The band makes its music with a looping software program, created by guitarist and keyboardist Brent Knopf while in college, called Deeler, short for Digital Loop Recorder.
Finally, TravRoute has created a voice-enabled software program that works with a Global Positioning System to allow hands-free, eyes-free directional information in a car.
Since I last tested Ancestry in 2006, the company has revamped its desktop software program, Family Tree Maker, so the program can synchronize with Web-based data on Ancestry.com.
Apple could have an extensive software security program in place, with advanced training and development methodologies.
Dow Chemical hired RWD to revamp its training program for use with the SAP software it had purchased.
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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Merkulov said the program, which was built with proprietary software from the ground-up, comes with a number of improved technologies that allow IT administrators to see, configure and protect their various networks, including on handheld devices.
Books lend themselves particularly well to an Internet-selling tool known as "collaborative filtering": Amazon and other Web vendors ask you to name some of your favorite products -- in Amazon's case, the books, authors, or genres you like best -- and then the retailers' software program tells you what other people with similar tastes liked so you can add to your shopping list.
It can do this because it is a bot, or software robot, a program that can interact with people.
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.
Examples of assembly language software you may be familiar with are IBM PC DOS and the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3.
Card.io is offering a software developers kit in a beta program and is already working with MogoTix which sells tickets to events.
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The programs sift through old and new documents and e-mail far more efficiently than the search software that comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows and the Outlook e-mail program.
This program begins with MDM and VPN solutions providers using Samsung's software development kit to deeply integrate their solution on the SAFE device.
Today, it's announced it's working with popular music-mixing software Virtual DJ to provide tighter integration between the device and the program.
The company is currently taking the product one step further, piloting a referral program with AOL and Intel where company employees opt-in to give the software access to their Facebook friends.
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Instead, they choose to shroud the whole process in mystery even with such high-profile partners as Microsoft, which has offered up its Bing Maps software for the program.
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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.
"Although the conditions to be checked may change over time, current experience suggests that such health checks should ensure that software patches are applied, a firewall is installed and configured correctly, an antivirus program with current signatures is running, and the machine is not currently infected with known malware, " he wrote in the accompanying paper.
Many feel that patching tools, a regular and fully automated backup program, and a strong recovery toolset are more effective in dealing with the risk than antivirus software.
That makes it especially insidious, as users can infect their computer with software that gives hackers remote access to their desktops without downloading an e-mail attachment or running a program.
Whether it was trying to reduce the number of steps to cut the lawn as a child, reduce the time it took a computer program to run as a software developer, or today, trying to get more done with less energy.
Two software firms called Red Hat and Caldera, for example, offer tested versions of the program along with installation support.
Sendmail is selling a commercial version of the software with a special graphical interface, but it is also supporting the development of a free version of the program.
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