Currently, some doctors may use existing computer software to estimate how much additional radiation is required based on factors such as weight, height and age of the patient.

WSJ: Scientists Find Safer Ways to Test Medical Procedures

Once again, we used the Worldscope fundamental and Thomson First Call earnings estimate databases and software from FactSet Research Systems to help us find foreign stocks.

FORBES: Foreign Value Stocks' Big Payoff

Cloud-based CRM software constitutes around 63% of our estimate for Salesforce.com stock, and its market share in the CRM market has rapidly increased from around 7% in 2006 to 14% in 2010, and we estimate that it could continue to increase to around 25% by the end of Trefis forecast period.

FORBES: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Rains On Salesforce.com Parade

Following PeopleSoft's warning, Morgan Stanley cut its earnings estimate for the provider of enterprise application software to 13 cents per share from 20 cents.

FORBES: Eye On Stocks For Tuesday, July 27

We believe that if Oracle could leverage its high end servers to grow its software business, it could create upside to our estimate for Oracle stock.

FORBES: Oracle Can Milk Exadata Servers And Software For Spurt Above $40

The two versions of Google Maps and the Apple software pretty much gave me the same directions and time estimate just over 10 hours, though we were planning on 12 with stops.

WSJ: Review: iPhone Google Maps lags Android version

Cloud based customer software is the biggest division of Salesforce.com and constitutes nearly 55% of our current price estimate.

FORBES: Salesforce Takes On Dropbox With Cloud Storage And File Sharing Services

Enterprise software, including database, application, and middleware offerings account for more than 75% of its Trefis price estimate.

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