'd already helped a couple of small businesses run their servers, install software and build Web sites.
Many would say HTC was denied its potential for years as carriers masked its involvement and told it what hardware and software to build.
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Expect Cisco to leverage its expertise in both hardware and software to build a stronghold that will become increasingly difficult for smaller companies to penetrate.
Accel Partners began inserting the provision in early-stage rounds for portfolio companies like Mpath Interactive, which makes software to build communities (say, of karaoke fans) on Web sites.
To minimize future chaos and literally keep the trains running, Kaspersky and his company are expanding their ambitions beyond mere antivirus software to build their own, extra-secure operating system just for large-scale industry.
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Middleware is a portfolio of software products used to build and deploy software applications.
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Participants will be able to use the software development kit to build, test, and submit software to Amazon for distribution on the device.
We build software that is used to make chips that go inside cell phones.
Ericcson could become the aggregator of Internet of things data and build software experiences on top of this.
Wireless Knowledge, formed with Microsoft to build software for mobile phones, fizzled.
The company also could build software to optimize reading on certain devices like an iPhone or iPad but hasn't announced any specific plans.
That means that people can build software that analyzes data being uploaded to its online storage, then suggest actions as new data comes in.
So it is hard to build software that will predict how, for example, the wing will maintain its hold on the fuselage during flight.
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It needs to control the hardware and the software, plus build out an ecosytem around them, if it is to continue to do well.
He imagined that same spirit was being exhibited by young entrepreneurs working out of their garage to build software companies and web sites in the spring of 1997.
Cisco will soon start selling servers, and has formed an alliance with several smaller hardware and software firms to build, in effect, a data centre in a box.
Yet the same barriers that make it a challenge for one entrepreneur to build software for a wide array of phones can provide an express lane for others.
At Google Schmidt has used the Web's openness to create an even bigger and harder-to-attack network of online developers who build software for products like Google Maps and now Android.
"The idea is to make a new kind of video game, a video game you can play outside, " says Seydoux, who is inviting independent software developers to build games for the drone.
Mr. Beckers, a 39-year-old physicist from France, graduated from Stanford University with a master's of business degree in 2011 and set out to build software that could decipher heart defects from MRI readings.
Sometimes these are solo efforts, but often civic coders collaborate, either online through resources like GitHub or in person at events called "hackathons" where coders self-organize into teams and compete to build software over the course of a day or a weekend.
One alternative for Apple is to build proprietary software that renders Google less important.
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The flip side is that carriers can also unlock big opportunities for entrepreneurs with the resources to build showpiece software.
Kopic used the six months in the U.K. to visit English farms and get their input on how to build the software.
Narinder Sandhu and Pankaj Shukla, who left jobs developing payroll and accounting software for Intuit to build the Depreciate'em Web tool, think so.
But he is backing them up with his latest effort--a company called ClearNova --to create a software development environment to build AJAX applications.
Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.
He's attacking rocketry the way he would assemble software: design, build, test and repeat in rapid-fire succession to quickly determine what works and what doesn't.
He says the company, which now has about 100 people, was created about a year ago, building around the Technicolor team that build that software.
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The problem: With so few customers in the U.S. willing to do so, who will build the software that will make that worth your while?
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