Google's Android mobile-device software, which powers hundreds of different devices, supports this technology.
The company has previously said Android phones are the work of manufacturers and carriers and that it merely provides the device software.
The software is a version of its embedded device software, overlaid with the Windows Media Center interface, with media streaming and remote-control capabilities.
In addition to Wind River's Android software platform and services and support, Clarion is using Wind River FAST to test for device software quality and user experience.
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Under Mr. Page, Google is expected to focus on its graphical online-ad initiatives, video site YouTube and its Android mobile device software, people familiar with the matter said.
Kin Studio mimics many of the user experience paradigms of the Kin's on-device software, including access to The Spot and a live connection to your social networks that allows you to send out unified status updates from your browser.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
Somewhere along the way we (consumers) were forgotten and the device or software became all important.
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For instance, Gartner predicts that two-thirds of enterprises will have rolled out mobile device management software by 2017.
He cites an unnamed enterprise customer that deployed 5, 000 iPads to its employees along with mobile device management software.
The new mobile device management software is an evolved version of the BES that is compatible with iOS and Android platforms as well.
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And due to failure to roll out device management software and write group polices, they are hesitant about letting employees bring their tablets in for work.
"The announcement is definitely more about the holy trinity of device, software and applications, and services to which iCloud adds a completely new dimension, " he said.
Adams also ran through the pros and cons of mobile device management software, such as Mobile Iron, which allow businesses to keep a permanent inventory and track their registered handsets.
The competitive intensity and stakes in the mobile device and software business are as high as any situation I can recall, however, and Apple and Microsoft are the two best digital companies in the world.
If no commercial partner comes forward within the next year or two, Faisal says they will publish all the information about their device and software online and make it freely available for anyone to replicate.
In producing applications for mobile phones, independent software developers historically have faced a big challenge: how to write software that works across phones without buying every device and testing their software on it.
Running off a prototype device, the software was fast, fluid and cleanly laid out.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much where the similarities end, as this device's software really wasn't up to scratch.
Today, with an inexpensive device or smartphone software, we can do so with near certainty of finding our way.
These include gaming, visual computing, embedded device and machine software and now security.
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And if Apple jams a Wi-Fi receiver into the device the new software could allow the iPod to include the ability to browse the Web and send and receive e-mail.
Looking to solidify its dominance in the business communications market, Avaya on Wednesday unveiled a tablet device and new software designed to unite phone calls, instant messages and video conferencing in one easy-to-use platform.
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To make every application on every Apple device act and feel like every other application on every Apple device, and to have the software of every Apple device echo the hardware design it runs on.
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While Apple's smallest touchscreen device gained new software that enlarged the main icons and brought new clock faces, these improvements are also being offered to owners of the last-generation iPod nano via a software update.
The Latitude 10 does not require new mobile device management or software licensing, supports new and legacy Windows applications, is compatible with Adobe Flash and connects with existing peripherals to allow end-users to work and play the way they always have.
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And in the meantime he's been spending his days on a hobby that periodically stuns the computer security world: seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple's iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and utterly obliterating its defenses against hackers.
Stevens says any device that can run software and connect to the Internet is capable of hosting Skype.
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Compatible with any digital camera, the geologger device is bundled with software that allows users to map out their photo locations.
The data looked not too troubling, but this device also had a software algorithm that automatically draws a conclusion from the data.
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