All the software required to use the module is contained on the module itself, and it installs not only automatically, but quickly and with no user interaction.

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Notebooks include a wireless module, antenna system and software--and are not designed around the wireless components.

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Wave Systems is a software company that leverages the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that is already built into most PCs to essentially enable multi-factor authentication.

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Russian flight controllers reloaded a software upgrade into the computers of the Zvezda module to prepare for the arrival of the docking port.

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It stands for the Profitability Analysis module of its long-standing ERP software.

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Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta was using Novell's initial NetWare Web Server, which ran as a NetWare Loadable Module (NLM), but the company replaced the Novell software with Netscape Enterprise Server.

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As the tablet "means business, " it comes with a bunch of pre-installed utilities for those that need a slate for more than browsing and media, including the Trusted Platform Module, as well as Intel's Active Management Technology and Anti-Theft software.

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Software that is too large to reasonably be installed by syncing with the desktop will typically be available in module form.

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