But if the cybersecurity industry has made a convincing case that consumers need to protect their PCs with software and safety rules, are the rest of your gadgets quite so prone to peril?
Public Safety, a software developer in Winter Park, Florida, sells handhelds to police and airport security teams to perform instant background checks.
With the aid of visual and aural warnings, these safety enhancements use software, cockpit displays and related devices already installed on aircraft to alert pilots about potential mistakes.
With Surface Pro, customers can do virtually everything they have ever done on a PC, ranging from using their favorite desktop applications to enjoying the protection of world-class safety and security software.
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If bootlegging acts as a safety valve to keep software prices sensible, might that not be such a bad thing after all?
But apart from safety, the new traceability software should also allow packers and shippers to combine their tracking functions with marketing exercises.
Mobile anti-virus software is a great way to ensure the safety of your smartphone, especially now, when iPhones, Androids and BlackBerrys are used for much more than just making calls.
When a 9-1-1 call is received reporting someone unconscious, unresponsive and likely needing CPR, the local communications center will dispatch public safety resources as they do today, but software running in the center will also send this alert to nearby citizen rescuers.
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Sensible Machines, headquartered in Pittsburgh, makes hardware and software that turn machines into autonomous workhorses with their own sense of positioning, safety and situational awareness.
Today, after leaving the public safety profession for the adrenaline rush of technology startups, I run a software company.
Clear Standards' carbon emissions compliance and management software is now part of a larger package of SAP's environment, health and safety management applications available to clients in America and overseas.
Under a new FDA new proposal, they would be reclassified to a midrisk category, and companies would be required to prove to the FDA that their software is up to date, their sunlamps emit the right amount of energy and all safety control measures are in place.
Trigger control software could be relaxed when the gun is at home or in a car, while other safety features stay on to prevent accidental discharges.
Sustainability software can provide alerts if plans are made to purchase prohibited raw material, help report on safety related or environmental incidents, as well as plan optimal responses to those incidents.
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