Their quality control over their hardware and outside development keeps their products operating at a high level.
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Heineken has learned that, while Africa poses substantial operating challenges for consumer products makers, those hurdles are not insurmountable.
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Its first success was the iPod, and Apple leveraged this to create an iPlatform, an ecosystem built around its closed operating system and closed products.
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On October 28, the company announced that BetaResearch, a German digital television company, will use its Java-based operating system in DTV products like set-top boxes-- five million in total over the next five years.
Palm has now sold nearly 10.9 million organizers, with many more handheld products using its operating system.
Google develops Android under an open-source licensing model, allowing device makers to tweak the operating system to fit their products.
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The new executive could equally propose that Nokia focus on developing own software products and other operating systems like Meego or WindowsPhone 7, so it may boil down to what Elop wants.
In reality, according to what the SEC found, Dell's ability to meet Wall Street's earnings estimates for 20 straight quarters had little to do with the company's superior strategy, customer value proposition, products, or operating efficiencies.
The operating system is also on products from TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--and Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) recently announced that it would offer a Linux-based cell phone.
The reason mobile devices have been immune is arguably because in many ways the opportunities to capitalize on weaknesses and flaws in the relatively young operating systems of these new products have been scarce in comparison to the millions of machines running, for example, Windows.
Because different companies use different operating systems, Symbol makes products based on the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) OS, Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) Pocket PC platform, Windows CE and DOS. What these products have in common is their durability.
The developer tools are designed for both Wind River products and the Linux operating system.
Microsoft derives about 75% of its stock value from Windows operating system and Office suite of products, according to our estimates.
Gregg (HGG): This Indianapolis-based specialty retailer sells video products, brand name appliances, audio products and accessories, operating 228 stores in 20 states.
The company's grocery products segment's operating profits slid 24.5% to higher costs of chicken, beef and pork, even though sales rose by 6.2%.
Everything VMware introduces seems to be moving it in the direction of becoming the Internet operating system, including the new products announced on Tuesday.
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Microsoft does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.
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The iPhone OS, by comparison, is a closed operating system where only certain Apple approved products can be loaded onto the device.
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Microsoft shares surged in after-hours trading after the software icon announced strong quarterly results on high demand for its Vista operating system, as well as other products.
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Microsoft has traditionally enjoyed very high operating profit margins on its enterprise software products like the Office suite as the incremental costs of producing one more copy of the software are very low.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
Compaq still sells Digital's powerful Unix operating system, which competes against similar products from IBM and Sun, but Compaq's long-range plan is to move the bulk of its customers over to the so-called Wintel combination of Intel microprocessors and Microsoft software.
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