The other is in-house software developers, who are under increasing pressure to turn out intelligent devices quickly.
Well, it looks like Sony's in-house software developers have decided this is the perfect week to deliver delicious treats to a large portion of the company's mobile lineup.
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If your business is building products, why divert from your core competency to develop in-house software tools when you can hire a company like Salesforce.com to deliver the services you need from the cloud?
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For the new ordering system, the company developed the software in house and used hardware from International Business Machines Corp.
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Apple thought it could design hardware and software in house and use standard off the shelf parts but that leads to copy cats because parts are parts.
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And then there is the need for new talent: only by developing designs and software in-house can HTC give products a unique look and feel.
After almost deleting the original email from Gabe Newell, Yanis Varoufakis accepted the post as in-house economist for gaming software powerhouse Valve Corporation.
In a similar fashion, we control the quality of our product by developing our software and supporting our product in house.
It offers outsourcing services to clients interested in developing credit scoring systems as well as selling software for a client to use in-house.
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But what you need now is not a company creating software, but an in-house team devoted to converting it.
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In that respect, the company is a classic enterprise software success story, replacing a piece of software that was built in-house with a stronger product.
Iwata said Nintendo is preparing more game software, including those developed in-house, for the end of this year.
His reluctance faded amid Oracle's faltering in-house efforts and his own view that the software industry was slowing down and might never reaccelerate.
Mark built a software program that allowed the computers in the house and the office to send messages to one another.
Ready-made software, service providers as well as in-house solutions are now providing business-grade security to a significant amount of business data.
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The hybrid battery system, hybrid transmission system and software for C-MAX Energi all were developed in-house.
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One big shift for Nintendo with the launch of the 3DS is that it is working more closely with outside software developers, rather than relying mostly on popular in-house games to drive the initial hardware sales.
In 2000, a friend informed him of a bank which desperately needed clearing house software.
However, Douglas Wylie, Business Development Manager for Networks and Security at Rockwell Automation said in-house research found the vulnerability to be more pervasive within the Rockwell family of software.
Fund managers can use data they already have to monitor each step of their investment supply chain from broker research to in-house analysts, trade execution and portfolio management with a new tool from Advent Software.
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This open-source data analysis software allows everyone in theory to know the exact value of their house, their car and even their business prospects.
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To paraphrase Allison, if you build a house you employ people for just a time, whereas if you invest in a factory or new software, the investment feeds growth for years and years.
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Beyond merely guarding the entrances to your house, he shows how the software can keep a detailed log or send text message alerts every time any door in the house is opened, to monitor practically every activity in the house.
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For the hackathon, participants will come to the White House to share their work, talk with the API developers, and submit examples to be included in a software development kit (SDK).
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Using software you install on your PC, you can take complete control over all the phones in the house and turn your internal phone network into a system like a private branch exchange (PBX) not unlike what you might find at the office.
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