There are highly optimized performance bundles, highly optimized low-power bundles and integrated hardware-software-service bundles.
Gesture UI is a combination hardware-software prototype that the Japanese carrier is showing at this year's CEATEC showcase in Japan.
The hardware-software synergy needed for appliances plays to their strengths.
SIM2 and Entertainment Experience, which heretofore focused on unique digital media products for the commercial cinema, education, and hi-tech display market spaces, announce that they will begin offering a hardware-software content solution-including pre-loaded, fully licensed motion picture content-that delivers better-than-HD digital video performance to home buffs.
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Going forward, the hardest hit companies will likely be those whose offerings are strongly concentrated in high-performance hardware or software, rather than nitty-gritty tasks like outsourcing data centers or security and compliance spending.
He waded back into the decimated semiconductor, hardware and systems-software industries he had abandoned a year earlier.
At Oracle, the strategy is all about designing IP-rich hardware and software that are engineered from the gound up to work together, says Juan Loaiza, Oracle senior vice-president for systems technologies.
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They say it will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
Over the past year the intermittently profitable Santa Clara, California computer maker has moved from quoting traditional pricing-per processor for hardware, per user for software-toward a surfeit of new choices.
Over the past year the intermittently profitable Santa Clara, Calif. computer maker has moved from quoting traditional pricing--per processor for hardware, per user for software--toward a surfeit of new choices.
In investor jargon, it therefore has huge operating leverage: the initial start-up costs for hardware and software were high, but since break-even each new client's revenues have been almost pure profit.
Lucent and Nortel provide nearly all the call-routing hardware and software in North America.
The meat-based hardware and software of the brain are far more obscurely interrelated.
Core components use resilient industry-standard hardware and software technologies, designed from the outset to root out potential causes of downtime before they do damage.
Of course, that seems like the goal of every old-line hardware and software giant who is trying to move to the world of cloud computing.
Today, I am announcing changes that will encourage even more collaboration between our world-class hardware, software and services teams at all levels of our company.
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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.
Parents who want to give each of their kids a tablet, or smartphone newcomers to whom the Nexus 4's price means avoiding two-year-old hardware and software, may not have much choice.
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The reason is that they are spurring new ideas and pushing Apple to re-imagine hardware and software in a space that has been much more stable and less revolutionary over the past five years.
Boy Genius Report claims it's heard from one of its "solid Apple sources" that iPhone 3, 2 (seen previously in iOS code) has hit "AP testing phase, " which reportedly means final hardware and near-final software.
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H-P said Tuesday that Autonomy, before it was acquired, had mischaracterized some sales of low-margin hardware as software and had recognized some deals with partners as revenue, even when a customer never bought the product.
Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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But two-dozen software, hardware and life science companies from Mexico had a coming-out party of sorts in Silicon Valley this week.
Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology.
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Wang believes open-source hardware will follow the popularity of open-source software, as people want to create more physical things.
The knock-on effect from consumers and businesses who are buying less software and hardware because cash-strapped banks are reluctant to lend them money will be far larger.
It then allegedly turned around and booked those hardware sales as high-margin software sales.
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Even if Wall Street shifts its view on Apple as a software-hardware hybrid, however, the company's woes aren't over.
Now it is coming for less-proprietary computer hardware and software itself.
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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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