41.   Warnings of lower profits and apprehension about the traditional summer slowdown in demand hurt software and computer hardware companies.

42.   While changing from a hardware company to a services company cannot be done overnight, Compaq is having to pick up the pace of change.

43.   While the PC hardware companies are coping with lower pricing with varying degrees of success, the security software business is growing rapidly.

44.   And including a whole new operating system would be even more costly for hardware companies.

45.   But to sustain the growth of its software services industry, India needs vibrant and fast expanding hardware companies, said Somnath Chatterjee of the Electronic Component Industries Association.

46.   Motorola has become the first telecommunications hardware company from the United States to sell its products in Laos, the company said Tuesday.

47.   The computer hardware company develops advanced optical data storage products, and has branches in Israel and Russia.

48.   An unnamed official in the private Armscor military hardware company also questioned how South Africa had determined Rwanda a suitable country to send weapons, the Independent said.

49.   South Africa tightened its arms export rules last year, and disallowed the state-owned military hardware company Armscor the right to issue export licenses.

50.   The company said the agreement would allow it in principle to licence the technology to other hardware companies and third-party software developers.