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Oracle signs Solaris deals with HP and Dell
ZDNet UK
Oracle has announced that HP and Dell are to certify and resell the Oracle Solaris operating system, ...
Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systemsBusinessWeek
Dell and HP to Certify and Resell All Three Oracle Operating Systems -- Oracle ...MarketWatch (press release)
Oracle and HP make a deal for Solaris on ProLiantsRegister
Mobile Computing News -ChannelWeb
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CNET (blog)

All fingers to be on RIM's new operating system when it's expected to debut
Winnipeg Free Press
MONTREAL - Research In Motion may be one of the world's top five mobile phone makers, but the BlackBerry smartphone's new operating system expected next ...
RIM plans to counter Apple's iPad with 'Blackpad' in NovemberApple Insider
10 Reasons Why Apple Should Be Worried About RIM's BlackBerry 6BlackBerry Rocks! (blog)
RIM Said to Plan Tablet for November to Take on Apple's IPadBloomberg
Toronto Star -Phone Plus (blog) -Computerworld
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Kansas City Star

Motorola profit beats estimates, powered by Android
Los Angeles Times
Demand for its Droid phones, which run on the Google operating system, fuels a surge in net income. Motorola Inc., the US mobile-phone maker, ...
HTC, with Android, Smashes Q2 EstimateseWeek
Motorola rings up sharply higher net profitAFP
Droid Sales Boost Motorola ProfitsAll Things Digital (blog)
CIO Today -TopNews Arab Emirates -Morning City
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TrustedReviews

Microsoft Tablets Could Cannibalize Windows PCs: Analyst
eWeek
According to one analyst, Microsoft's choice to go with its operating system intended for desktops and notebooks, as opposed to its upcoming Windows Phone 7 ...
Ballmer: The Windows 7 Tablet Will Have Its DayE-Commerce Times
Steve Ballmer on the iPad: The transcriptFortune
Microsoft's Windows 7 iPad is "coming soon" (and PsD)Computerworld (blog)
Minyanville.com -Wall Street Journal -Register
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TFTS (blog)

Samsung to introduce Android tablet this quarter
Afterdawn.com
Samsung has said it will introduce a tablet this quarter running Google's Android operating system, joining the stables of tech firms releasing tablets by ...
Samsung Elec to introduce Android-based tablet in Q3Reuters
Android Update for Galaxy S LeakedMoby1 (blog)
Samsung: Android 2.2 Froyo For Galaxy S Coming At The End of SeptemberErictric
Inquirer -DailyFinance -Sawf News
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Operating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An operating system (OS) is a set of system software programs in a computer that regulate the ways application software programs use the computer hardware and the ways that users ...

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MUSIC/SP; an operating system developed for the S/370, running normally under VM; SkyOS; commercial desktop OS for PCs; TSX-32; a 32-bit operating system for x86 platform.

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HowStuffWorks "How Operating Systems Work"
The operating system controls your computer's tasks and manages system resources to optimize performance. Learn how your operating system works.

operating system: Information from Answers.com
operating system The computer's master control program. When the computer is turned on, a small 'boot program' loads the operating system

Computer Operating Systems
An operating system, or OS, is a software program that enables the computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software. Without a computer operating system, a ...

The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
Comprehensive information and resources about the Linux Operating System.

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operating system n. Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to

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An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as OS) is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a ...