The software subscription service, created by a start-up called Learningstation.com (LSC), of Charlotte, N.
Duncan said the strongest trends his company sees in these development initiatives are in the growth of service-oriented software architectures, subscription-based software sales and industry-specific standards in areas such as radio frequency tags and cellular telephony standards.
Last year, the company packaged its popular Creative Suite software into a subscription bundle.
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He is a cheerleader for the idea of delivering software as a subscription-based utility, like water or electricity an idea that many firms have tried, mostly without success.
Kurt DelBene, president of the Microsoft Office Division, said in an interview with Forbes that he thinks that within 10 years, the bulk of Office users will buy the software via a subscription, rather in the traditional shrink-wrapped format.
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While Microsoft might not best Apple at every point of audio ecosystem -- and the glaring lack of an iPod Touch or iPhone competitor makes much of this irrelevant for many people -- Apple's refusal to build a subscription service makes Zune Pass one of our few choices for a well-integrated player and subscription software combo.
ServiceSource sells software that manages maintenance, support and subscription renewals for hardware and software firms.
The subscription includes software for up to 5 devices, including Windows PCs and tablets and Macs.
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Requires an enabled chipset, BIOS, firmware, and software, and a subscription with a capable service provider.
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She says that as a small business with only five employees, paying a monthly subscription for software services that are properly upgraded is much more cost-effective than paying for and maintaining a new system.
DealerTrack also sells subscription-based software to help proprietors manage their dealership and its associated inventory.
In the brave era of cloud computing, software is sold on a subscription basis and delivered on-demand over the Web.
At the core of InterneTV is a powerful software application that aggregates both subscription-based and free content from hundreds of websites, making it easy and intuitive to search, access and view video content.
In the past three years Intuit has made a priority of replacing the no-growth packaged-software business with faster-growing online versions of its big hits and with subscription services such as online and mobile banking software.
One of the volunteers was Ali Amirnazmi, an Iranian-born Stanford-educated chemical engineer who had developed powerful software, which he sold by subscription, for strategic planning in the chemical manufacturing industries.
Software tools, sold on a subscription basis to developers looking to add more intelligence and functionality to a growing range of products, are an increasingly important part of its embedded-software business.
The poor post-IPO performance of the likes of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon has chilled market interest for some consumer internet companies, subsequently turning some investors toward more stable enterprise software companies, whose business-subscription models offer a more steady stream of revenue.
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The iGUGU InterneTV system consists of an innovative, compact handheld wireless remote control, wireless or cable-based options to connect the PC to the television, and an easy-to-use, powerful, software application that aggregates free and subscription-based content on the Internet, giving users the ability to search, catalog and play more content than any other solution on the market.
In addition, their workforce management systems are available through either site licenses of their software or through a cloud-based subscription service.
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Another difference is that unlike the DVD version of the Creative Suite, a Creative Cloud subscription allows you to install your software on two different platforms, so if you run both the Windows and OS X versions simultaneously.
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Most people tend to renew their subscription on line rather than buying new software, and that makes Kaspersky rank around No. 4 in the worldwide IT security space.
That could hurt Microsoft as many companies refashion themselves for the era of "cloud" computing, a Google-backed approach in which software is easily accessed online and sold as a subscription product, rather than installed on companies' computers.
If we understand Narayen right, he seems to be implying that Australian customers are being charged a high price for traditional boxed software in order to nudge them towards Adobe's subscription-based cloud service instead.
In June, the company announced it was buying a small software company, GeCAD Software, with the aim of selling virus protection as a subscription service.
If they want support services or advanced features that help the software fit into the modern IT environment, they must purchase a subscription.
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Besides open source, Eazel is thus also riding the other big trend that is changing the computer industry: software will increasingly be delivered as an online service and on a subscription basis.
These people also said the download store would be an "interim" step toward what is expected to be a more ambitious cloud-based subscription service compatible with mobile phones built with Google's Android software.
With an online subscription, you keep paying Microsoft to use the latest version of the software, rather than pay the company once for software that gets outdated over time.
Instead, the software company took care of all this in the Cloud and for a modest annual subscription fee that was less than my TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of managing the application in the district data center.
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