To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
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While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
All of this is possible because of virtualization, a process which increases effectiveness by inserting a level of software between the operating system and the hardware.
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Our school system has standardized on Google for software and Apple for hardware.
The traditional IT model requires system engineering that binds most software to the hardware and does not provide an enterprise suite of functionality or allow for increased flexibility and a governed lifecycle of services.
For the new ordering system, the company developed the software in house and used hardware from International Business Machines Corp.
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In the Mac world, where Apple controls hardware, operating system, software, and all my iOS devices, an upgrade can make them all work better together.
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PCs is not so much the hardware and operating system, but the application software.
"The integration of the hardware, software and services necessary for system-wide security has been slow, " said Warren East, CEO, ARM.
Only the work horses of servers and its operating system software hold their primacy, but with computer hardware shipments in decline, even software profits could be challenged.
Anyway, the hardware and software in the Joint Tactical Radio System must be designed to process each of these distinctive waveforms if it is to communicate with the hundreds of thousands of communications devices already in the force.
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Ubuntu is the most popular operating system to be based on the Linux kernel - the code that lets software and hardware work together.
Hardware and software purchased within the last two years are for the most part bug-free or "Y2K compliant, " although there are so many hardware and software permutations there are no guarantees any system is 100% safe.
Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.
The new system, the EV3, features a lot of improved features in both its hardware and software, with an eye towards improving its use in the classroom and in Lego League competitions.
The challenge with Big Data is that it includes everything from hardware, through operating system, databases, analytics and business intelligence technologies, visualization software, post-graduate level mathematics and statistics, and innovative approaches to business and social problems.
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Corona's software includes an embedded Java operating system and a new variant of the old X-Windows software, which allowed for the creation of hardware-independent graphical user interfaces much like those of Windows or the Macintosh operating system.
After delays and a software preview, RIM BlackBerry finally pulled the wraps off of it's new hardware and operating system that we'd been looking for the end of January to bring.
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Under a system to be introduced later this year, media groups that want to continue to use their own hardware and software will have to order it from approved suppliers, and have it shipped directly to the department and installed by its own IT people.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
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