You know how people have been telling TiVo how the only way they're going to survive would be to convince some a cable company to license their digital video recorder software for use on set-top boxes?
Datamark, a start-up in London, has begun offering a more big-brotherish approach with software designed for use by picture libraries.
For example, there are some companies buying licenses of Predictive Coding software for unlimited use and applying it to all matters.
Microsoft now offers a cheap version of its Windows Server software specifically for use on web servers, to compete better with Linux.
ClearPlay has discussed licensing its software for classroom use, he says.
The independent WebM project was started to create video production and playback software specifically designed for use online.
Google struck the first blow in Oct. 2009 with the release of free, turn-by-turn navigation software for phones that use its mobile platform, Android.
Yammer has a free version of its software for anyone to use, then a pay version with more features that an IT department might want.
But now, GreenPrint is offering a free version of the software for non-business use, supported by advertising.
SaveMe backup software is also available for use with one's own hard drive.
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It offers outsourcing services to clients interested in developing credit scoring systems as well as selling software for a client to use in-house.
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Research In Motion could license the QNX software it plans to use for all of its high-end phones.
The company has donated its product to ten universities for use in software-building courses.
While some analysts see the Sun suite as being directed more towards home users, Grabau believes the software is also suitable for business use.
Ever since Googlereleased easy-to-use software tools for its nifty on-screen maps of streets and satellite images a year ago, fans have set off an explosion of creative overlaps, adding their own useful and sometimes quirky data.
It also called for the creation of kitemarked filtering software that is installed on all new PCs sold for use in the home and which is given away with all new net contracts.
And that, in itself, would be a very valuable use for the software and service.
It will use software written just for the purpose to ease the transfer of e-mail addresses, datebook appointments and stored messages.
The pictures can be exported into the standard JPEG format for use in other software, but then they lose their ability to be refocused.
The analysts don't use facial recognition software for large crowd footage.
After university she worked for four years at a computer company in Nottingham training people to use software, which was a good grounding for standing and talking in front of a camera.
Blinkx got a head start by licensing Autonomy's software, which was designed primarily for use within large companies. (Autonomy has a 10% stake in Blinkx.) Chandratillake started with a dozen programmers to refine the software to better locate and categorize video for the average viewer.
When the farmers were unable to figure out how to use the software, many of them ended up paying for classes that taught them how to use it.
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Samsung is the single-biggest maker of Android smartphones and will continue to use Google's software for its phones.
Dow Chemical hired RWD to revamp its training program for use with the SAP software it had purchased.
If you switch machines, you may have to convince the company to let you use the software you paid for.
SAP's TomorrowNow offers third-party support for businesses that use PeopleSoft software.
James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.
At its basics, cloud computing represents the ability for software developers to cheaply and easily use the resources of masses of servers sitting somewhere in a data center (essentially supercomputers) to do something interesting or useful.
Just weeks after launching the site, friends asked to use the software to coordinate payments for a party bus.
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