It gives Google a hardware platform and patent protection for key aspects of its Android operating system.
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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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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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.
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.
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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Evangelho says that a used games restriction would drive gamers to another platform, but argues that because companies lose money on hardware, those cheap gamers would actually become a financial burden.
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"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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In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers.
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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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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At the same time, it will probably lose a deal of its cross-platform games when AAA developers start to produce for hardware that the Wii U may not be able to compete with.
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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Traditional PC gamers are used to paying a premium for computing power and the ability to constantly update and modify their hardware while consoles have historically attracted people looking for a cheaper, simpler and more stable platform on which to play games (the current generation of consoles have been around for six to seven years).
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With a feature-rich processor, the BeagleBone computer platform allows developers to fully utilize the technology within a full-featured, open hardware Linux development kit.
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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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The hardware we got to see was a crude prototype built for demo purposes only, but the software platform shows promise and Epson's got a version two Moverio headset in the works -- so perhaps you can see a bit of the future of smart glasses in the video after the break.
VMware aspires to be for data centers what Microsoft is for PCs, both providing a software platform to run web applications (like, for example, Google Docs) and also managing the hardware that powers them.
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