Today's microprocessors and memory chips depend on keeping electrons in tiny boxes--microscopic Leyden jars.
Around her are shelves packed with gilt bronze boxes--many in the form of churches--and silver monstrances.
Here was a narrowly focused outfit -- Compaq, a maker and seller of computer boxes -- swallowing a more complex operation.
The early teletext decoders consisted of large metal boxes - wire-wrapped prototypes.
Here was a narrowly focused outfit -- Compaq, a maker and seller of computer boxes -- swallowing an older and more complex operation.
Each polling station will have at least two boxes -- one for ballots for the National Assembly, one for ballots for the provincial council.
Switch boxes and lock-and-latch boxes as well as nine different build-it-yourself musical instruments that are sure to inspire a whole houseful of racket, make up this fine tome.
Other cable companies like Time Warner Cable are said to be interested in RDK hardware, which could spur the development of new and better set-top boxes -- we can hope, can't we?
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Akamai engineers in Cambridge, Mass. are constantly preparing newer, faster servers the size of pizza boxes--cheap off-the-shelf machines embedded with special Akamai DNA--and deploying them to the farthest edges of the network.
Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.
Every day there is a choice of three bento boxes -- vegetarian, fish or meat -- each including a protein, grain and salad, and the meat-free option often includes deliciously prepared tofu alongside quinoa or barley.
On October 28, the company announced that BetaResearch, a German digital television company, will use its Java-based operating system in DTV products like set-top boxes-- five million in total over the next five years.
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
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Buffeted by the building boom, the increasingly generic glass boxes-- the sort that dominate certain sweeps of Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan--came to seem ubiquitous, even inescapable, guaranteeing their place in history and serial rejection by factions all the way from the Supreme Soviet to the postmodernists.
Not in a mimsy, cottages-and-window-boxes kind of way, but with a craggy handsomeness that stops you in your tracks.
She was kept in the 6 by 12-foot storage facility, which Hall remembers was stacked with half-opened boxes with China-type dishes inside.
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The hardware, which ships on a pallet, includes 4-foot-high steel boxes with a built-in desk that sports a rubberized keyboard and rollerball mouse.
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In the centre, the architecture ranges from neo-Baroque, turn-of-the-century mansions to sporadic Soviet-built boxes losing their tiles.
The odd-shaped boxes on down-town buildings that remind you of air-raid sirens are the antennas.
Set-top boxes and media-extender devices that broadcast high-def video signals to TVs will also be sought out at the show.
Set-top boxes allow cable-TV subscribers to surf the Internet from their sofas.
And, yet again, Opera takes these apps across devices, bringing games, news, video and audio apps to TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
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Its chips are in products from set-top boxes to X-ray machines.
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Set-top and over-the-top boxes are gaining audience, and Nielsen just announced that they are going to adjust their definition of TV viewing to account for eyeballs glued to new screens and access methods.
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From California to Virginia, these slick boxes must compete against thousands of year-old boxes from hundreds of dot-com liquidation sales.
"They did play very well and were probably a bit unlucky or not decisive maybe in the two boxes - the defensive box and the offensive box - where you need to be very clinical, " added Di Matteo of the Baggies' relegation.
Google has to push Android onto every TV device, including the Motorola set-top-boxes it is about to own.
This month, the report honed in on a species of brand hijacking that clogs in-boxes daily: spam e-mails hawking name-brand discount drugs.
Today, cable systems have to provide costly set-top boxes equipped with high-capacity hard drives to every new customer that signs up for DVR service.
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