That has hindered Nokia's own software efforts, including its Ovi Store, which competes with Apple's App Store.
Alongside the arms race of increasingly elaborate modelling software, there are also efforts to develop software that can assist in negotiation and mediation.
It was also on an acquisition spree in the last quarter, acquiring four companies to further its lead in creative software, and aid its efforts to rule the digital marketing and advertising space.
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As you would expect, we drink our own champagne and use our software to measure and drive our efforts.
Ahead of the launch workers at Bletchley Park - the site of Britain's World War II codebreaking efforts - trialled the software to help promote the roll-out.
Although the focus on our services efforts impacted some local software and hardware modifications that were required to be competitive, our product platform and architecture are consistently recognized by the industry as being best-in-class.
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Microsoft is a software company focused on packaged software and not good at advertising funded efforts, yet seems to be putting massive funds (including the attempted purchase of Yahoo) into that segment.
Indeed, its reluctance to open up its software secrets to others has been a stumbling block in the continuing efforts to settle an antitrust action brought by the American government against the firm for abusing its PC software monopoly.
Later on, Microsoft aided these "home-brew" efforts with the release of a software development kit and a program that allowed the Kinect to be controlled via Windows.
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The major CRM software vendors could then re-direct their efforts from building their own inferior Social CRM functionality inside of older architecture and instead apply their resources to updating and expanding their applications so that they can be used to capture all that social media data.
Schichtel's customers installed their own malicious software on the PCs to aid their own cybercrime efforts.
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.
The software giant pledged to fix the update but its efforts became more urgent when security firm EEye Digital Security discovered that the crash circumstances could be exploited to run malicious code on that machine.
This interface will help streamline product development efforts, spur application development among third-party software developers, and deliver greater flexibility to device manufacturers.
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From the beginning of Microsoft's mobile efforts in the PDA era, its touchscreen phone software has had a Start button and windows that could be minimized like the classic Windows desktop.
The law came about in part due to the efforts of William Aho and his tiny Salt Lake City software company called ClearPlay .
After several entrepreneurial efforts, Pipkin, who knew little about hardware or software, started Belkin in 1983 in a two car garage in Southern California with the goal of riding the PC craze.
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Putting out an open-source collection of software would allow all three to integrate Google's services into its efforts.
The companies trying to build businesses around the Linux operating system are also stepping up efforts, called United Linux, to create standard editions of the software and to ensure skills are transferable across its different varieties.
Microsoft's efforts today come a decade after Bill Gates pioneered in India with a software development center.
By contrast, Microsoft has to put its software on a far vaster array of machines, and therefore has to coordinate the efforts of a much bigger team of programmers, says Directions on Microsoft's DeMichillie.
The software allowed customers to schedule appointments online and dealers to tailor special promotions and track which efforts worked best.
There are ongoing efforts by cognitive science laboratories and companies to develop cognitive assessment and brain training software that will function on mobile phones and tablets.
It took the advent of software piracy and the birth of "intellectual property crime" to add a fillip to international efforts against counterfeiting.
Due to a weak macroeconomic environment, a slowing PC market and restructuring efforts, the company expects a marginal decline in revenue across all divisions except the software division.
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His efforts to turn state capital Hyderabad into another Silicon Valley have attracted the attention of several global software companies, including Microsoft.
They combine that with search engine optimization (SEO) software like that from SEOMoz, and typically hire an outside firm to manage their SEO and social marketing efforts.
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Despite diversification efforts, the company is still 70%-75% tied to PCs, including peripherals, software and services.
The vagaries of hardware, software and natural language will always ensure that exact reproducibility remains uncertain, but withholding code increases the chances that efforts to reproduce results will fail.
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In many cases, EU-funded projects are duplications of other projects or efforts to re-invent the wheal-the writing of books and manuals and the development of software that can be purchased for a few hundred dollars in the marketplace.
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