The company also owns several worldwide subsidiaries and funds partner affiliates that contribute technology and software for the Nintendo brand.

She has contributed software to LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and the MATLAB distribution.

In particular, the tiny portable devices are likely to be made by Japanese companies, with Apple contributing software and design.

Indeed, some rarely left their apartments and contributed their thoughts, criticisms and software over the team's private network.

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Microsoft will contribute software, consulting and training for the centers, which are to be built in remote Mexican towns and villages to give residents free access to the Internet.

I.B.M., the world's largest computer maker, is contributing software and hardware that allows cellular operators to modernize the existing $9 billion network with a relatively modest investment of perhaps several hundred million dollars.

Being a hacker now has a positive connotation, since iPhone hackers have been the ones contributing software.

This could include trying to compare the rate of growth of contributed software to the degree of formality and enforcement of standards for documentation, testing, and coding.

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a proposed settlement of more than 100 class-action lawsuits, requiring the company to contribute cash, software and hardware to bring computing to 12,500 public schools in low-income neighborhoods.