So while hardware is still critical, the software on top of it is also critical.
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The real carrot is the managed services and software on top of a Cloud platform and application layer.
That said, HTC seems to be off to a decent start in terms of developing software on top of Android 2.2.
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Developers can snap these together and write and share software on top.
The people who gather in them are often from the top software companies in the world.
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Ericcson could become the aggregator of Internet of things data and build software experiences on top of this.
Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, is known as India's information-technology hub as many top software companies have their headquarters or offices in the city.
Clothing sales made the biggest breakthrough last year, with apparel and accessories displacing computer hardware and software as the top non-travel category in online retail.
Today, top software companies often sponsor 'hackathons, ' weekends of intense work and little sleep, to get free outside programming help to solve problems or advance products.
He set up Softbank in 1981, became a pal of Microsoft's Bill Gates in the mid-1980s and has since built his company into Japan's top software distributor.
Besides video, he made delivering software applications a top priority.
The different contexts for data usage keep it in more frequent use, which is why Micron and Samsung Semiconductor are working hard in Flash Storage, or why EMC puts so much effort into analysis software built on top of storage.
Next up, according to Soni, will be the applications and database software that run on top of Linux.
The history of hardware companies that stayed on top through software is short.
If anything, the spying operation shows only how bitter the rivalry has become between the top two software firms.
Day job at VA Linux Systems, a top Linux software firm that rose a record 700% the day it went public in December.
Nobody cares about Microsoft at 10 times earnings, facing disappointing personal computer shipments this year, a leading indicator for desk top computing software.
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Set-top box software may hold the biggest opportunity for Microsoft.
Among other things, the company makes set-top box software.
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After using the Ancestry app on my iPad and adding records to my family tree, I easily synced that data with my desktop software by clicking a top-right button when I next opened the Family Tree Maker.
In the future, Microsoft could also license Kinect software to TVs and cable set-top box makers just like Google embeds its Android software in TVs to come out with Google TV.
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The software giant has reached the top by its own hard work and wits.
Though as a former top executive at software giant SAP, Agassi was not exactly a typical startup guy.
She has chosen an unusual route to the top of the software industry.
Still, Microsoft and Sony think they can go it alone and establish the standard software platform that set-top boxes run on.
And as Huberman contends, the key to the NAS market is in the software that you layer on top of the hardware.
Virgin Media in the U.K. is using TiVo's set-top box and software as the cornerstone of its advanced TV rollout to its 4 million subscribers.
While working for Oracle, he preached to mainland companies that they could achieve great breakthroughs in the still-state-led economy by embracing top-notch software and modern management.
Media center software, a streaming set top box and a TV-tuning USB dongle -- Boxee already has a pretty decent amount on its plate.
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