The phrase "a series of software" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used when referring to multiple software programs or applications collectively, but "software" is an uncountable noun and should not be preceded by "a series of."
Example: "The company has developed a series of applications to improve productivity."
Alternatives: "a collection of software" or "a suite of software".
For Ovi, Nokia has acquired a series of software companies, including Navteq, an American maker of digital map data.
It accuses Fidelity of trying to avoid paying $58 million in consulting fees after Grace helped the company win a series of software contracts worth $176 million with the China Construction Bank in 2001.
The group developed a series of software programs, including MountainSort, the program that automates the output from multielectrode recordings, and CaImAn, a machine-learning algorithm that detects the release of calcium in neurons.
But some innovations are bolder, like a series of software tools that simplify the way it can divide a problem to be handled by thousands of processors simultaneously, an approach called parallel processing.
The school, now in its second year, was originally funded entirely by Mr. Richard, who started and sold a series of software companies in the United States before moving to Britain in 2002.
Mr. Lu said the companies had made a series of software missteps, including "betting wrongly" with investments to prime their devices for Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6 operating system, which has basically been rendered obsolete by the recent unveiling of Windows Phone 7.
Bail Bloc is the second in a series of "rhetorical software" projects created by Dark Inquiry, a coalition of technologists, artists, writers, and researchers.
The story of how Brin and Google's other co-founder, Larry Page, met as graduate students in computer science at Stanford in the mid-nineties, and devised a series of elegant software algorithms that allowed Web searchers to find relevant information quickly and efficiently, has become part of Silicon Valley lore.
The comparison was based upon a series of quantitative software metrics applied to both constructs.
A series of customised software applications were developed to acquire and synchronise data from the various sensing instruments.
But late in 2001 the company hired Robin Curle, a consultant who had founded and run a series of small software outfits.
