PCs opened up the American software market to outside companies and turned the hardware into a commodity.
This powerful SDK enables app-developers the simplest way to integrate the broadest range of Bluetooth LE hardware into their smartphone apps.
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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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One solution, being promoted by a company called LifeShirt.com, based in Ojai, California, is to sew all the necessary hardware into your clothes.
There has traditionally been no easy way to turn the jumble of enterprise software and hardware into a coherent orchestra, because all of the sheet music is written in different languages.
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Soon, it was: Hackers began posting YouTube videos of their refinements of his technique, squeezing the necessary hardware into an inconspicuous iPhone case or the body of a dry-erase marker.
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These "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray titles-paired with the native 4K titles for Sony's 4K video distribution service, which is planned to be launched in summer 2013 in the US-demonstrate Sony Pictures' holistic commitment to 4K and to the launch of this exciting new hardware into the market.
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On a macro level, this is turning infrastructure from a hardware game into a software game.
It provides more power to headphones and superior sound than the audio hardware built into Apple devices.
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With even more powerful and expensive hardware baked into next-gen consoles, one imagines that pricing is going to be a huge issue for console manufacturers.
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"Following Oracle's move into hardware and SAP's move into the database market, both of which position these leading apps companies more in IBM's traditional markets, IBM has perhaps fewer reservations about participating in the apps and software-as-a-service market, " Nomura analysts said.
Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.
You can see the logic: the company jumped into hardware with the Kindle e-book readers and then moved into tablets with the Kindle Fire.
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Oracle, a software giant, has moved into hardware, and Hewlett-Packard, a computer-maker, is expanding further into software and services.
Long focused in personal computers on supplying operating system software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.
Peter Semmelhack, founder of an outfit call Bug Labs, wants to take open-source even farther--into hardware.
Splitting the operation of the chip into hardware and software components has other advantages.
But turning a Finnish hardware-maker into a provider of software and services is no easy undertaking.
And the whole competitive dance is really being focused on the services that hardware users tap into.
But over time, proven software methods sometimes find their way back into hardware.
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Google unveiled the first touch-screen laptops powered by its Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant made its latest foray into hardware development.
Venture capital for consumer electronics remains scant compared with the plethora of cash available for Web companies, but investments into hardware start-ups are rising.
You need the design and marketing skills to combine hardware and software into a product that will make people go "wow", rather than "whatever".
Before now Valve has let it be known that it wants to expand beyond games into hardware but has revealed few details about those plans.
There's not a whole lot to say here, but we figured we'd give you a quick rundown of the hardware before digging into the actual performance.
Because if Microsoft is willing to bridge the gap from software into hardware, then what company on the planet can claim to be beyond such an approach?
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It has money, infrastructure, and hardware to embed into.
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The hardware is put into a fiberglass pod, which hangs on either side of the choppers fuselage, on a gimbal, that lets it turn to cover the extra 60 degrees (for a total of 180 degrees of coverage each).
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The Windows team invests a mind-boggling amount of time, hardware, and people into maintaining compatibility.
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