In a report from IDC last month, the analyst firm described how hundreds of tests on pirate software sources showed that more than a third led to Trojans and malicious adware.
Unlocking a phone is distinct from a practice known as "jail-breaking" that opens up a phone so software from unofficial sources can be run on it.
Such Web candies are three among thousands of examples of "mashups, " which blend software from multiple sources and recombine them on the fly to create novel entertainments and services.
Global Sources stores the software applications on its own computer servers, which users access on an as-needed basis through the Internet.
Games tend to be the number one downloaded and used software application for these devices, according to sources like Nielsen, Forrester and Screen Digest.
Arista also offers network monitoring software, LANZ, which watches networks and tracks sources of congestion in real-time.
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Bing has been slowly increasing its share of American searches and is working with Facebook on integrating social-networking data into its results in a bid to improve them. (This is another reason why Google wants its own source of social data.) People are also being offered more and more digital information via other sources, including specialised search engines and software applications on smartphones.
It develops software that can extract useful information from "unstructured" sources such as phone-calls, emails or video.
Social media is added to other online sources for news and financial information so the software can automatically recognize important events.
For teens, he says, such software inspires resentment and only leads to kids looking for other sources of Internet access, like a friend's computer.
Management maintains majority control of the software business, while Cressey and SV Life own a minority stake, sources note.
This new mission is SnapLogic, a commercial software company that provides data and application integration tools for connecting Cloud data sources.
In San Francisco, TalentBin has been focusing chiefly on software coders, pulling user data both from heavily trafficked sites and also from niche sources such as BitBucket and RubyGems.
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Using its HARK software system, HEARBO can distinguish between and locate the position of up to four unique sound sources simultaneously to within one degree of accuracy.
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"There are so many small businesses in Asia that are professional in dealing with buyers but can't afford the software necessary to link up with the networks of large buyers overseas, " says Douwe Cramer, president of Global Sources' e-commerce division.
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