The Electric Defender retains the four-wheel-drive hardware and differential lock of the standard Defender.
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Nintendo is counting on these games and third-party titles to drive hardware sales after a somewhat disappointing launch of the new Wii U console.
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The ensuing commodification of the hardware however endangers the traditional business model of networking vendors such as Juniper that have relied on hardware complexity to drive margins.
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Having two very competitive players at the top of their game is important to drive hardware forward, and the positive effects of that can be seen in the Galaxy S4 hardware announced by Samsung this week.
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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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When data confidentiality is required, the drive uses hardware in the US Government AES-validated Marvell controller to provide secure 256-bit full-drive encryption.
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Experimenters at the Phoronix forums have found that Chrome 21 has support for the Stage 3D hardware acceleration needed to drive Epic Games' Flash conversion of UE3.
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"Warner Bros. has produced in both high-definition formats in an effort to provide consumer choice, foster mainstream adoption and drive down hardware prices, " said Jeff Bewkes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner Inc.
"You're going to actually get a chance to actually drive flight hardware on another planet, " said Bill Nye, a children's science show host on U.S. public television and a member of Planetary Society's board, who was also present for the announcement.
Intel and Facebook have long been technology collaboration partners on hardware and software optimizations to drive more efficiency and scale for Facebook data centers.
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One big shift for Nintendo with the launch of the 3DS is that it is working more closely with outside software developers, rather than relying mostly on popular in-house games to drive the initial hardware sales.
As Google starts to drive meaningful revenue from hardware, including its Nexus line of smartphones and tablets, anything out of the Motorola division will be heavily scrutinized.
It's not good enough to just pump out lusty hardware like the Walkman in order to drive generous profit streams.
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Which will drive more demand for cheaper hardware, dooming the manufacturers to a feedback loop of smaller margins and cut-throat competition as they continue to gift Google with millions active users.
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Network operators will be playing their part, keen to make sure there is more competition in the market to drive down the price of the hardware.
On the hardware side there is of course the Xbox 360 drive, as well as Toshiba's HD-A1 and HD-XA1 players already on shelves.
Oracle also announced plans to launch 4 new hardware products by Sun, which will help it drive sales of its database and middleware software, which is optimized for the new SPARC super clusters.
Other changes are out of sight, such as new hardware designed to tune out the freeway vibration that could make a long drive in a truck a fatiguing experience.
The most important members of the team, then, may not be the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who put up the drive and the money, nor the engineers who build the hardware that makes it all possible, but the economists who try to work out the effect on the price of platinum when a mountain of the stuff arrives from outer space.
The hardware interface allows a quick transfer of information from the computer to an outside drive that stores data and can be quickly attached and detached without turning the computer on or off.
This is the specification that drive suppliers like Seagate and Western Digital meet to sell them to PC hardware OEMs like Dell and HP.
But those hardware bases are on the decline: Witness the MacBook Air, which contains no CD drive, and the increasing availability of Bluetooth MP3 players and satellite radio in cars.
Evangelho says that a used games restriction would drive gamers to another platform, but argues that because companies lose money on hardware, those cheap gamers would actually become a financial burden.
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Iomega prides itself on providing total solutions, which is why all of the new Iomega USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives come complete out of the box with 256-bit hardware encryption built-in (PC only), as well as the cables required to enjoy your drive right away, whether your desktop or laptop has USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 ports.
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