It is true that the core operating hardware for buildings, from home furnaces to complex office HVAC systems, is dramatically more efficient than 20 years ago, and getting better still.
Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
The reorganization recognizes that phones and tablets share common operating systems and hardware that notebooks often do not.
The company has filled the new tablet with a Windows 8 operating system and hardware based on suggestions from fans and consumers.
To emulate Unisys and IBM and establish legitimacy as a "solutions" seller, Nyberg must shake NCR's reputation for pushing only its homegrown technologies, operating systems, hardware, software, the works.
Our Gobi fifth generation reference platform helps ensure that OEMs can develop products across their choice of operating systems and hardware platforms to meet the growing demand for mobile connectivity.
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Mr Schneier predicts that insurance companies will start to specify what kinds of computer equipment companies should use, or charge lower premiums to insure more secure operating systems or hardware.
Ballmer talked of the revolutionary implications of a world, perhaps five years away, where all media is delivered via Internet protocol, and said Microsoft would be everywhere--games, search, operating systems, hardware--to capture that.
Nowadays the newest things being fitted into your hand aren't hardware and operating-system innovations at all.
PCs is not so much the hardware and operating system, but the application software.
Apple has not traditionally done that well outside of hardware and operating systems.
By controlling the hardware, operating system and many of the peripherals, Apple made the Mac easy to use, but also much more expensive.
Cloud may be a workable approach, however, if only one of these elements (hardware, operating system, or application layer) are based on custom technology.
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In the Mac world, where Apple controls hardware, operating system, software, and all my iOS devices, an upgrade can make them all work better together.
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Apple found the sweet spot in terms of matching up the Operating System and the Hardware, and then let people go and play in the space.
All of this is possible because of virtualization, a process which increases effectiveness by inserting a level of software between the operating system and the hardware.
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It's as if Microsoft is eating itself, trying to catch up with the mobile revolution while still packaging its new operating system in pricey hardware that's clearly declining in popularity with consumers.
After delays and a software preview, RIM BlackBerry finally pulled the wraps off of it's new hardware and operating system that we'd been looking for the end of January to bring.
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Creating applications that can take advantage of these is a big task with hundreds of different devices running Android whereas the number of hardware devices operating Apple iOS is limited to three phones and three iPads, with similar components.
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Not only is the operating system no longer managing the hardware, thanks to the work of VMware and Citrix, but as applications continue move to the Web operating systems are also losing relevance on the software side to the browser.
But with a 6-year head start in mapping and complete control of the hardware and the operating software, it is plausible bet.
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Ten years ago, if you had suggested that we would be operating retail stores and selling hardware in the year 2013, people might have looked at you funny.
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Throughout the institute's 25-year history (we are a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach), we have analyzed these raw data with custom algorithms operating on semi-custom hardware.
To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
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In addition, we are working across the mobile industry with operators, hardware manufacturers, operating system providers, and developers to improve the Facebook experience on mobile devices and make Facebook available to more people around the world.
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The challenge with Big Data is that it includes everything from hardware, through operating system, databases, analytics and business intelligence technologies, visualization software, post-graduate level mathematics and statistics, and innovative approaches to business and social problems.
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"So instead of building a phone, which seems like a desperate move, Facebook should partner with every operating system and carrier and hardware maker it can to try to embed this social platform within every mobile platform, " Blodget said.
While Apple can link its hardware to its own operating system, Samsung uses Android like most other smartphone manufacturers.
Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.
Once a few glitches and more transit applications become more prevalent, iOS 6 is top of the line and the iPhone 5 is some extraordinary hardware to match the operating system.
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