This includes Valve itself, although the company has never before been involved in the hardware market.
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It marks Microsoft's entry into the PC hardware market, posing competition to other computer manufacturers.
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Oracle entered the storage hardware market with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January last year.
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Supporters of the cloud-based model claim it is the best way to deal with an ever-changing hardware market.
Consequently, Japanese electronics manufacturers lost the ripest global technology-hardware market of the past decade, and perhaps the next decade as well.
Through Exadata, Oracle has also started to become a meaningful player in the hardware market following its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in early 2010.
Higher profitability and revenue growth gives Oracle an edge over competitors SAP, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the software and hardware market.
Microsoft is struggling to reassert its dominance in the computer software and hardware market, but one of its biggest success stories of recent years has undoubtedly been the Kinect camera.
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Those of you following the feud between Acer and Microsoft may remember last August, when Acer leveled criticism at the Windows 8 creator regarding their entry into the hardware market.
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Those companies and others that run the rival Microsoft Pocket software, meanwhile, have cut Palm's share of the revenue in the hardware market from 71% to 46% since 2000 and put its pricing on the defensive.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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While we estimate the total storage hardware market in terms of total gigabytes sold will increase from 23 billion to 174 billion by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members expect an increase from 31 billion to 185 billion during the same period.
Likewise, that company has decided to enter the hardware market hoping that its Surface tablet can make a meaningful dent where its proud partners in Hewlett-Packard and Dell have failed speaks to just how committed Microsoft is in ensuring that its fate is in its own hands.
The object of Deltacloud is to open up competition and choice in the cloud market, just as Red Hat Linux did in the hardware market, eliminating the switching cost of investing in a new stack of proprietary offerings and allowing cloud users to invest the savings into conducting application development that truly differentiates them.
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Chris Jones, Canalys VP and Principal Analyst, added, 'Microsoft has upset some partners by bringing its own hardware to market.
While we will still see advances in screens, processors and other hardware features, market differentiation will increasingly be created in the right time experiences that mobile can provide.
Panasonic already has tru2way hardware on the market and the system is live in a few cities with major rollouts planned for July 1 -- so what's the holdup here?
Second, the Center strongly disagrees with the notion that the job of dismantling the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex will be advanced by facilitating its efforts to market hardware to customers outside the former Soviet bloc.
Besides that they will have as partner the best hardware maker on market with strong presence on developing markets wich Apple and Google has not reached yet and the largest mobile marketshare for delivering services like search, ads and social media.
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These "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray titles-paired with the native 4K titles for Sony's 4K video distribution service, which is planned to be launched in summer 2013 in the US-demonstrate Sony Pictures' holistic commitment to 4K and to the launch of this exciting new hardware into the market.
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Intel ( INTC) has long been known as a dominant hardware producer, with market share for its processors dwarfing that of the competition.
But it won't take into account the business lost by the dry-cleaners in the unit next door, which is shuttered and dark - along with the bakery, the yoga centre, the hardware store and the market located nearby.
It has just 4% market share, and its closest hardware partner, Nokia, has 8.2% market share.
While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
Leap Motion, the company behind the revolutionary motion-control software and hardware, is coming to market.
Also, I think the market realizes the hardware is not where the battle is but the software.
Apple is primarily in the hardware business, yet its market value is roughly three times that of IBM.
We often focus on market share for hardware, but cloud media services increasingly dictate our lives after the devices have reached our bags and pockets.
Dell, meanwhile, has made great strides in retuning its hardware business toward the enterprise market but continues to wrestle with how to improve the performance of its consumer business, and could face the same sort of disruptive transformation HP is now undergoing.
Samsung continues its leadership in the LED Smart TV market by integrating new hardware with spectacularly designed televisions to provide the finest viewing experience available.
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