Cyras' god box combines the systems' layers into a single rack of software, chips and optical architecture.
It's not the same feeling that you'd get from a traditional separate subwoofer: whereas floor-based box units normally found in other systems tend to rumble from the ground up, the Zeppelin Air's bass feels somewhat more directional, more a part of the overall mix.
On February 8, 2010, Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Trident) completed its acquisition of its television systems and set-top box business lines.
Embedded systems, such as the proposed Venus box, are self-contained, which again means consumers do not require third-party software.
Box has apps on all the major mobile operating systems.
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Kevin Hause, who tracks interactive business for IDC, thinks that it is too soon to say whether Sun will be able to dominate the cable set-top box market, as cable operators are hedging their bets on various operating systems.
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But Joe Tucci concedes that EMC sellers shunned the cheap Clariion box and continued to lead with Symmetrix, failing to recognize that customers wanted cheaper systems.
You can hook it up to a TV or home theater system and then broadcast anything from the box over cables or the ether to simpler Moxi devices connected to TV and audio systems elsewhere in the house.
Also, with the popularity of hosted office systems like Office Live 365 and Google Docs and the collaboration providers like Box.net, DropBox and BaseCamp, fewer attachments with potential viruses are being sent around.
Dell and Gateway have changed the way computers are sold by allowing customers to configure their own systems, by telephone or over the Internet, and simply shipping them the box.
The bean counters like the fact that you can write an application once and then, with little expense and effort, modify it to run on a whole universe of Microsoft systems from the corporate network level (Windows NT) down to a single set-top box (Windows CE).
That means he doesn't put much stock in all the hype at the Consumer Electronics Show around the almighty trend of convergence: systems that can shuttle your movies, songs and photos from the Internet to the set-top box to the PC and back without calling an IT specialist.
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