To stay on top, operating system vendors implement strategies that lock consumers in.
The first half of 2011 has seen amazing levels of consolidation in the digital storage industry, from individual storage device manufacturers to storage system vendors.
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The Intel Learning Series brings together a strong ecosystem of PC manufacturers, operating system vendors, education service providers, content and software providers to deliver a complete, end-to-end education solution.
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It recommends that policymakers consider "steps that would increase the exposure of software and system vendors and system operators to liability for system breaches" as an incentive to face up to security issues instead of ducking their costs.
Splashtop also partners with mobile device management (MDM) vendors, system integrators, security networking vendors, and service providers to deliver flexible SaaS and on-premise solutions for businesses.
So employers need to set up their own reporting system or contract with vendors like Redline, whether they are covered under Sarbanes-Oxley or not.
In our eco-system, the intersection between vendors and partners on one side and customer and revenue-producing partners on the other side.
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Big Blue spokesperson Bob Page warns that IT managers can expect system prices from all of the vendors to be high in the introduction phase.
They need to market it and learn to set elastic pricing and woo clients and negotiate with vendors and handle the tax system.
For one thing, Microsoft beat up on Palm the same way it took out many of its competitors in the desktop OS space: by putting pressure on hardware vendors to use its operating system, and offering it at a price they couldn't refuse.
In other words, if you choose to change cloud vendors or move to an offline system how do you get your data back?
The way we promote our eco-system is to breathe awareness of our potential vendors, places where you could optimize product offerings with partners and vendors.
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BizRate was a rating system that allowed customers to rate their experience with vendors and share it with other customers.
Bhatia says that TigerText is a targeted solution that can accommodate the devices that doctors and other workers want to use, and is also far less expensive than large-scale Hospital Information Management System software or integrated tablet-software solutions from vendors like Cisco or Alcatel.
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That's why most non-Intel hardware vendors originally chose Unix for their default operating system.
The growth of the free operating system, Linux, is leading all the big Unix vendors to revise their pricing.
Most of these vendors chose Unix because it began as a free operating system with open source.
But other companies, such as units of United Technologies and other vendors, contribute to the plane's extensive electrical system.
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With one-click glimpses into competing operating systems like Windows and Ubuntu, the vendors woo Mac users to fire up a new operating system--at least temporarily.
As a business model, there is a lot of inefficiency built into the supply chain and replenishment process for these street vendors, since they reside a few notches down in the distribution system from the regular brick and mortar merchants with whom they compete.
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Still, that has not deterred other vendors from experimenting, or at least considering the open-source operating system, as multiple reports of Firefox, Sailfish, and Tizen plan to release new Linux-based experiences in the future.
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Kim arrived in 2004 and surveyed laptop computer customers and found that their satisfaction was greater if they had a Centrino system, even if they had the same functionality in a laptop with parts from other vendors, like archrival Advanced Micro Devices.
Kim arrived in 2004 and surveyed laptop computer customers and found that their satisfaction was greater if they had a Centrino system, even if they had the same functionality in a laptop with parts from other vendors, like archrival Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ).
In fact, Cisco is the only networking vendor to make its lawful intercept architecture public, a move that should be applauded given that other vendors keep theirs secret to avoid exactly the sort of scrutiny that Cross has applied to the system.
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