In addition to operating four small research telescopes at the mesa, the observatory is also in partnership with the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) and the Naval Research Lab (NRL) in operating and providing maintenance for the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI).
Dell's operating costs, including research and development, were 10% of revenue last year, versus 20% at Compaq, 21% at Gateway and 45% at Cisco.
Charles Rutstein is the chief operating officer at Forrester Research.
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"Koefoed also noted that the operating system from Palm and Research in Motion both have their own set of development challenges, " Barnicle writes.
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Android operating system, as well as Research In Motion Ltd.
But staying the course with MeeGo, which has no track record, is risky, analysts said, especially in the U.S., where operating systems from Apple, Google and Research In Motion Ltd.
Nonetheless, the company boasts an 82.6% share of the market for mobile operating systems, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International.
This is largely because, as Bill Hester noted in his research article last week, forward operating earnings are heavily determined by extrapolating the most recent year-over-year growth rate for earnings.
Its managers have posted a 15% rise in sales, increased the company's share of the department-store market from 15% to almost 19% (according to Verdict, a retail-research company) and widened its operating margins to almost 16% from 12%.
Still, analysts say its place appears secure, thanks to aggressive moves into Europe and emerging markets, a greater focus on consumer research and an embrace of open operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Symbian and Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Android.
Android is the number one operating system in North America, while Apple overtook Research in Motion in November.
After 23 years of research and development plus 11 years of operating in the marketplace, Liberty Dollar suspended operations.
Android in recent years leapfrogged the iPhone to become the No. 1 operating system for smartphones globally, according to several research firms.
The protection this affords to Android should help the spread of the operating system, which according to Gartner, a research and consulting firm, powered just over half of all smartphones sold in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Lopez Research believes Samsung will extend KNOX to other operating systems that Samsung may support such as Windows and Tizen.
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Dataquest, a San Jose research firm, also predicts big things the operating system, saying Linux will account for almost a quarter of worldwide server appliance revenue by the year 2003.
Death comes to those trying to flank at every market segment, resulting in too many products, consumer confusion, and brand dilution (Nokia -8.0%, Research in Motion -12.6% operating margins reported last quarter).
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In May, Microsoft announced that it had a new research program under way, aimed at developing an operating system and software development tools for robots.
An MoD spokesman said about 40% of this money would be spent on "production and research facilities" with the rest used for "operating and maintaining the AWE".
The company is winding down their smartphone business, where they found they couldn't compete with Apple, Google, and Research in Motion, which dominate the device and operating system markets.
Earlier this year, the company introduced the Treo 700w, running Microsoft 's Windows Mobile operating system, aimed at the enterprise market already hooked on Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices.
Blackberry's owner Research in Motion has said it is co-operating with a police investigation into claims that its BlackBerry Messenger service played a key role in organising the London riots.
Any advancements made by Research in Motion and the release of its BB10 operating system will only increase the pressure on Microsoft to execute, but this could be both good and bad.
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According to research firm IDC, the iPhone and its iOS operating system make up 16.9% of the worldwide smartphone market, coming in behind the cluster of phones running the Android operating system, which account for 68.1% of the world's smartphones.
Meanwhile, Research In Motion is about to introduce its BlackBerry 10 operating system and fresh devices later this month, bringing another updated rival into the smartphone fray.
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The Programme, which includes UNITWIN Chairs that work with other global universities to enrich information flows in UNESCO research areas, currently has over 600 participating institutions, operating in over 100 countries.
Once Orbcomm has 350, 000 units installed--which could happen by the third quarter of next year, says Paul Nisbet, an analyst with JSA Research--it will be covering not just its operating costs but its noncash depreciation charges.
According to one research paper, the revenues generated by the system exceed its operating costs by almost 80 percent.
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