Three of the big wireless-telecoms firms, Motorola, Ericsson and Siemens, are already working on a standard platform for mobile games to be played on cellphones and other handheld products.
But now, for the first time ever in the wireless ecosystem, a standard platform is emerging: At least a dozen handset makers have brought to market more than 90 different smartphones that run Android, and more than three quarters of those handsets have Qualcomm chips embedded in them, according to a new study by consultancy PRTM.
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Still, Microsoft and Sony think they can go it alone and establish the standard software platform that set-top boxes run on.
That went to William McKinley, who campaigned forthrightly for the gold standard on a GOP platform.
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He wants to create awareness of what problems technology can solve in the world of sports (besides standard business stuff like a statistics platform or a human resource system, both of which are part of the 49ers deal).
We've been given reason to believe that the company will start by decoupling many of Android's standard applications and components from the platform's core and making them downloadable and updatable through the Market, much the same as they've already done with Maps.
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The U.S. government's FIPS 140-2 certification of BlackBerry 10 and the selection of BlackBerry 10 by the German Procurement Office and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) underline how our new platform continues to set the standard for government communications.
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With Pandora 4.0 we have combined years of innovation and learning into one cross-platform app that sets a new standard for mobile personalized radio.
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He said he believed Android would overtake iPhone globally and he predicted the platform could become the de facto standard for a range of consumer electronic devices, such as TVs and home media servers.
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Because the Android platform itself has not been modified, standard Android application software can be used normally.
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There have even been platform discussions on a return the gold standard.
For years, Volvo was the gold standard and probably cemented this practice as a viable marketing platform for brands.
If Now becomes a standard part of the Mountain View lineup, regardless of platform, it could be huge for a company which already dominates the search market.
If Now becomes a standard part of the Mountain View lineup, regardless of platform, it could be huge for the company which already dominates the search market.
Apple keeps raising the standard of their software and driving the software prices on their platform down, leading by example.
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With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.
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Customers will use the platform to receive regular TV programs as well as advanced television services including standard- and high-definition programs, interactive TV, digital video recording and video on demand.
This is standard operating procedure for car-makers, but BMW is taking its wide-reaching platform up a notch.
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Continuuity is a cloud platform with a suite of developer tools that the company says enable any developer with standard skills to become a Big Data Application (BDA) developer.
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