Interestingly for the European market, Linux is the No. 1 operating system used for Web sites, according to the statistics he cited.
The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
Earlier this week, at the Goldman Sachs tech conference in San Francisco, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein was asked (yet again) about the potential launch of a version of Office for iOS, the operating system used for the Apple iPad and iPhone.
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Android has leapfrogged Apple's iOS mobile operating system to become the most widely used smartphone operating system world-wide.
Neither would identify their manufacturing partners or details like what operating system would be used.
For the most part, they pointed to the iPad regardless of the smartphone operating system they currently used.
The jury verdict is a crushing defeat by proxy for Google, the developer Android operating system that is used by Samsung, and others.
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The Android operating system is also used on the SiriusXM Lynx Portable Radio, the first SiriusXM 2.0 radio that offers new features and delivers an expanded channel lineup via satellite and Internet.
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It continues to be relevant because of preloads on the most-used operating system in the world.
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Android operating system, which is used with an array of device makers and is based on open-source software, so it can be more vulnerable to security breaches.
Investigators have been asking technology companies whether Google is restricting the use of rivals' services on mobile devices using its widely used operating system, Android, the people said.
Analysts say Linux and other open source software pose a growing threat to Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system, which is used on more than 90% of the world's computers.
It owns Android, the most-used mobile operating system for smartphones, and it is also preparing to sell Google Glass, a wearable device for people's faces that it hopes will transform computing.
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For as long as I can remember, storage advertised on a laptop-styled device has always included the space used by the operating system.
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So they optimized the Web site for the operating system and then looked at how people used the iPad compared to how they used a computer with a keyboard and designed the bank site for touch and swipe.
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Today, exploits are used only to obtain root access on a smartphone, but in 2012 we can expect the first attacks where exploits are used to infect the mobile operating system.
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In the fall of that year, 1982, the company demonstrated a revolutionary-looking operating system (to be precise, it was an overlay to Microsofts original operating system, DOS) called VisiOn, which used a mouse and sported nifty little graphics called icons.
One operating system is the traditional hierarchical model which we have used for decades and other is built for agility and change.
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In a preliminary report on the antitrust trial against the software giant, Jackson determined that Microsoft used the dominance of its Windows operating system as a cudgel against competitors, stifling innovation and limiting consumer choice.
These approaches can combine a smaller SSD that stores the operating system and applications and a larger HDD that is used for user data, or a hybrid HDD that has flash memory inside a HDD that is used to store frequently accessed data on the flash with less used data kept available on the HDD.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
MyTurn's operating system was first developed over a decade ago by Geoworks and used in America Online's first dial-up software.
Tests were performed used a Macintosh computer running Apple's operating system (OSX Lion) and Web browser (Safari version 5.1.3) with the default settings enabled.
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In January of 2011, however, Microsoft announced last year that it is working with Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments to put a version of its Windows operating system on computers powered by the ARM-based processors now used in mobile phones and tables.
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On Wednesday, Apple released an update to its iOS operating system for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches that closes two vulnerabilities used by JailbreakMe, a site that surfaced less than two weeks ago with a clever method of breaking the safeguards on iPhones to allow unauthorized apps to be installed.
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Microsoft reached an agreement that will allow its Windows operating system, with which most people are familiar, to work with the open source Linux system used by rival Novell.
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.
When Apple released the latest update to its mobile operating system, iOS 6, many iPhone users were surprised to find the Google Maps application they used to get around was replaced by a flawed Apple version.
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Being wrist-mounted, a watch is always close at hand, which makes it particularly convenient when operating contactless readers on public-transport systems (such as those used by London's Oyster system).
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