You know the story, but I'm not going to tell you it's happening again in the smartphone market between the iPhone software and Google's Android software.
Even in a recession, IT managers have to buy and maintain security and compliance software, and IT management software like IBM's Tivoli suite could be seen as replacing more expensive hardware alternatives.
Rawn Shah is a business transformation consultant in the Social Software Adoption team in IBM's software group and is the author of Social Networking for Business: Choosing the Right Tools and Resources to Fit Your Needs, newly published by Wharton School Publishing.
The switchover replaced the software that was required for the rover's landing with software that enhances Curiosity's capability to drive and use the instruments on its robotic arm.
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The software bundle includes HP's TopTools manageability software, which handles chores from remote configuration to asset tracking.
Its Tivoli suite (for managing and securing data centers and facilities) and other software products compete directly with HP's software offerings.
Export of software from the U.S., including software that deploys encryption functions, is controlled by the Bureau of Industry and Security ( BIS) in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations ( EAR).
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Hogan, the former chief of dot-com software firm Vignette, took over HP's software unit in 2006 and quickly launched a turnaround.
This allows the log to be read by a laptop computer and displayed as a journey on Google Earth, the software giant's popular world-mapping software.
In addition to that, Google is also said to be considering a move that would side-step the carriers and focus more heavily on in-store terminals -- something Bloomberg says could involve additional hardware and software in stores that would work in conjunction with software on Google's own servers.
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Another country with a national pavilion, India, has good reason to promote itself in the U.S.: up to 65 percent of India's software exports land in the U.S., and India is the U.S.'s biggest software trade partner.
Imagic Software in Solvang, California sells software that analyzes a user's typing habits to build a biometric profile.
Partly because your fresh-from-the-box second-gen Zune is disabled from playing any of its pre-bundled content until it's activated with this software, but mostly because there's not another piece of media playing software out there that anywhere near resembles the new Zune 2.0 desktop app.
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Gilder generally avoids software, but I've always regarded Inktomi's software search engine as the beating pulse of the Net.
The software in question is based on IBM's Federal Systems Software, but has been developed by NATS, Wright said.
Mr. Cook also hinted that Apple's iOS software powering its iPhone and iPad, and the separate operating software for its Mac computers, are set for a major upgrade, to be discussed at Apple's software-developer conference in June.
The kiosk-based approach means that compared with other software retailers, SoftWide's shops sell an entirely different range of software to an entirely different type of customer.
While both Opteron and Itanium ran newer 64-bit software, AMD's chip was also backward-compatible, enabling it to run software written for older 32-bit processors.
Sterling will reside in the software group under WebSphere, IBM's on-demand business software.
The new software is powering sales of Apple laptop and desktop computers ahead, thanks in part to software giant Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) troubles with Vista, the latest version of the ubiquitous Windows operating system.
SCO, a tiny software firm in Utah, and Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, have only one thing in common.
For now, Microsoft can hide behind the software industry's shirk-wrap license policy, which disclaims all liability for software errors.
India's booming software industry, which is increasingly doing work for U.S. companies, could surpass the United States in software and tech service jobs by 2010, he said.
He noted that more than 100 million mobile device users had upgraded to the new iOS software, replacing a Google-powered maps app with Apple's own software which relies on licensed navigation data.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
That quality also made it easy for Apple to bump the software over to Intel's processors last year--setting the stage for Apple to offer software allowing users to run both Windows and its own operating system on their machines.
The iPhone's current fifth-generation software is much easier to install than PC software -- in fact, InfoGear says, there's no real installation.
Ironically, whereas stills are handled with little noise reduction by the Arc's software, there's clearly a very aggressive noise suppression algorithms at work when it comes to video.
It's software, it's infrastructures, platforms all sold as a service.
ESRI's software's key strength is the "club sandwich effect" by which customers handle advanced spatial analysis with up to dozens of layers of data from economic, demographic and environmental databases.
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