Now iOS users can wirelessly print emails, web pages, photos, and more to their existing printer without needing to install any software or device drivers.
By providing this secure environment for multiple silicon, software and device manufacturing partners, the joint venture will enable greater operational efficiency across the ecosystem and the industry as a whole.
While the two Silicon Valley companies were once on good terms, they began encroaching on one another's turf in recent years and are now fighting to take the lead in the fast-growing mobile software and device market.
The software is a version of its embedded device software, overlaid with the Windows Media Center interface, with media streaming and remote-control capabilities.
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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To make every application on every Apple device act and feel like every other application on every Apple device, and to have the software of every Apple device echo the hardware design it runs on.
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Google's Android mobile-device software, which powers hundreds of different devices, supports this technology.
Secure boot and authenticating the software on the device are good features but neither are new to the industry.
We had a closet full of more than 100 phones and were building our software pretty much device by device.
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The software powering the device is built on the open-source Linux kernel and the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, Rathakrishnan says.
The company has previously said Android phones are the work of manufacturers and carriers and that it merely provides the device software.
Run a little piece of software and the device will show up as another drive, as if it was internal or connected via USB.
They were hardware manufacturers with very little software in the device.
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If your phone starts behaving strangely, or malfunctioning, or you receive unusual charges on your bill, look for and get rid of bogus software on your device.
Under Mr. Page, Google is expected to focus on its graphical online-ad initiatives, video site YouTube and its Android mobile device software, people familiar with the matter said.
If not, those decisions will get harder: BlackBerry may need to focus on licensing its BB10 software to other device manufacturers, as CEO Thorsten Heins hinted at earlier this month.
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Then, using "augmented reality" technology from Total Immersion Software, the device translated the Mandarin characters on the sign into English, and in real time, super-imposed the characters on the device screen with English translations.
Kin Studio mimics many of the user experience paradigms of the Kin's on-device software, including access to The Spot and a live connection to your social networks that allows you to send out unified status updates from your browser.
Key to handset hacking, he said, was installing software on a device either by getting physical access to the mobile, tricking its owner into downloading a booby-trapped application or making them visit a page that inserts malware onto a device.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
In producing applications for mobile phones, independent software developers historically have faced a big challenge: how to write software that works across phones without buying every device and testing their software on it.
These alternate designs have the potential to allow malware on the device to intercept the card number before it is encrypted by the software running on the mobile device.
Software written for the device will be made available in a dedicated app store.
Somewhere along the way we (consumers) were forgotten and the device or software became all important.
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Samsung also offers continuous software upgrades for the device, enhancing user experiences and allowing a life extraordinary.
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This is really about getting the software right for this device, then getting it right for other forms.
For instance, Gartner predicts that two-thirds of enterprises will have rolled out mobile device management software by 2017.
He cites an unnamed enterprise customer that deployed 5, 000 iPads to its employees along with mobile device management software.
The new mobile device management software is an evolved version of the BES that is compatible with iOS and Android platforms as well.
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Although the software supposedly lets the device call out for mail as often as every 15 minutes, it never did so in my tests.
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