These fingerprints look deep into the characteristics of the machine, logging such things as the time zone, keyboard language, operating-system version and other key identifiers.
He said the aim of the project is to eventually have Swahili language software operating on thousands of computers at grass roots levels, including primary schools and universities.
But investors who put money into very young firms tend to prefer operating in their own language and culture, so start-ups depend mostly on backers from their own country.
Falco, who served as president of the NBC Universal television group before his brief tenure at the Internet company, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Spanish language media giant.
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The company also plans to make the core language of its operating system available this summer to developers who can then use it to design new applications, much in the same way that companies like Apple have cultivated a community of app developers around their gadgets.
They speak the language as opposed to operating via a translator the way an ADR does.
The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.
Google is accused of using the Java programming language in its Android mobile operating system unlawfully.
Fundamentally, we are cultural beings, speaking a language, belonging to a people, operating with a belief system.
Java is a programming language that enables software to run on many operating systems.
That much make sense: Given how much of a data center is virtualized, and the management of that becoming something of an overarching operating system, servers may start to look something like what assembly language does now in a single computer: something critical, but not something people look at a lot, and not a place to stake your fortune.
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