The Xbox 360 was the strongest hardware platform in the quarter in terms of unit sales.
It gives Google a hardware platform and patent protection for key aspects of its Android operating system.
"By making Agawi CloudPlay accessible via Marvell's hardware platform, we're opening up a world of opportunities for gaming on connected smart devices, " said Rajat Gupta, Agawi's co-founder.
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The hardware platform not only has the ability to placeshift content, making a live content stream available anywhere, but can also receive content and display it on the TV.
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The development of Sensus Connected Touch gained momentum late in 2011 when Volvo Car Group started sourcing a powerful hardware platform with first-class functional and graphical features and the capacity to handle future expansion.
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It is unclear whether there will be an Insider portal for all this content or if other services will just be certified to work on the hardware platform, but we will be finding out much more once the show starts.
Working very closely with Nokia will provide Microsoft a more holistic software-hardware design platform and give Microsoft a fair chance to come up with a decent, iPad-level tablet.
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Through its industry-leading OpenSMA program, uControl brings together all the players who power the Connected Home, integrating and enabling a diverse ecosystem, from Service Providers such as cable and telephone companies to Platform Hardware and Lifestyle Device manufacturers who supply items such as thermostats, lighting controls, touch screen tablets and security sensors.
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Further, will Oracle salespeople be promoting IBM hardware as the primary platform to run these applications and databases?
Yet, the company developed the industry's best hardware-neutral streaming platform and fended off challenges from Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Hulu and Amazon.
The platform includes hardware, software and an API.
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To be fair, Apple too is quick with its own spec comparisons, but because Cupertino controls the entire platform from hardware to OS to APIs to cloud and other services, they have a much greater playing field on which to innovate.
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Those pining for hardware flexibility can make use of the platform's existing "cape" hardware add-ons.
The BUG platform is constantly evolving to include new hardware modules to increase the flexibility of the platform.
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Well, after doing some digging through our own records, we're seeing quite a few instances of hardware running the unannounced Google platform visiting Engadget.
In the meantime, he noted that the company is focused on continuing to secure as much content as possible while expanding its platform through new hardware and OEM licensing with TV manufactures.
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Android is an open platform that invites many hardware manufacturers.
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Either way, unless Apple can open its hardware up to gamers and make its platform more game-friendly, the best Apple can hope for is success in the iOS gaming market.
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Roku will use the new capital to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well as content packages.
Facebook has consistently denied the development of any sort of dedicated Facebook phone hardware, but continues to emphasize its mobile platform presence.
OpenXC platform will transform the car into a plug-and-play platform where interchangeable open-source hardware and software modules that can be quickly and easily customized by developers for specific tasks.
The BUG platform is a collection of discrete hardware modules, Verizon Wireless network-ready 3G modems, and associated software that can be easily combined and re-combined to create new, custom wireless devices.
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Also releasing a Platform Development Kit (PDK) for hardware developers tools you need to port Android to devices.
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Microsoft, Lenovo, Google, and all the other hardware and software brands that rely on the PC platform are in a world of confusion and uncertainty.
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As Zuckerberg said unlike the iPhone and iOS, Android allows Facebook to do whatever it wants on the platform, and that means accessing the hardware as well.
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Many of the units introduce at the show have Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), which support hardware encryption.
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Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
"So instead of building a phone, which seems like a desperate move, Facebook should partner with every operating system and carrier and hardware maker it can to try to embed this social platform within every mobile platform, " Blodget said.
Dowling said Pure Networks is sharing its APIs with partners like AOL and D-Link so they can write both agents and applications that leverage the Network Magic platform to the enhance the value of their hardware and software offerings.
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In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers.
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