Mundie is right though that the Tellme facility does offer Microsoft a kernel of Siri.
Behind every boom there is a kernel of truth--a fundamental reason why it all began.
There may be a kernel of truth there, but the explanation is simply not satisfying.
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We took that as a kernel of an idea and validated it in all our key markets.
"There isn't a kernel of evidence that they need this subsidy, " he said, appearing to enjoy his pun.
Sometimes, what peddlers of pseudoscience say may have a kernel of real truth that makes it seem plausible.
To assess the ear's age, pull back the husk and taste a kernel.
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An old joke, I know, but like all old jokes it works because it contains a kernel of painful truth.
The real lesson is: was there a kernel of truth in your boss' criticisms about your organizational skills or lack of leadership?
However, like so much of what comes from the Romney campaign, a kernel of truth rarely tells anything close to the entire story.
The old joke that the way to render an Italian speechless is to tie his hands together has a kernel of truth in it.
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While such claims may contain a kernel of truth, they are at best subjective and at worst misleading or even hypocritical, some environmentalists say.
Both of them are less of a "boot" and more of a "wake from hibernation" sort of thing, but most of the issues are the same -- you still have to boot a kernel, whether or not you're gonna populate the system with a saved state when it's ready.
Note: While Android is based on a Linux kernel, the goal behind Tizen seems to be an even more open-source, flexible OS designed to be user-friendly and carrier-friendly.
"It's a really good way of testing if stuff works, because if you can hold the attention of a festival audience, then the kernel of a show is there, " explains Holmes.
Mr. CLEMENT: I think way, way underneath that, there is a tiny little kernel that is warm and fuzzy.
The contract builds on NSA's prior work in developing a set of new security controls for the Linux kernel and NAI Labs' prior work in developing a basic security policy configuration for these security controls and several additional kernel controls.
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Many recipients of government research funding simply used the money to conduct their experiments and move on, but some, like Wu, saw the cash as the kernel of a business.
If the Union expands to, say, 20 members over the next five years or so, it will be harder still for the integrationists to create even the kernel of a United States of Europe.
Farther down the hall, Open Kernel and CohesiveFT, a cloud-computing firm run by Patrick Kerpan, ex-CTO of software icon Borland, run larger operations.
Coverity's founders, four graduate students from Stanford University and their professor, recently grammar-checked the entire Linux 2.6.9 kernel operating system and found a respectably low 950 bugs in 5.5 million lines.
Within a week and a half, VA Linux had rewritten the kernel, and the data center has worked flawlessly since.
Enter Spark, a seven-inch slate that comes running the Plasma Active UX, an open-source OS based on Linux kernel, KDE's multi-platform Plasma environment and a dash of Qt for good measure.
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The protection mechanisms that are present in the Windows kernel are rendered less effective inside of a virtual machine as opposed to a physical machine.
Fixed kernel panic issue that system goes into a non-responsive state.
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Mr Torvalds released the first version of the Linux kernel in 1991, when he was a 21-year-old computer-science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Firstly Canonical told the world that they are working on a mobile version of Ubuntu, which uses the Android kernel and could be on sale in 2014.
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Raduchel: Our PJava (personal), EJava (embedded), which is a subset of P, and KJava (originally meant kernel) for use in the smallest devices, are all out in beta now.
The Economic Times intimates that these big corporate agencies have been working on a brand for so long, they are effectively blinkered to any kernel of an idea which is outside their usual, comfort-zoned box.
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