Flame, a backdoor Windows trojan, doesn't just sniff and steal nearby network traffic info -- it uses your computer's hardware against you.
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That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.
Sony even admits that the Double Density CD-ROM is a product of the moment that will become about as useful a piece of computer hardware as grandma's sewing machine as soon as read-write capable DVDs are widely available.
The games are just getting more and more intense - Doom 3 is just incredible - it's going to be very intense for the computer hardware to run it.
Competition between the two is expected to heat up now that Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems has put it in the computer hardware business.
It marks Microsoft's entry into the PC hardware market, posing competition to other computer manufacturers.
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On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.
IBM's services arm is keeping the hardware part of the company afloat: anyone can make a computer, but the ability to help a company use it is worth paying extra for.
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This chart compares the performance of 12 VMs. Except for Apple Computer's Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ), all of the JVMs were tested on the same hardware and with the same Java application code.
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While unit sales of most of Apple's computer lines were down in the fourth quarter of 2002, sales in its "peripheral and other hardware" category, into which the iPod falls, grew by more than 50% versus the year-ago quarter.
The computer industry is split down the middle over support for Microsoft, with many hardware makers backing the company's campaign against the government, while many rival software firms are calling for a break-up.
At the recent unveiling of a tablet computer by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, whose company is doing the best job of following Apple's lead in combining hardware, software, content and services in an easy-to-use bundle, there were several swipes at Apple.
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