No word yet on whether the independent Web software makers will develop for copiers.
P2P software makers are not liable, because the product is capable of legal uses.
Software makers like the status quo because they profit so handsomely from it.
The cloud computing market is under siege by most major enterprise software makers including SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
Android proves that OEMs should NOT be software makers (as Android on most handsets is a BIG giant mess).
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But Aberdeen analyst Katherine Jones says BrassRing no longer stands out among the 150 small software makers in this speciality.
That means it needs a lot of partners: handset makers, software makers, application makers, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Since then, other business-software makers have been rushing to offer similar services.
Apple and Microsoft have proven that Software makers can make incredible hardware.
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Google's inability to find the right formula for TV software, like it did for smartphones with Android, leaves a major opportunity for software makers.
E-mail services, ISPs, registrars, search engines and software makers are also vulnerable to attacks and sometimes reluctant to cooperate in the fight against cybercrime.
Hardware and software makers pushed ever shorter product cycles and provided ever more power for the same or lower price, flooding customers with capacity.
Its loan portfolio includes, among other things, investments in high-end kitchenware maker Sur La Table, a crane rental company, restaurant groups and software makers.
Oracle is one of the largest enterprise software makers which competes with SAP, Microsoft in the enterprise market and CRM in the CRM market.
Gaming isn't much a part of CES culture because console and game software makers generally save big announcements for the annual Los Angeles, California, convention called E3.
Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise software makers worldwide.
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Those documents were a long time coming, but they have now forced Microsoft to show other software makers how their programs can work with its ubiquitous Windows operating system.
Oracle has been a major player in the traditional on-premise enterprise software market, but with the rise of cloud computing, most major enterprise software makers have been launching cloud based versions of their offerings.
The store could also stoke more interest in developing software for Mac computers, which have not been as attractive a target for independent software makers as the bigger market of PCs that run Microsoft Corp.
The deal underpins the importance that slow-growing technology giants place on faster-growing, web-based software makers, whose products are less vulnerable to the economic downturn as there are no upfront costs for program licenses, dedicated hardware or installation.
The main knock against H.264 is that the ideas behind it are patented, so any software makers who want to encode or decode H.264 video have to pay into a licensing pool called MPEG LA once their audiences reaches a certain size.
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Software makers get all wrapped up in sexy new features and functions and hundreds of ways of doing the exact same thing that they seem to forget the most fundamental use of their products: most business software applications are systems built around databases.
Some of the world's biggest companies suffered huge falls this week, with Dell Computers down 28% for the week, leading computer chip maker Intel down 20%, and leading software makers Sun Microsystems and Oracle all dropping by more than 15% - losing billions of dollars in value.
Yet a question remains over Microsoft's promise to give rival software-makers some cost-free, additional access to its software protocols.
Through its partnership with Absolute Software, makers of LoJack for Laptops, Samsung will soon embed a theft recovery system right into the the phone's firmware.
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Exa makes simulation software that vehicle makers use to design and develop cars, trucks and trains.
For instance, requiring encryption software and hardware makers to hold a decoding key in "key escrow" is the equivalent of asking a bank to hold an extra set of safe-deposit-box keys.
In other words, there would appear to be an opening here for Microsoft to gain some traction with its Windows Phone software with handset makers who fear that competing with Motorola in the Android phone market will no longer be a fair fight.
And I really do think there could be an opening for Windows Phone 8, particularly if Microsoft can sow seeds of doubt with the Android OEMs about the conflicts Google has in both supplying software to handset makers and competing with them at the same time.
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Perhaps, but the risk can be reduced by open-sourcing code, requiring software patch downloads, and notifying gun makers or law enforcement if software is disabled.
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