Almost 500 jobs are to be created in east Belfast over the next five years by a computer software company.

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Not content to raise the pressure on Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway in the computer market, Apple also tweaked software company Microsoft, rolling out new editions of its iLife and iWork desktop software packages.

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After his return, he got a business degree from the University of Baltimore, and in 1984 started a software company in his basement, writing the computer programs himself.

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One computer program company said it would give the software to the government for free.

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While known for its Norton suite of computer utilities and anti-virus software, the company has been expanding its offerings of Internet security software for 2001.

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To entertainment-company executives, who had watched the computer-software companies' market capitalisations outstrip theirs many times over, this was a seductive message.

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Computer Associates, a business software solutions company, have supplied all the technical equipment necessary to the forces taking part including computers and scanners.

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Aaron Taylor's company, Gogamingo, develops specialist software for the fast-growing and lucrative computer gaming industry.

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Winning the war for Microsoft would mean having to use a piece of the company's software in almost anything one did with respect to using a computer.

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Mountain View's Locke suggests that the server location be taken out of the equation by basing the point of sale on where the company's headquarters are located, and Hennepin County's Johnson pointed out that software and computer-generated music transactions may prove to be undetectable and therefore untaxable.

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