Those pining for hardware flexibility can make use of the platform's existing "cape" hardware add-ons.
New Kinect 2 hardware will incorporate better voice recognition, hardware processing and stereo imaging.
Many smaller hardware suppliers showcase hardware -- including quite a few wireless modems for PCs or notebooks.
Meanwhile, the research firm notes that Apple hardware is single-handedly keeping PC hardware sales about the flat line.
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His hardware, tools, and materiel come from specialty shops, including the artisanal hardware store elsewhere in the same plaza.
Samsung is a hardware company, It is a very large electronic components manufacturer and manufacture most of its hardware components.
Note that hardware unit sales were up just 3%, but higher average retail prices gave a lift to hardware revenues.
Hardware accelerated encryption is the biggest security feature, but for hardware encryption to be effective it has to be implemented correctly.
Will the cost of hardware ever be so painfully high that Cook becomes tempted to get Apple out of the hardware business?
Sure the hardware must be physically capable of transmitting the signal, but what we're really talking about here is software, not hardware.
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Synaptics often has to retrofit its cutting-edge hardware into existing consumer hardware, but for this, had to manufacture Sensa entirely from scratch.
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By pulling apart the hardware and software of a computer, the technology allows multiple virtual machines to share the same hardware resources without conflict.
At the same time we have been accused of having only a single source for our military hardware and spending so much on that hardware.
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Big Blue's hardware business will also be probed, as investors hope the company can reverse its falling sales of hardware systems, which dropped 6.7% last quarter.
Apple makes both the hardware and the OS, and as such has always been able to show better margins than a hardware-only manufacturer such as Samsung.
One way is to apply the open source software process to hardware, driving down IT hardware costs while driving up the ability to customize IT infrastructure.
Since October Apple have been releasing updated hardware on an almost monthly basis, such as the 128 GB iPad and the tweaked MacBook Pro hardware.
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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All of the hardware makers, Google perhaps less than the others because it is only nominally a hardware maker, have sought to use software to create hardware advantages.
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Of course Apple uses and makes hardware too, consummate hardware.
The further irony is that Amazon is not a hardware developer but has scooped one of the most recognized and respected hardware innovators and manufacturers in the world: RIM.
Once you have a basic level of hardware functionality (what is called a Turing machine) all kinds of applications can be created with a mixture of hardware and software.
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Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
Earlier this year, Mr. Cook coaxed Apple hardware chief Bob Mansfield out of retirement after his staff complained about working under his replacement, according to people familiar with Apple's hardware group.
Hardware, software, consultware IBM SHIPPED its first Model 650 to an insurance company in December 1954 and for the next quarter of a century this hardware manufacturer owned the computing business.
You don't need that kind of industrial-strength hardware to build a home network, but you will need a piece of hardware called a residential gateway, which will do the same jobs.
Jobs said that Apple is essentially a software company whose hardware is a beautiful box for the product, but that close coupling of hardware and software was generally necessary in consumer electronics.
Valve head Gabe Newell says the company isn't stopping any planned hardware initiatives, despite reports of layoffs at the company and the news that hardware lead Jeri Ellsworth was fired.
To some extent it is this that has enabled Apple to make software like margins on their hardware sales: 30-40% rather than the more usual 10% or so of the hardware world.
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