Dr. Prabhakar Reddy is an emergency room doctor in Bangalore, an Indian boomtown known for its call centers and software factories.

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In another domain, not far away from the chip and fiber-optics factories, software writers cooked up clever uses for the new powers.

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Toyota took a deeper dive, first spending four years developing its own software that connects dealers to factories and factories to suppliers.

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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.

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In the mid-1990s she remembers locking horns with fellow GM engineers over decisions such as which software to use to control robots and conveyors in its factories.

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Enterprise software from firms such as SAP, Oracle and Baan has factories and accounting departments running smoothly, more or less, but marketing is still in a digital dark age.

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Backed by software-industry money, it offers rewards in exchange for any tips leading it to illegal factories.

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