No wonder the manufacturers are now working together to draw up common software standards.
Instead, it relies on common software protocols and formats so that individual computer applications can find and talk to one another across the internet.
He hired pros in online travel, airlines, package shipping and other service specialties who were able to figure out a common software design for these services.
Part of what will be required is a common underlying software layer that runs on all electronic devices.
This change is most common among software developers, many who work in other locations and are never seen in any office, but continue to contribute.
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And because no common law governs software and Internet-access transactions, proponents say manufacturers have nearly exclusive power to decide software sales terms.
It used to be common practice in software to offer what was called an "expert mode" that simplified interfaces and allowed users to employ shortcuts to get what they needed.
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In themselves, these are useful tools, except these automated pieces of software lack common sense.
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In the summer of 2005, Charlie Miller was working in his living room when he discovered a hackable vulnerability in a common species of server software.
All the major vendors- SAP, Oracle, IBM, and Computer Associates- have software that automates common problems that many companies face.
This common, secure environment for software execution will utilize advanced hardware security coupled with industry standard software interfaces, such as those from the GlobalPlatform industry association.
By providing the common foundations of tools and software for other distributions and stacks to build upon, Linaro enables greater operational efficiency for the electronics industry.
James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.
Mr. Ballmer placed a high-profile bet on a computing philosophy that PCs, tablet computers and smartphones should share common elements, style and underlying software.
According to Nick Nikols, Vice President and GM, Identity, Security, and Windows Management for Quest Software, it is common to find incorrect resource access permission in almost all organizations.
Later units will have Global Positioning System chips to eliminate the common mistake--caught by software on Bolofsky's site--of failing to match the street address to a written description of where a car was parked.
The program could be used by anyone who knew the password, and he had picked an especially weak one: "pos, " a common nickname for the cash-register software that was also the system's user name.
In a post on its support forums, Apple said the update to the Java software platform "removes the most common variants" of the Flashback malware.
Handicap software converts all scores into a common index.
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Some of the screen names--changed for this story--were real, however, and what InfoGlide's software "found" is all too common among on-line auction sites.
The fact is that this strategic tariff aversion plan, which is as legal and common as off-the-shelf tax minimization software at Best Buy, was the brainchild of the U.S. domestic furniture industry before it filed the case in 2004.
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Likewise, this technology should be developed as an industry standard across all makes and models, with common electronics that would allow for easy serviceability or software upgrades, unlike all the poorly designed and unreliable touch control systems currently available, which by their nature will become woefully outdated and perhaps disdained by buyers in just a few years.
Installing antivirus software, for instance, is the most common sense rule for protecting your PC.
SCO, a tiny software firm in Utah, and Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, have only one thing in common.
Do Assistant seeks to take speech software even further by offering a suite of common business applications that run entirely by voice command.
Critical parts are typed up by hand and, despite a wealth of testing tools that claim to catch bugs, the complexity of software makes security flaws and errors nearly unavoidable and increasingly common.
The common interface standards mean that there are rules for constructing the hardware and software used in the family of radios so that even though they may have different configurations and users, they can all communicate when their settings match.
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Not surprisingly given Microsoft's big cloud push, the emphasis with the upgrade is on improving how well the software scales for internet hosting -- the company wants one common backbone that can handle as little as a small e-mail server to large-scale Azure deployments and virtualization.
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Since launching about a year ago, the company has partnered with the University of Maryland to simulate emergency responses to traffic accidents, and the U.S. Army has begun using its software to train soldiers in responding to improvised explosive devices, a common threat in Iraq.
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