ECoS is an open software platform that can host a range of third-party applications that provide intelligent distributed control services to utilities and their customers.
Nina is also the first solution that provides an open software development kit (SDK) to support the rapid integration of virtual assistant capabilities into existing mobile applications.
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Awhile back, EMC-owned VMWare bought Springsource, an open source software company that it hopes to can create an easy to use cloud developer environment for both Java and Ruby on Rails.
It works well when cities open their data to the public or when, as in the case of Wikipedia, an open-source software platform supports open-source content.
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Some security researchers even believe that the CAPTCHA-breaking software was using Tesseract--an open source image recognition software sponsored by Google itself and used in its book-scanning projects--to recognize the distorted characters.
The open-cage printer will work using "fused filament fabrication" with 1.75mm filament, and will also feature 100 micron layer resolution (0.1 millimeter), rigid aluminum construction, an open-source software tool chain and optional heated build platform.
Renert says Tello works with products from Cisco Systems and Avaya, makers of traditional private branch exchanges (PBXs), plus Digium, an open-source PBX software company.
Putting out an open-source collection of software would allow all three to integrate Google's services into its efforts.
Google is also releasing the connector software as an open-source product so developers can build connectors to what Google executives said are about 300 other content management systems on the market.
This inexpensive solution paves the way for an entirely new generation of middleware software and applications to be developed in an open source environment.
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Google makes the software available on an open-source basis, meaning others including rivals are free to adapt it to their needs.
Costs though have been kept low, first, by adopting an open policy in selecting devices and software and encouraging multiple private vendors.
These companies are either adding support services to an existing open source project or creating software and using open source as a marketing technique.
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The company will also announce next week a 60-day free trial of the Red Hat Network, available through www.redhat.com , that will include access to directory services, outbound user notifications, an automated stream of open-source software, and access to community support forums.
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
Cloudera specializes in software for Hadoop, an open-source database tool designed to work at very large scales.
At a time when hospitals are spending millions to digitize, open source EHR software is an alternative option to costly and proprietary systems.
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"Phone makers can focus on building cooler hardware and new platforms, and save 10% of their software costs" with an open source platform, asserts Rubin.
Zero coincidentally, that same day EMC released an open source version of its data warehousing software, hoping to attract the kind of developers who might otherwise work on R.
To make matters worse for Wink, the interactive TV industry has been moving toward an open standard that will make Wink's software easier to copy.
And Johansen is an advocate of the open-source philosophy of sharing software code for free.
Hours after he uttered those words, Wipro, an Indian pioneer of software services said it would open a new development centre in Atlanta, Georgia, that will report to its headquarters in Bangalore.
While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
Bender, who is in charge of software, says that operating in such an open manner has subjected his project to withering criticism because so many people were invited to see early versions nowhere near completion.
This made it difficult to realize personal content protection with a set of dedicated application software and dedicated content file formats in an open environment like Android, since a variety of applications freely developed by third-parties started to be downloaded and executed.
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Android operating system, which is used with an array of device makers and is based on open-source software, so it can be more vulnerable to security breaches.
Like open source software, he defines the SVSC as an ecosystem of mentors and young entrepreneurs that can learn from each other and ratchet up the entrepreneurial effectiveness of the region.
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While an open source approach isn't the right solution for every software need, using and contributing back to open source software is one way that we're making it easier for the government to share data, improve tools and services, and return value to taxpayers.
However, with the spread of smartphones, application software is now developed by third-parties in an open environment.
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Bitcoin is an open-source, peer-to-peer, digital currency software.
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