Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give it.
Sun's OpenOffice.org project should be ready by October and will not only give users access to open-source code but will also provide filters to allow Sun customers to use Microsoft's rival products.
Verizon, by contrast, uses a different standard, known as code-division multiple access (CDMA).
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It signed a deal earlier this year to source phones from an undisclosed Asian contractor that will work with the carrier's chosen technology, code-division multiple access (CDMA).
Microsoft has opened up access to some of the code for its Kinect for Windows motion-sensing device.
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Since they are a self-declared seller of prepaid access (MSB code 413), they now must comply with a litany of Bank Secrecy Act requirements, including Suspicious Activity Reporting.
Google and Yahoo engineers publish software code for public consumption--a way to access their maps, say, or a temporary link to their search tool--and in a near-instant developers around the globe are building new software based on it.
Because the hotel was new, TripAdvisor's algorithm saw strong upward momentum and gave them a Top 10 spot (I'm guessing here -- I don't have access to their code).
CenterPoint's network was engineered by ibm and runs on open-source software, meaning anybody can access the underlying code to develop new products to ride on the communications system CenterPoint is building.
CDMA, so named because the spreading is achieved by a code and its use permits multiple access to transmission facilities, as in mobile-phone systems.
And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code.
Iridian uses a 512-byte code to verify the identity of anyone seeking access to restricted areas and its technology has never allowed access to an unauthorized person, according to the company.
Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
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The House of Lords code of conduct says peers cannot engage in "paid advocacy" - using their access to Parliament to make a profit.
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The interface is intuitive enough for non-technical people to deal with, but give designers and developers access to the underlying code to set things up any way a client wants.
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And Digg, like many other sites that revealed the HD-DVD code, has already been sent a cease and desist letter from the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a digital rights management development group that includes the fearsome lineup of the Walt Disney Co.
But Samsung Electronics, an affiliate of the Samsung chaebol, did have one thing going for it: The firm was totally committed to the up-and-coming phone standard of the time, known as CDMA technology (or code division multiple access), adopted by Sprint.
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