A soft key is a button flexibly programmable to invoke any of a number of functions rather than being associated with a single fixed function or a fixed...
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SoftKey International (originally SoftKey Software Products, Inc.) was a software company founded by Kevin O'Leary in 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. It was...
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actions, a form of soft key. On some keyboards/computers, function keys may have default actions, accessible on power-on. Function keys on a terminal may...
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MECC (redirect from Acquisition of MECC by SoftKey)
Brookdale Corporate Center in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. It was acquired by SoftKey in 1995 and was shut down in 1999. During the 1960s, Minnesota was a center...
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(increasing) the keys of at most a constant number of values in the heap. The constant time operations are: create(S): Create a new soft heap insert(S,...
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on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den. O'Leary co-founded SoftKey Software Products, a technology company that sold software geared toward...
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market. It runs on a stripped-down version of Series 30 with a single soft key and a feature set is similar to the previous 5110/3210/3310 models that...
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Group sex (redirect from Soft Swapping)
"full swap", or choose to "soft swap" in which they engage only in non-penetrative sex. New swinging couples often choose a soft swap before they are comfortable...
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The Learning Company (section SoftKey acquisition)
In December 1995, the company was acquired by SoftKey in a hostile takeover bid, at which point SoftKey assumed the Learning Company name and brand. The...
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California, then later to Novato, California. Broderbund was purchased by SoftKey in 1998. Many of Broderbund's software titles, such as The Print Shop,...
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A soft launch, also known as a soft opening, is a preview release of a product or service to a limited audience prior to the general public. Soft-launching...
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Turn the Key Softly is a 1953 British drama film directed by Jack Lee and starring Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison, and Terence Morgan...
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soft skills as an umbrella term for skills under three key functional elements: people skills and personal career attributes. The importance of soft skills...
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multifunction display (MFD) is a small-screen (CRT or LCD) surrounded by multiple soft keys (configurable buttons) that can be used to display information to the...
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MT-900 from 1992, some of the first mobile phones in the industry using Soft keys. Finally, the MT-2000 was the first in the industry to have a built-in...
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Shackle (redirect from Soft shackle)
soft shackle open, eye with ring closed Dyneema soft shackle open, eye opened using the ring Dyneema soft shackle with diamond knot head locked Soft shackle...
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the 'wider' or 'soft' Key Skills. Assessment arrangements for Key Skills vary between England, Wales and Northern Ireland (see below). Key Skills may be...
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Turn the Key Softly is a 1951 novel by the British writer John Brophy. It follows the lives of three women in the first dozen hours after they are released...
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the time but functioned much more smoothly because of the soft key concept. The soft keys were also featured in the word processor, database, and modem...
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In 1998, Broderbund was purchased by The Learning Company, (formerly SoftKey) who took responsibility for developing and publishing the series in 2001...
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your callback. Isoetec Digital Systems Display/Data Phone Press "Cb." Soft key at the busy signal. Replace the handset or press "HF". Wait for the double...
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the keypad is locked than it would be otherwise. An example of this is a soft key programmed to make an emergency call when the keylock is set. On touch-screen...
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an educational video game released by MECC in 1995. It was published by SoftKey Multimedia. It is a revised version of the original The Oregon Trail video...
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players or CPUs. After the development of Mario Party 8, several of Hudson Soft's key designers left to work for Nintendo subsidiary NDcube, developers of Wii...
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mystery-solving teenagers. The series was created by The Learning Company (formerly SoftKey) as a counterpart to their Reader Rabbit series for older, elementary-aged...
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'hotkeys' or 'soft keys' perform the function of making binary decisions, labelled on the phone's display. The button in between of these 'soft keys' acts as...
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Soft Machine are an English rock band from Canterbury, Kent. The band were formed in 1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and...
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T/Maker by WordStar in 1993, but shortly after that, WordStar merged with SoftKey, which ultimately led to its discontinuation. It had a combination of powerful...
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Monolith Software Inc., trading as Monolith Soft, is a Japanese video game development studio originally owned by Namco (later Bandai Namco) until being...
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games were published by Creative Wonders, The Learning Company (formerly SoftKey) and Mattel Interactive. They were developed in association with DIC Entertainment...
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