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.
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.
"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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Linaro engineers, leveraging their extensive embedded knowledge, will contribute to a wide range of open source projects covering areas such as tools, kernel, graphics and boot code.
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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Another new venture in technology journalism, Kernel Magazine has also launched in recent weeks, though with a more gossipy brand of reporting than that promised by Matter.
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.
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.
While many open-source fans will be downloading a copy for the more recent Linux 3.2.29 kernel and other updated packages, ease of use is the guiding principle for the new build: there's now a graphical NetworkManager interface to manage wired and wireless connections, for a start.
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