For example, a game developer's software could improve the realism of a military simulation system.
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"Software could shape the outcome of a surprise election--and we'll never know, " says Dill.
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"Companies that receive daily updates of good anti-virus software could nip this thing in the bud, " Grossman says.
For example, it was still statutorily true that software could only be sold for the price of reproduction.
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The software could also be used to verify the likelihood of other predictions, according to the research paper.
To see whether the biotech software could really work on Wall Street, Paul tried it on a historical model of gas prices.
What if your business software could help you choose the right prospects?
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The business of selling software could be the next category Apple reinvents.
For example, the target audience for accounting software could be people who want to organize their finances to operate their businesses more efficiently.
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Absolute Software might not have a SWAT team at its disposal, but its new LoJack for Laptops software could be just as effective.
While browsing one day on Amazon.com, he asked himself why business software could not be delivered the same way: via a web browser.
This is a bad thing because what is, in effect, proprietary software could have all sorts of technical issues that are hidden and unacceptable.
If all works as planned, the software could shave a year off the time it takes Boeing to bring the plane to market, scheduled for 2008.
But church leaders said they had to silence it completely because the bell's computer software could not be programmed locally to stop it chiming at night.
Trigger control software could be relaxed when the gun is at home or in a car, while other safety features stay on to prevent accidental discharges.
In 2007, Facebook's young CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, welcomed widget makers by providing the kind of help that would ensure that their software could operate smoothly within Facebook.
Upadhyay said the software could also be embedded in a smartphone, though it would have to be done so in a way that protected it from malware attack.
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The smartphone software could then use this to work out which part of its camera's image should be superimposed and what angle of the interior image should be shown.
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And if Apple jams a Wi-Fi receiver into the device the new software could allow the iPod to include the ability to browse the Web and send and receive e-mail.
Future versions of the software could serve as a launching place for Google communications: Open up the sidebar, click on a contact name, and you can e-mail, IM or call them.
Commercially available quantum chemistry software could calculate the frequency.
Updated software could help Apple complete its shift to PCs and notebooks running on Intel processors and bind the growing array of devices that now run on OS X together more tightly.
Demanding fewer bugs in government-bought software could reduce the vulnerabilities that have allowed hackers to breach agencies and companies without requiring any new monitoring or information sharing system that might affect privacy.
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The researchers said they doubted the recommendation software could get much more accurate than the 10% increase, though they expect that those 800 algorithms can be pared down to a more manageable set.
Several marketing companies have contacted him to learn whether his cellphone software could help them find out how people feel when they are, for instance, near advertising billboards or listening to commercial radio, he said.
In a later calculation, the Grid's software could then automatically detect whether a computation had to be started from scratch, or could take a short cut using a previous result stored somewhere in the system.
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Just as Wheeler's software could find all the crimes where the killer left behind a telltale clue, it could crack rings of fraud artists who change their names and hit a different insurance company every time.
Much in the way the phone system migrated from operators hand-switching every call to users dialing directly, Intentional Software could let a marketing executive create the code needed for a product campaign with just minimal mediation from a programmer.
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