Even if the Steambox initiative fizzles, there's always the massive ongoing success of Steam's digital storefront to fall back on. 2013 may be the year that Valve attacks, but it's not just the company's internal hardware projects that are up for the challenge.
Nintendo projects 9 million hardware units sold in FY 2014, with 38 million units of software.
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Hardware engineers used to dominate these projects.
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He remembers going to the hardware store and hanging out and talking household projects.
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Another wrinkle: Developers who once bought First Solar and SunPower panels will increasingly be competing with them for projects, and may therefore turn elsewhere for the hardware.
With some functional similarities to the online data base jointly announced by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba earlier this month, the Red Hat Network will serve as a central warehouse where developers can register information on their hardware and software systems, enabling other developers to better pursue joint projects.
By integrating all these parts of the company, HP hopes to be known less as a hardware vendor, and more as a higher-margin strategic partner on big projects.
These projects took many months to build, and required us to purchase physical hardware by the truckload.
Before returning to school, Petropoulos worked in the consulting industry, where one of his projects was improving the businesses of the thousands of independent owners of Ace Hardware stores across the country.
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Soon after the Kinect's 2010 release, hardware hackers wrote code that let them control the device so they could use it for their own projects.
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