The FCC sometimes gets a peek at hardware and reveals nothing but a model number to hint at what's passed through its labyrinth.
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Previous positions include senior analyst at AMR Research (now Gartner), marketing and business development at Cincom Systems, Ingram Micro, a SaaS start-up and at hardware companies.
The key maker works at a hardware store across the street from the gym.
Looking at iOS hardware and software separately, one might think they were produced by different companies.
Mike Lodato, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Network Hardware Resale, a Santa Barbara, Calif.
They could be members of your church or synagogue or customers at the hardware store you manage.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is hinting at additional hardware releases in 2013 and beyond.
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The folks at Hot Hardware weren't totally stoked on the setup process, but loved the screen's performance and flexibility.
About 100 staff at Liverpool hardware store Rapid have been made redundant after administrators confirmed it would not reopen.
And the Xbox is merely Microsoft's first stab at manufacturing hardware that runs its own software and online services.
Finally we've been given a chance to touch it, see it action and peek at the hardware it'll be running on.
Al Terrile, a 69-year-old retired Southport resident, stocked up on batteries, a box of firewood and a light at the hardware store.
By and large, we're looking at identical hardware (and mostly identical software) as our review unit from back in March, so we'll be brief.
The gross profit margins (revenue minus the cost of goods sold) at other hardware makers have collapsed to commodity levels of 30%, but Cisco's have climbed to 70%.
Apple representatives confirmed to Engadget that enabling AWS is done at the hardware level and is not something that can be attained via a software patch or download.
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The folks over at Hot Hardware were able to spend a bit of quality time with this beast, but unlike many of Lenovo's machines, this one wasn't exactly an easy sell.
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The critics over at Hot Hardware noted that while it won't take advantage of SATA 6Gbps, it doesn't "suffer from a split personality, " meaning that performance was shockingly consistent in use.
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"I just think the whole attitude in life today is that people want more time off, " says Donald Schuman, vice president of information services at Ace Hardware Corp. in Oak Brook, Ill.
These businesses, despite representing some of the highest earning taxpayers in America, get lumped in with Al down at the hardware store simply because of the flow-through nature of their business structure.
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Insisting on the latter way of thinking has always been at the root of hardware and system development at Nintendo.
If Microsoft can succeed at producing its own videogame hardware and is widely rumored to be working on its own branded portable media player, could it succeed at, say, its own PC hardware -- that is, going beyond the keyboards and mice that it sells very successfully today?
There's little new hardware at Macworld, but that's probably a good thing: No one's buying anyway.
For one thing, Autonomy, as HP tells it, was selling some hardware at a loss.
Jack Dorsey, Square cofounder and CEO, unveiled the new hardware at an event in San Francisco Tuesday.
"We really believe at Oculus that hardware is really only as good as the content it runs, " Mitchell explains.
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Apple has been making the bulk of its profits by selling its hardware at 2-3 times its production costs.
"They're coming in buying shovels, ice melts and sleds, " said Atton Shipman, who works at Back Bay Hardware in Boston.
But the surprise may not be anything as ground-breaking as Google Glass, perhaps not even much in the way of hardware at all.
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