He said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.
The reason is: jobs represent a lower and lower proportion of hardware production.
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Research In Motion shares are trading higher Tuesday morning on a report that CEO Thorstein Heins said the company is mulling the sale of its hardware production unit, among other strategic options.
Unlike traditional hands-free solutions, the suite eliminates the need for a lengthy tuning process and dedicated hardware, lowering production costs and increasing design flexibility.
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Keep in mind these early results are based off of pre-production hardware and final units could yield welcome improvements in the form of software optimization.
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Digitization has lowered the cost and increased the efficiency of video production, resulting in a surge in the amount of content available as well as the hardware needed to support digital production, distribution and archiving.
Money will go towards scaling their production of hardware (built in Arizona) and building a sales and marketing team to spread the word about products.
Based on the Fusion ioMemory platform that leading enterprises around the world trust to accelerate their data centers, the 420 GB Fusion ioFX connects via the PCI Express bus to provide studios and artists with a new memory tier that bridges the gap between creative potential and hardware performance in the production pipeline.
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Apple has been making the bulk of its profits by selling its hardware at 2-3 times its production costs.
Production of information and communication technology hardware (ICT) fell 6.5% from the previous month.
The new factor of course is an astronomical rise in the production and use of all that ICT hardware.
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Roku will use the new capital to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well as content packages.
In a new wrinkle, HP also said it is discontinuing production of WebOS devices, basically killing the Palm hardware business.
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Second, the delivery method is outdated and the extra hardware, including a special antenna, and design requirements increase production costs for little return in value.
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Before I get into detail, allow me a short disclaimer: The hardware I played with was a prototype, not a finished production model, and the games I played with were essentially proof of concept demos, not necessarily software under development.
Threats to the supply chain range from the installation of malicious code in either hardware or software to the installiation of counterfeit equipment and the disruption of the production of critical components.
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Not only is phone hardware complex to make, but one is up against huge producers on the production side, and carriers on the distribution side who are already locked in a best-enemies relationship with those huge producers.
Samsung provided reporters with some hands-on time with pre-production units, which revealed the S 4 to be, in terms of hardware, a solid successor to the III.
And as with every other type of digital hardware, the price will only fall from there as manufacturers continue to scale up and to refine their production processes.
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