What is more, tablets are less about hardware than about the software and services that run on them.
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After several entrepreneurial efforts, Pipkin, who knew little about hardware or software, started Belkin in 1983 in a two car garage in Southern California with the goal of riding the PC craze.
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This may also just prove that Nintendo is serious when they say they don't care about the hardware as much as they do about the gaming experience.
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They only care about the hardware as a conduit for buying their products and services.
There doesn't seem to be much that's exceptional or new about the hardware itself beyond the Facebook makeover.
"We need to think about deployment as creatively as we thought about the hardware and the software, " says Jepsen.
The references to the new iPhone and iOS 7 did not reveal any clues about new hardware or software features.
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Between the sci-fi future of Project Glass and this intriguing new Pixel, I find myself getting more and more excited about Google hardware.
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Why is Microsoft being so stringent about WP7 hardware and software?
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The focus of our business is not about the hardware.
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The documents don't tell us anything about what hardware will be found inside either machine, but as Laptop Reviews note, included diagrams do hint at what they might look like.
The process of designing and manufacturing the Pixel will have taught Google a lot about the hardware business - and with products like Google Glass on the horizon, that knowledge could prove very useful.
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While we know for sure that Steve is going to show off a "feature-complete" version of Leopard at this year's WWDC, and we wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone got some quality time on stage as well, we haven't really heard anything solid about any hardware revisions taking place next month.
The Internet began to even things out a bit, and the payment landscape became less about being able to integrate the hardware and more about online access to the right software for functions like inventory and accounting.
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When his colleagues contemplated project costs, they thought about development costs, hardware costs and software costs, but not about support and maintenance costs after the technology is implemented, for instance.
We will find out about all of the actual hardware details tomorrow, and about whatever other new products Apple may be releasing.
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More than anything else, the RAZR line is about design and hardware -- the HD series is no different.
Citing concerns about softening tech hardware end demand, RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani this morning turned cautious on the IT supply chain, downgrading shares of the contract electronics manufacturers Benchmark Electronics and Sanmina, and reducing estimates and price targets for various other stocks.
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It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.
"While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece of hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking, " he wrote.
Meanwhile, the research firm notes that Apple hardware is single-handedly keeping PC hardware sales about the flat line.
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There was a lot of talk earlier this year about the power of hardware driving wireless carrier loyalty.
TBS's main motive is to find out more both about European consumers and about the digital communications hardware that is Philips's stock-in-trade.
We also have forms for users to submit feedback, and we engage these users to learn about their expectations from hardware and software.
In the U.S., which spends about six times as much on supercomputers as China, the software budget equals about 30% of hardware spending, and computer specialists say even that level isn't sufficient.
Rather, they keep talking about getting into the hardware game, teasing anything from a new console, to a redesign of the mouse and keyboard, to even a virtual reality headset which we saw them show recently.
Oh, and about Microsoft's hardware partners.
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