"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.
Google, on the other hand, is an open source platform company.
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Three years earlier, people had used a similar open source platform, Sahana, to get the word out about the devastation wrought by the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami.
The timing of the report coincides with recent discussions in the OpenStack project about the lack of interoperability and compatibility between the various deployments of the open source platform.
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In an essay on his personal site that's been circulating the interwebs, Marc Deslauriers outlines the pangs he and the Linux community have felt over the years trying to use iPods on the open source platform, surmising that Apple is intentionally and repeatedly seeking ways to block non-iTunes programs from syncing in any way with its devices.
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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This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).
According to Samsung, KNOX is a new Android-based platform designed from the ground up with security in mind to address the shortcomings of the current open source Android platform.
Google's open source mobile platform, Android, is expected to launch later this year.
The open-source platform has proved hugely successful for Samsung, which is now second only to Apple in the global smartphone race.
In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone.
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Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
Arduino is an open-source platform used for prototyping interactive electronics.
Since the open-source platform was first unveiled in 2007, Google has let developers, device makers and wireless carriers, and more recently even Facebook, modify the platform to suit their business interests.
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Before this strategy Nokia had the goal of developing Meego who was an open source Linux platform made with the help of Intel and other hardware makers with the objective of being capable of be instaled on phones, tablets, PCs, GPS, Televisions and making everything syncronized.
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WordPress is the leading open-source blogging platform that provides the most sophisticated controls of all of the tools mentioned here.
Green u-City will also provide an open-source development platform for local developers to create further apps, either for city managers or for citizens.
The free software community today unveiled the two phones it will ship to developers who want to make apps for its forthcoming open-source mobile platform.
Rubin spent more than three years developing the technology and support for an open-source handset platform, beginning with his days with an eight-person start-up called Android.
OpenGamma, a startup which has so far received two rounds of funding from Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital, is creating a open-source-based platform for trading and risk analytics software to support front office applications.
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OpenGamma used the open source approach to provide a risk analytics platform to financial institutions.
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OpenXC platform will transform the car into a plug-and-play platform where interchangeable open-source hardware and software modules that can be quickly and easily customized by developers for specific tasks.
Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.
The SUSE Linux enterprise computing platform allows for high interoperability between open source and proprietary systems.
He had the technical skills needed to solve this problem and started to build the first traffic platform that combined GPS technology with open source software.
McNamara feels the network will serve as a platform for the exchange of open-source components, a way to "process" those raw materials into something that is useful and available to the entire community.
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.
The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
This extends Azure even further, after a solid year of enhancements to the PaaS platform which included more Linux support and expanded open source developer toolkits.
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And outside the open source search domain, companies like Rosslyn Analytics have developed a platform approach to complex data integration problems.
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