After launching its system to great fanfare in 2004 with JCDecaux, a French outdoor-advertising company, Tesco failed to win many advertisers and almost pulled the plug on the whole project.
MBNA, a huge credit-card issuer, is launching such a system with Orbiscom, an Irish software supplier.
But after parting ways with the software company that developed the operating systems for successful programs like Boston and London, PBSC developed a new operating system before launching the New York, Chicago and Chattanooga, Tenn.
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But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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This month Cohen will add the City of Boston, which is launching a 600-bike system (sponsored in part by athletic-shoe maker New Balance).
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And this is exactly what Alibaba just did by launching Aliyun, a mobile operating system based on Android and tailored for the Chinese market.
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Adam Baker of Surrey Satellite Technology, a British firm, knows a great deal about the economics of launching the kind of small satellites that Virgin's system might put into orbit.
Marvell's powerful HD media system-on-chip platform offers quick application launching, award-winning video performance and high-resolution graphics-all within the Android TV itself and at affordable costs, without the burden of an expensive gaming console.
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America is planning to improve its satellite-navigation system further: next year, it will start launching a second generation of GPS satellites, which will offer greater accuracy for civilian users and, for military purposes, greater protection against the signal being jammed by an enemy.
Yet though most of the Philippines' problems stem from its feeble tax-collection system, Mrs Arroyo has tried to tame the deficit by launching an austerity programme.
He says BlackBerry 10 is launching with the largest-ever catalog of apps for a new phone operating system.
On the topic of software, we've got to hand it to Lenovo for understanding that digging through Win 7's menus with a finger can be more than frustrating -- its SimpleTap application provides shortcuts to system controls, which is helpful for quickly turning down the volume or launching a program or website.
The system is being used in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands - and is launching in the UK and US this month.
The new BlackBerry 10 operating system has a lot of unique characteristics including a very different way of getting around and launching apps.
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When the iPhone 5 and the latest mobile operating system were launched in September, they came without Google Maps, as Apple set about launching its own mapping ecosystem.
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