Surface delivers the power of amazing software and the feel of premium hardware in one exciting experience.
Microsoft may be keeping all the Windows Phone hardware partners in check, but one of them is getting a lot more coverage than others.
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One uses embedded hardware in the form of a near-field communications chip (NFC) within smartphones, which requires an NFC-enabled merchant device to handle the transaction.
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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.
It is a show stoppers in terms of the hardware that would make any one consider this device.
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She uses the example of cheaper IT hardware, one of the main aspects of globalisation in the 1990s.
Three years ago, Sony endured one of its most troubling hardware launches in company history when it released the PSP Go.
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Microsoft is struggling to reassert its dominance in the computer software and hardware market, but one of its biggest success stories of recent years has undoubtedly been the Kinect camera.
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It's one that hopes to unite hardware and software in a way that an all-purpose controller never could.
It is also becoming one of the major players in enterprise hardware, thanks to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010.
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And while Apple surely has lots of hardware sales in its future, the content market is the one most vulnerable to the sort of wholesale disruption that propelled Apple to its riches in the first place.
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Helping companies get the most out of their hardware has made VMware one of the fastest growing software firms in decades.
Reports on Android Central and The Verge also mention hardware spotted at Staples locations, with one person actually succeeding in buying one.
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All MAINGEAR products are supported with lifetime labor and phone support in the US, along with one to three year hardware warranty options.
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As for the hardware itself, the mic arrangement means things can be neatly contained in one spherical shield, rather than two extremities on some stereo recorders.
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This is clearly seen through Wall Street analyst valuation eyes, as one digital dollar in revenues is worth more than a hardware sale of three or even four times more.
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At the core of these enterprise storage systems are disk drives much like the one in your PC, but surrounded with considerable extra hardware and software to give them the security and easy management that big companies demand.
So launching a Kindle model in 2011 at near to no hardware margin does not mean that those one is selling 10, 11 months later, just before the launch of the next model, are also being sold with no hardware margin.
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The limited ability to introduce major hardware improvements puts more pressure on Samsung to address one of its biggest weaknesses in its fight against Apple: software.
Tom's Hardware, a global publication specializing in consumer electronics, selected Optimus 4X HD as one of the most innovative products at this year's Mobile World Congress.
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From the pictures, it looks like their hardware is still too big to fit in portable electronics (pictured at right, one of their Bluetooth modules), but that might just be for test purposes.
Specifically, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Microsoft reps in Taipei found it difficult to navigate their own OS due to hardware issues with their demo devices -- namely, new all-in-one PCs from Acer and ASUS. There were said to be issues with opening and closing apps, possibly due to the implementation of touch on such large screen sizes of 23-inches and over.
But there was one little problem: My hippopotamus didn't have the correct hardware in the back to properly connect my laptop.
But having 50 or 500 apps that run in one ecosystem and not the other is certainly going to influence your hardware and OS choices over the coming years.
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For one thing, it suggests that the software giant has finally concluded that Steve Jobs was right all along: that in order to make consumer-friendly computers one must control both the hardware and the software.
In addition, one industry watcher suggested Nvidia's move would prove controversial with hardware makers that currently use its chips.
He also took a bet on a different future, in which even Dell will one day be punished for eschewing services and sticking to hardware.
One of the hardware designers, lamenting that the antennas of traditional laptops were buried in the display screen, asked if he could liberate them to increase range.
One big reason is that when it comes to hardware, consumers are increasingly interested in buying four different types of products: tablets, smartphones, high-definition televisions, and traditional PCs and laptops.
In so many words, ALT Systems will take the disparate pieces of hardware and software from HP, NVIDIA, Autodesk and Epic Games to provide an all-in-one buying solution for game dev studios.
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