Its software unit lost $6 million last quarter, although that is less than it has lost in recent years.

The Xbox game console and software unit is an area of investment that seems to be going according to the company's plan.

In recent months, the company has said it would sell the software unit and a small classified advertising company.

Microsoft has had an automotive software unit in place for eight years and supplies software to 13 automakers.

As of March 31, 2013, Nintendo has sold over 654.1 million hardware units and 4.10 billion software units.

Brass also led the company's Emerging Technology group and its automotive software unit.

Sony now owns approximately 6 percent of Palm's software unit.

As of 31 March 2013, it has sold 31.09 million hardware units and 96.1 million software units worldwide.

The software unit accounts for about 60 percent of the company's total revenue, or $1.8 billion in 2003.

Seagate, the world's largest maker of disk drives, will retain a software unit specializing in business analysis.