noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a software program
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a software program that aids in website design
a software/catering/construction etc business
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His girlfriend runs a catering business.
a software/program designer (= for computer programs )
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Software designers are working on a new operating system.
anti-virus software
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You need to update your anti-virus software regularly.
application software
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We need to ensure that the application software on both the PC and the Macintosh produces compatible files.
computer software (= computer programs )
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Microsoft Corp is the world’s largest maker of personal computer software.
counterfeit goods/software etc
database system/software/application etc
mechanical/electrical/software etc engineer
pirate videos/CDs/software etc
software/a program runs on a computer
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You’ll need the appropriate software running on your computer.
software/word-processing/graphics etc package
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
independent
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It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version.
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The enticement to independent software vendors is the range of stable Sparc systems from laptops to supercomputers coming to market.
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Another 7 percent is contracted with independent software house, and computer makers provide the remaining 6 percent.
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If demand for its Microsoft based Intel Corp desktops encourage independent software vendors sufficiently development of a MicroSparc-based desktop will be considered.
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Some independent software vendors have gone further.
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The group also plans to launch an independent software developers programme in 1993.
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He believes such an outcome would only tick off independent software companies.
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Some have to be dealt with using adhoc, independent software vendor solutions at present, such as application development environments and distributed databases.
internet
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You just have to get familiar with your Internet software , which in most cases isn't too difficult.
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Firewalls often make it difficult to use Internet audio software , such as the RealAudio player from Progressive Networks.
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Taking a page from the Netscape playbook, Microsoft is giving away key pieces of Internet software .
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Farallon, based in Alameda, develops Internet connectivity software .
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But it charges lots of money for its Internet server software .
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The facilities for e-mail, file transfers and newsgroup messages are the equal of most Internet software packages on the market.
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But the biggest changes lie ahead, say Internet analysts, software makers and other observers.
large
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People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks.
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Toasters that bomb? Large software programs are about the most complex things humans can make right now.
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Of the larger software companies, the WordPerfect Corporation was most prominent.
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With a turnover of 8000 million yen, the latter is the largest software house in the country.
new
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But the company believes that it has some products it can sell new , notably software for diagnosing faults in computers.
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Soon preschoolers will get their shot using new peripherals and software developed jointly by Compaq Computer Corp. and Fisher-Price.
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The new financial management software is more powerful and flexible and is capable of providing a wide range of management information.
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Do you need new applications software for your Windows 95 bundle?
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Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable.
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Not all users will be able to take advantage of the new software , however.
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Demands for faster processors with larger memory to run newer applications software are increasing.
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This new software also lets you post documents to the World Wide Web.
personal
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Leading high-technology corporations say they are actively recruiting otaku types because they are in the vanguard of personal computing and software design.
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Mr Frankenberg became chief executive of Novell Inc., the second-largest personal-computer software company, 20 months ago.
■ NOUN
application
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Do you need new applications software for your Windows 95 bundle?
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It is challenging for the same leadership in applications software .
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This in turn would boost sales of system and application software that would provide the services need to work with these computers.
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The London computer and the Hong Kong computer each hold and run a copy of the SunAccount application software .
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The manufacturers also assist in developing applications software for specific jobs.
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Advanced expert systems provide for the integration with conventional applications software .
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And much of the software produced is applications software which is sold as a package with the machines.
company
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One of the keys to the success of software companies in Northern Ireland is the large local pool of talented labour.
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Martin says the statute would also make sure software companies put the correct computer-system requirements for its products on the software box.
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The Cupertino software company also closed a small software-development facility in Bedford, Mass.
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As a result, very few software companies developed Windows spreadsheets and the field was left clear for Microsoft's Excel.
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FileNet plans to buy Saros, another document management software company , for 2. 22 million shares.
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Geoff, who now runs a successful computer software company , is meticulous about the detail throughout his home.
computer
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In 1996 desktop computer software will allow two-way conversations, bringing the technology to the mass market.&038;.
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The analogy with computer software is not, of course, exact.
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Some cost estimators now specialize in only estimating computer software development and related costs.
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The costs of computer software is not prohibitively expensive in addition, hardware costs have also fallen substantially.
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But the addition of sophisticated computer software could extend those capabilities still further.
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Personal computer software looks to be a good money spinner too having grown 200% though from an admittedly small customer base.
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Neither the federal copyright law nor guidelines mentioned above apply to copying computer software , and such copying is not fair use.
database
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The company, a maker of database software , said its customers were cancelling orders in fear of recession.
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Databases One of the earliest uses of computers in history teaching involved the use of database software .
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The shipping deadline has slipped, but the Redwood Shores database software giant remains deeply committed to the project.
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The two companies will team up to develop database software with fuzzy search capabilities.
developer
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Poem Videobox is a software developers kit that enables programmers to incorporate the company's decompression techniques into their own products.
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Altogether, the company hopes to reach 750, 000 software developers .
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Application services will reside on top, and that's what the majority of software developers will wait for.
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The problem confronting software developers remains the high cost of creating and competitively marketing these products.
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NetLS software developer kit are due in the third quarter.
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Prospective software developers had to learn the secrets of the toolbox so they could follow the guidelines for human interface.
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The group also plans to launch an independent software developers programme in 1993.
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It was his job to convince software developers to write programs for Macintosh.
development
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These are: data library services, data base management, software development , methodological research, and research training.
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There are many opportunities for machine assembly and software development .
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Products Usually the product package is created for use when software development is completed and the software is ready for issue.
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Others manage computer operations, software development , or data bases.
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Spry Inc has reorganised, dividing its system integration and software development operations into two separate companies.
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Qualiparc is built upon the Uniface software development environment and costs from £5,000 up.
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The cost of software development is one of the fastest growing and most difficult activities to estimate.
engineer
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Certainly not software engineers or aerobics instructors.
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And Rob, the twice-fired software engineer ?
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Set up in 1999 by John Breen, a software engineer in Indiana, the site aims to reduce world hunger.
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The typical software engineer at Tandem is making $ 65, 000 to $ 80, 000 a year.
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At that time I was considered one of the best software engineers of my generation.
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Jerome Coonen, one of the software engineers , spoke for the entire team.
engineering
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It will prepare students for a career in a software engineering environment in industry or research.
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It has signed on undisclosed terms to use Oracle Corp's manufacturing and financial applications, including software engineering products worldwide.
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The software engineering theme continues with a study of a modular approach to designing computer solutions.
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Next plans further international subsidiaries and is to expand its software engineering division.
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Fujitsu will create software engineering products based on the SoftBench Framework for use on its own systems.
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Software Engineering and Database Systems: Database technology and software engineering.
firm
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Four years ago, he founded a computer software firm which developed software for the Internet.
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Like many young software firms , Dimension X started off by consulting for other companies to help pay the bills.
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We once did some work with a software firm whose competitor had introduced a wildly successful new home finance program.
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Apple and several other computer and software firms also offer free conversion programs.
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The 1996 figure included charges associated with its $ 3. 3 billion acquisition of software firm Lotus Development Corp.
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We recently worked with a software firm headed by an executive who seemed to have taken this notion to heart.
giant
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Earnings for chip manufacturers like Intel and software giants like Microsoft have long depended on an unrelenting and accelerating cycle of upgrades.
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There was even room for high-profile newcomers at the toy fair, such as software giant Microsoft.
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Netscape faces a long, drawn-out battle with software giant Microsoft, but Barksdale says he is up to the task.
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The software giant only recently turned its attention to the Internet.
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Oracle, the Redwood City software giant , jumped 11 / 4 to 371 / 2.
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Win 95 has been a bestseller since the software giant rolled it out almost two years ago.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant may own the market for operating systems and business software for personal computers.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant also offered free Internet features to anyone who uses it.
house
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Many software houses sell consultancy, and disappointing product sales from 1988-91 have driven the major hardware suppliers into the services market.
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Steve Belkin, 32, is technical support manager for a City software house .
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Second, software houses are happily riding the wave of innovation that the Internet has set off.
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It is also contemplating tie-ups with software houses or large user organisations abroad.
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Another 7 percent is contracted with independent software house , and computer makers provide the remaining 6 percent.
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Siemens Nixdorf wants its agents to operate purely as software houses .
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The advantage of working with a software house to design your own package is that the end product is tailor-made.
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Sierra On-Line is a software house that is justly famous for its high-quality games.
industry
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The software industry will therefore undergo a profound change.
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Quintus is aiming its product at the high-tech and software industry and hardware and software managers inside end-user organisations.
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Northern Ireland has established a reputation as a centre of excellence in the international software industry .
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Recently the Bangalorean software industry has been aping what happened in Manhattanmoving some offices into the center of the city.
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It could also hurt the software industry , although companies working on the Internet Box say it would just shift software sales.
maker
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Shares of computer and software makers also were lower.
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The 19-person start-up was funded by Colorado-based desktop publishing software makers Quark Inc.
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The software maker blames the hardware.
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Those software makers rose 900 percent, and 826 percent respectively over the same period.
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But the biggest changes lie ahead, say Internet analysts, software makers and other observers.
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Oracle Corp., another software maker , rose 2 to 43 3 / 4.
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Moreover, a growing number of software makers are releasing short demonstration versions of their programs.
package
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In desperation, WordPerfect has let Borland International, a Californian rival, bundle its word-processor into a software package .
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A software package called Morph selling for under $ 100 does this.
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Useful appendices provide information on the various software packages and how to use them, and some helpful troubleshooting guides.
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It is a free software package developed by Phillip Zimmerman that encrypts e-mail.
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Tel-me is a software package that runs on 80386 or 80486 personal computers under Microsoft Corp Windows 3.1.
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Business-oriented spreadsheet applications can be set up to solve these problems, and special-purpose capital budgeting software packages are readily available.
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Various software packages have been designed in order to facilitate the storage and analysis of materials such as interview transcripts and fieldnotes.
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Most of us are conversant with modems, microchips, and software packages .
product
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It is essential to realise at the outset that desktop publishing software is totally unlike any other software product category.
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Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Compuware develops software products for mainframe computer users.
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The company is also adding ClearCase and Track to its CASEVision family of software products .
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Sybase Inc., a maker of database management software products , fell 2 3 / 4 to 28 3 / 4.
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An example of a software product incorporating this feature is Analog Devices's simulator for its ADSP-2101.
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The company rolled out a series of new, easier-to-use Windows-based software products last year, most of them hits.
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The company now offers user-based licences tailored to the particular software product and its possible usage patterns.
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With the help of his son and a friend, he developed a software product that performed a few simple file-transfer functions.
program
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If software programs were covered by patent rather than copyright legislation, there would be ways round these difficulties.
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Some count how many software programs are sold.
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It has also been tested with over 2100 software programs and has proved to be compatible.
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Although many analysts like its software programs , the company faces increasing competition from giants such as Microsoft Corp.
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Third Party Software Leading molecular scientists worldwide have developed effective specialised software programs noted for advancing science.
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The computer runs a backup software program for launching and landing the shuttle.
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PageMaker-the software program from Aldus Corporation that everyone associates with desktop publishing due to its immense success on the Apple Macintosh.
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For most users, this requires a software program known as a telnet client.
system
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The crew is expected to be involved in networking technologies and other system software stuff.
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This involves developing critical expertise in scalable computing areas such as components, interconnects, computing architectures, and systems software .
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Tandem's move reinforces current thinking which sees microkernel system software as very much an up and coming trend across the industry.
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The least-finished part of the Macintosh was the Finder, the part of the system software visible to the user.
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It runs version 1.5 of the company's NetServer System software , which includes on-line backup, partition support and performance management.
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As high-performance computing hardware is built, the systems software to make it usable is developed, then the applications software.
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Of course in both cases their technology covers system software not applications the way 88open's does.
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It also links application programs, compilers, system software and file access in one package.
vendors
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It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version.
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The enticement to independent software vendors is the range of stable Sparc systems from laptops to supercomputers coming to market.
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However SparcWare's gaze is firmly fixed on the 42 independent software vendors responsible for 60% of the product volume worldwide.
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Here, International Software negotiates contracts with software vendors and ensures that customers get a good price.
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Some 500 independent software vendors have delivered applications for OS/2 in 1992, and many more are in the works it said.
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If demand for its Microsoft based Intel Corp desktops encourage independent software vendors sufficiently development of a MicroSparc-based desktop will be considered.
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Independent software vendors who have developer kits say knowing Windows programming makes migration relatively straight forward.
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Some independent software vendors have gone further.
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allow
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School library services are also now increasingly building up software collections, allowing school librarians and teachers to see demonstrations of software.
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ClickNsettle's proprietary software allows the parties to exchange offers until the figures are within 30 percent of each other.
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Combined with microcomputer retrieval software , this allows powerful search features to be incorporated.
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The software that allows consumers to tap into the Net from their phones comes from Unwired Planet.
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This was an integrated family of large computers with related software which would allow for convenient upgrading.
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The software allows you to define the network structure and performs the calculations and updates.
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Windows a software technique that allows a rectangular area of a computer screen to display output from a program.
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The software it runs allows you to create topics, post messages, exchange mail and download software.
based
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Support prices now are available on a product-by-product basis, replacing a more complex scheme based on categories of software .
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Farmington Hills, Michigan-#based Compuware develops software products for mainframe computer users.
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Working Model Working Model is award-winning desktop based software for analysing and solving engineering problems involving 2D and 3D motion and mechanisms.
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Excluding the gain, the Redmond, Washington-#based software company said per-share earnings rose to 87 cents.
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ParaSet defines a new product class based on parametric software development, which manages the complexity of design and maintenance.
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Also available are neural-network-\#based turnkey software packages.
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The alternatives offered by technology for organizational communication, whether based on hardware or software , fall into three basic areas.
buy
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Having bought a machine equipped with its operating system, many take the easy route and buy its applications software too.
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My government bought this software from a technologically sophisticated country, maybe the same one it buys arms from.
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Once the customer decides to buy the software , Hewlett provides a password over the phone granting a permanent licence.
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Users would not need to buy packaged software , nor would they have to learn programs and operating systems.
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The price, perhaps $ 2 a pop, would be much cheaper than buying the software outright.
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You don't even need to buy any software .
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You buy new software and then you have to learn how to use it.
design
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One of the co-op's big successes was designing the software for a computer graphics system called the Bit Stik.
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Most needs can be met by products available on an off-the-shelf basis and you will rarely need to design your own software .
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He thought he was the best in the world at designing software .
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Should the auditor design his own software packages?
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In between, he designed software for his phone systems, which allow callers to perform various functions through a voice menu.
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We take care to avoid this by designing appropriate software .
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The system is designed around a graphics-oriented software package, called FirstClass Client Software, sent free to new users.
develop
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An alternative approach to real-time monitoring is to develop software capable of receiving data from external monitoring systems.
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This is a developing service which should also develop software standards in the future.
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Dozens of other local firms are developing components, software , equipment and accessories for wireless phones.
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A programming language used to develop application software .
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Farallon, based in Alameda, develops Internet connectivity software .
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This is seen as an opportunity for developing software and technological industries and providers through the stimulus of opening up education markets.
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Sanborn said one of his students received an offer of $ 60, 000 to develop software .
include
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Other facilities include limiting software to particular users, stations or particular times of day.
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But they also appear on a screen saver that PointCast includes with its software .
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How much of this support is included in the software price?
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Look for information on the Web site as well as information included with the downloaded software .
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Local expertise includes financial and networking software .
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Future applications include video game software and theme park rides.
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These include bespoke software , systems integration, 2d database building, project management and consultancy.
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Once again, the budget has been increased to include computer-based sequencing software and synchronising devices a-plenty.
install
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There's no need in any case to install new software .
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When you install the software , the drive is automatically recognized and configured.
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Business Superstore will install the software , offer training and supply a full technical back-up.
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PalmPilots can install software only by linking to a personal computer.
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By simply placing this in the ink cartridge bay and installing the software provided, your printer is converted into a scanner.
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Better yet, purchase and install a good anti-virus software program.
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Don't believe any provider that insists you need to install their software .
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To get into Worlds Away, you must install software .
provide
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Finally, the Workstation Auditing Module tracks equipment configuration, and also provides software and hardware inventory features.
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He sees excellent opportunities in companies that provide software , peripheral equipment and access to the Internet.
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Destiny provides imaging controller software and hardware technology for printers and desktop peripherals.
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Although providing your own software may sound like a hassle, it has its benefits.
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The better operations will provide you with software that makes it easy to sign up and log on.
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The Department of Education and Science provides the software and training for teachers.
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In addition to Nokia, Geoworks has deals to provide smart phone software to Erikson and Toshiba.
run
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To add to customers' problems, he said, old mainframes can't run new software with additional functionality.
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A Pentium Pro computer running 32-bit software in a pure 32-bit operating system is screamingly fast compared with current models.
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Consequently, they have been run as software simulations, often on supercomputers.
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Geoff, who now runs a successful computer software company, is meticulous about the detail throughout his home.
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The computer runs a backup software program for launching and landing the shuttle.
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Do you just want to run knitting design software ?
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The major problem is that the trained aides are needed to run the software .
sell
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But the company believes that it has some products it can sell new, notably software for diagnosing faults in computers.
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Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., which sells educational software , dropped 15 percent, or 3, to 17.
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The remarks followed a court case in which a couple admitted selling counterfeit software at car boot sales.
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Computer companies such as Safeguard Scientifics, which sells microcomputers and software , held eight spots.
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First, it sells software packages, which generate 20% of revenues.
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Citrix Systems Inc., for example, develops and sells client-server software to make Microsoft Windows applications more effective.
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At one point he was involved in all aspects of selling some of our software .
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But the companies that sell tax software also offer free information on the web.
use
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The scanner manufacturers use lots of clever software to simulate halftones by a process called dithering.
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You may instead be using software from an Internet service provider or from the company that bundled software with your computer.
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Preparation time is a vital consideration in planning to use the software as well as in actually using it.
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Soon preschoolers will get their shot using new peripherals and software developed jointly by Compaq Computer Corp. and Fisher-Price.
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Educational and scientific organisations may also use software for this period without any problems.
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Instead, a user dials into the Internet worldwide computer network and uses software and data that are stored there.
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The couple has used the software in 200 homes, she said.
write
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Could you tell me where I have gone wrong and why the formula has to be written differently for different software .
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Rich gave Overholser three months to write the software .
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Those familiar with writing software for microprocessor controlled systems will know that a lot of development goes into the process.
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The company also writes software for the machines.
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At the end of 1981, Robocom commissioned Computercraft to write the software for the Bit Stik.
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Hundreds of people throughout the world have contributed by writing and modifying Web software and documents.
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Now he writes computer software for the National Blind League but needs a proper job.
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Netscape also wrote software for the computers that display pages on the Web.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a software developer
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India's software industry barely existed 15 years ago but is growing rapidly today.
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The company develops interactive software for schoolchildren.
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word-processing software
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You need special software to view the information in the file.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A glitch in the customer-service software left customers unable to get through to help lines.
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Before downloading any beta software , check the appropriate Usenet news group or online service forum for possible complaints about the software.
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But there is wide variation among Internet providers in cost, features, software , reliability and customer service.
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Drawing software takes a mathematical approach to lines and shapes, and deals with objects rather than individual pixels.
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It is rapidly propagating electronics and software companies.
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The couple has used the software in 200 homes, she said.
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The latest software can imitate the texture of flesh or the topography of a mountain range.
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The nature of software is philosophically problematic.