The framework extracts meaning from the driver's spoken words, enabling in-car systems to create calendar appointments, dictate email or text messages, set complex navigation destinations, and even perform general Internet searches.

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Google has copied and replicated Microsoft core offerings with its G-neric: Android and Chrome operating systems, Google Docs, Gmail, Calendar, and Chrome browser.

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The biggest news: Apple has licensed Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone, allowing iPhone users to pour e-mail and calendar information living on their company's Microsoft Exchange systems directly into the iPhone.

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On a computer, people want things like calendar and contact integration, and have complicated folder, tag and color systems.

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The limits of Fortran rattled through software systems so deeply that we were all spooked about the prospect of simply flipping over the calendar on Jan. 1, 2000.

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While businesses using Microsoft 's Exchange will be able to pour calendar information and e-mail directly into iPhones, companies built around Lotus Notes or Novell Groupware systems are out of luck.

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While businesses using Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Exchange will be able to pour calendar information and e-mail directly into iPhones, companies built around Lotus Notes or Novell Groupware systems are out of luck.

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Microsoft repurchased more stock in the third quarter of calendar 2010 than any other company in the nation, according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.

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