Both phones are based on the new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system software.
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The machines will be designed to configure themselves by installing new operating system software and data automatically.
In January, the company announced a new version of its mobile operating system software called BlackBerry 10 (BB10) .
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This information is subject to change, and software implemented according to this document should be tested with final operating system software and final documentation.
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Hewlett-Packard has finally figured out a viable option for WebOS, the mobile phone operating system software it bought in the ill-fated acquisition of Palm.
By way of demonstration, he was joined on stage by a representative from Applied MetaComputing, which makes operating system software for distributed peer-to-peer applications.
But he proved himself on the consumer-business side by handling the release of Apple's latest Mac operating system software that went on sale this summer.
Research In Motion this morning announced the release of an updated version of the operating system software for the PlayBook tablet: Playbook OS 2.0.
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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.
We focused on 28-year-old Linus Torvalds, a Finn who in 1991 wrote the first version of Linux, operating system software that has become the darling of hard-core computer users.
Long focused in personal computers on supplying operating system software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.
On the department's behalf, he argued that Gates and his colleagues at Microsoft took advantage of their company's monopoly position in operating system software to disadvantage competitors, unfairly tying its Internet Explorer browser to Windows.
Rather than offering a self-sufficient machine with a bulky hard drive and a bolted-on web browser, Google is pushing new operating system software and hardware, in the form of its Cr-48 laptop built to live online.
In the past, Sun sold only proprietary boxes that included its own chips and Solaris, its own operating-system software.
PCs and the latest Microsoft operating-system software handle four-digit dates perfectly well.
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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In May, Microsoft announced that it had a new research program under way, aimed at developing an operating system and software development tools for robots.
Once again, the company has fallen foul of regulators who accuse it of exploiting the monopoly of Windows, its desktop operating-system software, in order to dominate adjacent markets.
In July, Palm Inc. surprised no one when it announced a plan to split into two companies, with a spinoff of the operating-system software unit likely by early 2003.
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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The device's novel tablet controller stayed judgment for a short time, but it didn't last long -- a weak launch lineup, a slow operating system and software delays soured an already judgmental community.
In May, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced that it had a new research program under way, aimed at developing an operating system and software development tools for robots.
This is a bit rich coming from Microsoft, a convicted monopolist in operating-system software, which has also been known to squeeze out smaller competitors, but its anger that it has had to endure years of scrutiny by regulators, while Google has been left alone, is genuine.
In a November 2nd interview, CEO John Kish explained that Pano Logic designed what he calls a zero client endpoint a device with no processors, memory, operating system or software that lets employees get to their corporate applications and data securely via the so-called cloud.
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Rivals are releasing a flood of tablets and phones powered by Google's Android operating system and other software.
These new interfaces will lead to fundamental changes in the way that computer systems are controlled using operating system and general software.
For example, Apple's NetInfo technology is now available on the Linux operating system and Sassafras Software has built AppleTalk networking into its KeyServer product, Bereskin added.
And that's even without the benefit of the billions worth of costs Microsoft's online services business shares with money-spewing divisions built around Microsoft's operating system and business software.
In a Tuesday research note, Mizuho Securities analyst Abhey Lamba predicted Microsoft's closer ties will push more PC makers to produce machines that run on Google's Chrome operating system and other software besides Windows.
Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
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