Nokia's Symbian is a nonstarter in the U.S. Software developers and mobile carriers are less interested in the platform because of its lack of visibility in the market.
Google says the software platform ultimately may be used in devices beyond mobile phones.
Class president Tom Siebel says the holy grail in enterprise software is cross-platform, cross-silo monitoring of company results.
Founded in 2002, Skild is a platform and software for running competitions.
Sailfish is a revamped version of the software platform MeeGo, which Nokia dropped in 2011 before laying off Dillon and his team.
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In the same quarter, Google's Android software, which serves as Samsung's operating platform, ran more than seven in ten smartphones around the world.
"The Pentium 4 processor will be the fastest desktop platform in the world, " Yu promised an audience of software and hardware developers assembled here.
In light of the the platform's first major software update rolling out to its devices, we asked about the plans for future releases.
The emergence of the personal cloud service as a third software platform for ISVs to code to, in addition to PCs and mobile devices, for creating the total end user experience.
In recent months, it released new software tools that give search marketers more access to its ad platform, known as Microsoft adCenter, and in July the company acquired AdECN, an advertising exchange company that aims to host a fully transparent, NASDAQ-style marketplace for ads.
In October, the company updated its open software platform that allows other developers to build Dropbox inside their services to better support websites.
Microsoft, Lenovo, Google, and all the other hardware and software brands that rely on the PC platform are in a world of confusion and uncertainty.
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In addition to Wind River's Android software platform and services and support, Clarion is using Wind River FAST to test for device software quality and user experience.
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In addition, software titles that support "cross platform feature" such as LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross Controller Pack, PlayStation, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (Sony Computer Entertainment) are also expected to be released.
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Any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world - Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the Web should be a universal right.
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If successful, at its utmost the business could change not just the way companies sell products and services, but also their creation and production, and servicing in effect, a new type of enterprise software platform.
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While hardware manufacturers like Sony and Vizio have been hard at work making new Google TV devices, the folks in Mountain View have been in the lab cooking up new software features for the platform.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced today that it is in the process of acquiring Ubitexx, a smartphone security and platform management software developer.
It works well when cities open their data to the public or when, as in the case of Wikipedia, an open-source software platform supports open-source content.
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And that is a group of everyone from manufactures of cell phones to software companies trying to understand how they could use this platform in a variety of areas.
Hitting one of Blackberry's key markets in the British Isles, its new smartphone platform (and the Balance software that divides work and personal profiles on the Z10) hasn't passed the security rigors of the UK's Communications Electronics Security Group.
As a platform provider we're trying to make sure our software standards are well-supported in both places.
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The hardware we got to see was a crude prototype built for demo purposes only, but the software platform shows promise and Epson's got a version two Moverio headset in the works -- so perhaps you can see a bit of the future of smart glasses in the video after the break.
Today, Opera Software launched the Opera Mini 7 web browser in a final version for the Android platform.
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In a post on its support forums, Apple said the update to the Java software platform "removes the most common variants" of the Flashback malware.
But Lam believes that the Samsung platform is more power efficient when it uses proprietary software like eye detection, which is constantly working in the background.
The game that paved the way for Doom was released by iD Software 20 years ago, and Bethesda has written it up in handy cross-platform browser form.
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Armed with over 20 years of experience across technology, internet and marketing sectors, Mr. Bradford joined Oracle in the company's acquisition of Vitrue, a leading social enterprise software and marketing platform.
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The newspaper pointed out that Google has faced similar struggles in other consumer electronics introductions, as with its Chrome OS software for laptops and the Android platform for smartphones, meant to rival Apple's products.
And so on the platform and the infrastructure side, we are able to offer to customers the ability to provide the software in a much more standardized configuration, as well as resources to scale up and down on demand.
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