General Dynamics has an advantage in the competition because it led the one part of the original joint program that actually delivered on the promise of software-defined radios.
And it liberates firms from the program-release schedules of software suppliers, which are often inconvenient and late.
The guts of the program is so-called optimization software that compares the bills on a monthly basis with some 13, 000 cellular rate-plan combinations available across the U.S., to make sure the client is paying the lowest amount possible.
The answer is, of course, in a world where there are alternatives to almost every software program, less than the number of copies which were stolen.
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After nearly three years of experimental work, the team -- especially postdoctoral associate Andreas Velten and MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, many students, and several collaborators -- cobbled together pieces of the puzzle and built a software program to create a first demonstration of looking around corners.
And because of the program's complexity, even the best produce their share of bug-ridden software.
Google has a long history of supporting the development of free software through its Summer of Code program.
The Department argued that the security of its software program would be jeopardized to generate false letters or forms that, if sent to taxpayers, would allow them to disclose confidential information.
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Later on, Microsoft aided these "home-brew" efforts with the release of a software development kit and a program that allowed the Kinect to be controlled via Windows.
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The company has been very public about its software security program, to the point of publishing its threat modeling process and tools and exporting the program to its partners and other third parties.
Mr Strachey, along with Alan Turing, was one of the first to write software for the Manchester Mark I - one of the first stored-program computers.
Analysys Mason's forecast, created as part of the Enterprise program, covers software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service.
The likeliest scenario is that she was hired to put together a software security program and stop the flood of bad PR.
An innovative proposal has been offered by Dr. Morris Davis, the inventor of a program known as Transition Software that has demonstrated impressive capabilities to accomplish such corrective action on mainframe computers in a fraction of the time -- and at far less cost -- than is currently associated with human review of each line of code.
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The end result is a software program that uses a series of complex algorithms for filtering and aligning all the pieces of the transcriptome puzzle.
The result is that the execution of a particular program accelerates as the microprocessor tunes itself to run the software as efficiently as possible something that would be a nightmare to do in hardware alone.
Wendler is acutely aware of the problems a software program like this might pose for the community at large.
One of the latest, called Aimster, is aimed at users of a software program that is already hugely popular.
The spy program is a sophisticated rootkit designed to steal data from SCADA networks, the type of software that control energy utilities, transportation, and other vital systems.
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Using a software program to compare the sequences of the genes that give the instructions for making egg proteins, they show that teleosts with floating eggs share a gene called VtgAa.
Compaq Computer, meanwhile, will announce it is forming the Linux Program Center, a unit within the company dedicated to offering a range of different hardware, software, and service offerings, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.
Under the new program, the industry will monitor "peer-to-peer" software services for evidence of copyrighted files being shared.
The backdoor could take the form of an installed program or subvert the system through what is known as a rootkit, a malicious software hard to detect.
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AppLink is the free software program that gives SYNC users voice control of apps stored on their smartphone.
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Worse yet for BrassRing, PeopleSoft, the king of human resources software, has developed a program that competes with BrassRing and in one year has scooped up more than 400 customers.
The ED-7270 (dubbed U-ROBO), touts a sophisticated similarity to the pioneering R2-D2, and can complete a myriad of in-home chores by using the included software to program its pathways, actions, and movements.
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Worse, looking at any manageable chunk wouldn't let a programmer trying to adjust the software know very much about the overall design intention of the program--what it's meant to do.
The result is that a single software program could potentially implicate thousands, or even tens of thousands, of patents.
The success of IBM's ISV program has been contingent, in part, on its software partners meeting quotas that call for a certain percentage of applications to be deployed on IBM hardware and software.
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