On a different note, a crowdsourcing service provider such as TopCoder can avoid spammer requestors more readily because of the focus of their service on software development.

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Greg Bildson, chief operating officer, LimeWire, a startup online music service dedicated to Gnutella software development.

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The project was developed by Dr Robert Robi Zimmer, a consultant anaesthetist at the hospital's orthopaedic service, and a software development consultant.

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So said Mohammed Shahabuddin, manager of business development for the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), an Indian software industry body.

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YoYo Games currently has 25 employees but is planning to create an additional 25 new positions, mainly in systems development, software engineering, sales and customer service.

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Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.

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Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.

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