The people who gather in them are often from the top software companies in the world.
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Now, for the first time, Allen is competing directly with Gates for the same business: set-top-box software that lets cable companies offer digital video recording, video on demand and, eventually, shopping.
But there is an increasing opportunity to cash in on top of browser software, which has become the lever that controls much of what you see of the Web and how you see it.
Virgin Media ( VMED - news - people ) 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.
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.
As recently as a year ago, the Palm operating system was still on top of the mobile software market.
The system according to their technical person is based on a sweeping laser unit place at the top, and interaction software.
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.
By the mid-1980s Softbank was Japan's top distributor of PC software (and still has 70% of the market) and published a dozen computer magazines created to educate consumers and hype Softbank products.
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He told a packed room that Microsoft is working hard on several fronts so it can become a "three- or four-trick pony, " holding onto the top spot in business software, but also becoming a force in search, advertising and entertainment.
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