After all, like Wi-Fi, once you get beyond the miniscule hardware cost of the phone itself, it costs close to absolutely nothing per call.
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First, Web innovators, such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have developed a massively scalable storage and compute architecture to manage Big Data: Hadoop, which parallelizes large data sets across low-cost commodity hardware for easy scale and dramatically reducing the cost of petabyte environments.
People familiar with the investigation said that the team found that for at least two years, Autonomy booked sales of low-margin hardware products as software and would label the cost of that hardware as marketing or other expenses, which made products appear faster growing and more profitable than they really were.
Will the cost of hardware ever be so painfully high that Cook becomes tempted to get Apple out of the hardware business?
First, the cost of hardware in a prototype like this is not a good predictor of the costs of the eventual finished product.
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More important, HTML5 removes a layer of software from Android, said Mr. Sullivan, and thus drives down the cost of hardware needed to run it.
Of course, the price of the lost hardware is the smallest cost, with the biggest ones being lost IP and the costs of complying with mandatory data breach reporting regulations.
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Because of the advanced architecture of PowerVR Series5XT, Imagination is in a rare position, amongst today's mobile GPU providers, of being able to offer today some of the new and advanced features expected from future GPUs on Imagination's current Series5XT GPU technology, through API extensions without any hardware changes or additional cost.
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Compare the cost of keeping and maintaining hardware and software for test platforms locally, and the cost of leveraging PaaS for testing.
If hardware lasts two years and if, let's say, electricity and other overhead cost as much as the hardware, Amazon would have a gross margin of 45%, better than what it gets on books.
All three, however, work with utilities, who subsidize all or part of the cost of the hardware and software.
You would pay more up front for the hardware, but then the cost of the individual books would be really cheap, right?
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This rapid turnover creates rapid replacement costs and raises questions about how to decommission and dispose of old hardware, which can also cost money.
Rather than pay for the full fix itself, which requires a new circuit board for every affected lock, Onity has asked its hotel customers to cover the cost of those hardware replacements.
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According to Canalys analysts, if Windows 8 is to be a success, Microsoft will have to subsidize at least some of the extra cost that touchscreen hardware will add to a new Windows 8 PC.
From complex accounting systems to the stuff that tracks employee performance, compensation and inventories, he'll bring it all together and run it for customers in his data centers, saving them the headache and upfront cost of buying hardware from Ellison's shop, HP, Dell or IBM.
The Android approach of coding an operating system and then providing it at a low cost so that hardware manufacturers would drive users towards Google services might have looked attractive on paper, but it would not reach a billion users without a huge amount of time and effort on the part of Facebook.
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The cost of the expensive hardware is spread across all the customers who use the vehicle.
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"They have figured out that for a fraction of the cost of buying new hardware, they can sponsor us to find a solution in open source, " he said.
The object of Deltacloud is to open up competition and choice in the cloud market, just as Red Hat Linux did in the hardware market, eliminating the switching cost of investing in a new stack of proprietary offerings and allowing cloud users to invest the savings into conducting application development that truly differentiates them.
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Analysts have said the shift to such hardware will help cut down on the cost to build the device.
There is a huge amount of cost associated with keeping extra hardware and software around just for testing purposes.
While this decision is certainly tempered by the needs of the company, the scale up approach will help enterprises accurately prepare for their current Big Data needs by buying limited hardware and add more racks in a cost-effective manner as data needs increase.
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Hardware was just a small part of the cost, he said, while network connectivity, applications and support were the real expenses.
Could RIM be planning to shut its hardware production capabilities in favor of partnering with lower cost Asian manufacturers?
The only hardware store in Harrison is selling replacement fenceposts at cost, but even that break won't help ranchers who can't afford to feed their catle.
Total Cost of Ownership including not only software hardware installation and maintenance costs, but also including recommended counterparts required to assemble a best of breed solution stack.
The gross profit margins (revenue minus the cost of goods sold) at other hardware makers have collapsed to commodity levels of 30%, but Cisco's have climbed to 70%.
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