As a result, security is now a central concern for the hardware industry.
And perhaps even jumpstart an Indian mobile hardware industry.
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The BCM7445 also features web domain security, an industry leading hardware security oversight to separate Internet services from premium broadcast content.
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This common, secure environment for software execution will utilize advanced hardware security coupled with industry standard software interfaces, such as those from the GlobalPlatform industry association.
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.
James, 48, has broad knowledge of the computing industry, spanning hardware, security, software and services, which she developed through leadership positions at Intel and as chairman of Intel's software subsidiaries -- Havok, McAfee and Wind River.
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Heck -- even Apple, the most famously-closed ecosystem in the entire technology industry, decouples hardware from software insomuch that Macs are released on a timetable completely unrelated to that of Mac OS and can be upgraded -- at a cost -- for many years, at the owner's leisure.
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Yet, the company developed the industry's best hardware-neutral streaming platform and fended off challenges from Blockbuster, Wal-Mart, Hulu and Amazon.
In addition, we are working across the mobile industry with operators, hardware manufacturers, operating system providers, and developers to improve the Facebook experience on mobile devices and make Facebook available to more people around the world.
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As the technology industry shifts from a hardware-based model to a software-based model, New York is positioned well with access to clients and a pool of potential employees who understand marketing, consumers, media and communications, Mr. Pinsky said.
Apotheker has seen this industry from each side: hardware and software.
The Wi-Fi standard is itself technically still a draft, so manufacturers could find their cutting-edge products too ahead of the curve if their hardware doesn't conform to the industry standard.
"Most of our members do the right thing and come back and certify their products, " said Edgar Figueroa, chief executive of the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group made up of hardware makers that sell wireless devices.
The telecom industry, a huge user of hardware, "is probably what's beginning to turn the ship, " he said.
In the computer industry the value has migrated from hardware to software.
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Industry heavyweights in IT services, mobile hardware and Web advertising have strong cash generating abilities and presence in their respective markets.
The industry was hedging its bets on new hardware from Sony (PlayStation Move) and Microsoft (Kinect for Xbox 360) and hoping that Activision could serve up another hit with its Call of Duty franchise.
Guillemot was confident that the console industry would rebound with the new generation of hardware.
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PC's architecture was not perfect, but its adoption as an industry standard made possible economies of scale in both hardware and software.
More recently, a somewhat overlapping group of tech heavyweights called the Green Grid, including Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AMD, announced a "roadmap" for the IT industry's adoption of more efficient data center hardware.
However, while software will undoubtedly continue to impact, it is hardware that is now taking its turn to shake up the industry and potentially change the working landscape for internet marketers and website owners around the world.
The devices are expected to jumpstart sales of computer hardware companies and suppliers at a time when growth has been an industry-wide concern.
In addition, one industry watcher suggested Nvidia's move would prove controversial with hardware makers that currently use its chips.
Implementation of this standard and the supporting hardware built to the standard have attracted significant attention in the electric utility industry.
In the tech industry, that jargon refers to companies that control both the hardware and software of the products they sell.
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"It's part of a growing trend to integrate hardware, software and services, " says Ross Rubin, director of consumer technology industry analysis for the NPD Group.
The computer industry is split down the middle over support for Microsoft, with many hardware makers backing the company's campaign against the government, while many rival software firms are calling for a break-up.
The second comes from the auto industry where, my interviewee told me, the balance between software and hardware engineers on any given infotainment project is now 50 software engineers to one hardware engineer.
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But who is going to be the dominant force in smart TV - the Asian hardware manufacturers, or the search firm which has already made its mark on the smartphone industry?
Not just to get into the fast growing smartphone industry, but to end its reliance on Microsoft Windows as the basis for its hardware gadgets.
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