Ascend, of Alameda, Calif., announced then that it would sell all nontelecommunications business units, including enterprise computing and software operations.

Among the leaders in that effort is Motorola's two-year-old software operation here.

Indeed, kiosk mode describes such a mode of software operation.

These can be triggered by lack of communications, improper software operation or other critical events.

I.B.M. has not decided who will run the division, which will report to John Thompson, senior vice president and head of software operations.

The company has forecast revenue growth of 10 percent to 15 percent from the combined companies' software operations.

So I had sort of assumed that every software operation had testers.

It also has a software operation there.

Situated right in the heart of the city centre, the operation undertakes a host of software operations for BT nationwide.

Instead, software unreliability is the result of unanticipated results of software operations.