Over the same period, overall Blu-ray hardware sales (no word on if this includes the PlayStation 3 or not) were down 27 percent and software sales down 5 percent.
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PCs revenue was down 8%, printing fell 5%, enterprise services were off 7% and software was down 2%.
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Hardware sales were down 37% and software sales were down 25%, while accessory sales rose 5%.
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Ultimately this bag of tools may hone a software package down to its minimum number of steps.
In terms of software, the PlayStation 3 saw 156.6 million units sold worldwide, up from 147.9 million in the previous year, while 7.9 million PlayStation 2 software units were sold, down from 16.4 million year-over-year, and 32.2 million PSP software units sold, down from 46.6 million year-over-year.
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Combining the ecofont along with inkgard software will cut down your visits to the office supply store significantly.
There's a slick guide to help you navigate but, most importantly, the slimmed down software sports DVR functionality.
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Software revenue was down 1 percent, up 3 percent adjusting for currency.
The tax authorities are going to use improved surveillance software to track down people trading on marketplace websites but failing to pay tax.
It laid off consultants in its main business, shut a unit that produced customised software and closed down another that provided consulting to start-ups.
For the other platforms, trying to get a handset to the latest version of the software is all down to the whim of each network.
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Including PC games, software sales were down 11%.
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If there is a real threat on the network, Nwokobia and his team can fix it remotely using the software, shutting down rogue access points or boosting the power of their own antennas to jam signals coming from the outside.
And while Google Docs online spreadsheet and word processing software is stripped down (when compared with Office), it does make it easier for workers to share a single online document and collaborate on it with colleagues--something that gets complicated fast when multiple copies of a Microsoft Word document are blasting around the office.
Nokia has two phones on the market with stripped-down BlackBerry software and two in the works.
But important drivers of services, such as new installations of enterprise resource planning software, are slowing down sharply.
Hardware and software prices have come down in the past decade, making them more affordable to small firms.
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His reluctance faded amid Oracle's faltering in-house efforts and his own view that the software industry was slowing down and might never reaccelerate.
"Enterprise software sales have gone down because the products are just too hard to implement, " he says, "information technology departments shouldn't increase their spending" from current levels.
At least for now, this is the only method of procuring the software (should cut down on support issues, we hear), but it's not like you can't handle that.
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The collaboration, which began in 2006 and resulted in two premium mobile phones being introduced in 2007 and 2008, focuses on key elements within the smartphone, including software and user interface down to its design and packaging.
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The software's Unix core makes it easy for Apple to cram stripped down versions of the software onto mobile phones and home entertainment gadgets, such as Apple TV.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
It suggests sales of hardware and software sold by retailers were down 11% on the year in November.
Apple keeps raising the standard of their software and driving the software prices on their platform down, leading by example.
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And top-down implementations of software can often be ignored, Borg says.
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Intentional Software's offices look down on Simonyi's first office at Microsoft.
And Google's online presentation software is even more stripped down.
The PalmPilot runs on top of Palm OS, an extremely user-friendly, stripped-down bit of software that is just about perfect for an electronic organizer, although it would struggle to master anything much more complicated.
But as valuations of Internet, software and hardware companies come down to earth, and medical device and drug companies continue to steadily get bought or go public, more health care investors are clawing their way onto the list.
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