Sentence examples for software alternatives from inspiring English sources

But there aren't many compelling software alternatives to which these partners can turn.

Indeed, Microsoft's strength in the PC market has somewhat worked against it in the wireless field as handset makers in particular seek software alternatives like Symbian and Java.

But Avi Tevanian, Apple's senior vice president for software engineering, said that it was becoming increasingly obvious that Apple was moving toward offering software alternatives to Microsoft.

But since the service became widely available last winter, several software alternatives have been developed, including OpenNap as well as Napigator, that mimic Napster's software but use their own servers to develop central music indexes.

Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner responsible for the digital agenda, who has espoused the benefits of open-source software alternatives, and who as the former competition commissioner completed a 10-year European antitrust prosecution of Microsoft, also declined to comment, said Jonathan Todd, a spokesman.

Open-source software alternatives keep improving.

ownCloud was started three years ago when Frank Karlitschek wanted a free software alternative to proprietary solutions.

And there's a new 'selfie panorama' mode option to offer a software alternative to wielding a selfie stick.

Personally I don't find SMS that tricky, and I think the company may be too enamored with its software alternative to NFC.

But for anyone who doesn't own, and doesn't want to own, a selfie stick then this software alternative offers a less cumbersome/socially awkward — and free — alternative.

An FPGA-based hardware implementation of these algorithms has been preferred with respect to a software implementation running on an embedded processor since, when dealing with 1024×1024 pixels images, the software alternative can lead to execution times in the order of tens of seconds (see Section 'Experimental results' for further details).