Some analysts have said the focus on wireless technology at Comdex this year is proof that the PC hardware show is no longer relevant.
The hardware highlight of the show so far has to be the Samsung OmniaHD, which can capture and play back 720p video.
Apple makes both the hardware and the OS, and as such has always been able to show better margins than a hardware-only manufacturer such as Samsung.
Surface not only looks cool but it can show off cellphone hardware and software in an intuitive, engaging way, Austin says.
Specifically, the Nielsen Netratings mentioned show HD DVD hardware sales up 37 percent, and software sales up 20 percent from the first to the second quarter of this year.
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Speaking of smaller players, Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, is creating a mobile phone operating system and is expected to show off the hardware it will run on at its press conference.
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Come show us your Hardware Engineering talents.
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In a note to investors earlier this week, Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey wrote that his checks with contract manufacturers don't show any major new hardware platforms on the way.
It is a show stoppers in terms of the hardware that would make any one consider this device.
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There are no show stoppers in terms of the hardware that would make me not consider this device.
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There is no reason I should have to link to Google to show you video created on Apple hardware and software.
"This year won't be a show for aircraft debuts or actual hardware that we'll be seeing for the first time, " Murdo Morrison, editor of Flight International magazine, told CNN.
As Mr Biden was showing off US military hardware in Beirut, Hezbollah was staging its own show of strength in Nabatieh, a provincial centre south-east of the capital.
In addition to the Best of Show award, the 3DS also won Best Hardware.
Developers were able to quickly get to grips with (the PS4) and show something up and running on the actual hardware.
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Nvidia, traditionally a manufacturer of high-end graphical hardware, announced its Project Shield console at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
But that doesn't mean Oculus had nothing to show -- not only have a variety of hardware tweaks been made (a new, custom sensor, for instance), but the software's been optimized.
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Regardless of their differences in hardware approach, Google Wallet and Isis each are beginning to show promise in delivering something for consumers and merchants alike that shifts the focus from whether users are swiping, waving or tapping when checking out to the services delivered on top of the payment itself.
Toshiba also announced a new SSD to IP hardware engine called NPEngine, just in time for the 2012 NAB Show.
Comments to the piece show that the very existence of BBM is what drives hardware purchases in that teen and youth market as well.
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Many of the units introduce at the show have Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), which support hardware encryption.
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It is unclear whether there will be an Insider portal for all this content or if other services will just be certified to work on the hardware platform, but we will be finding out much more once the show starts.
"You're going to actually get a chance to actually drive flight hardware on another planet, " said Bill Nye, a children's science show host on U.S. public television and a member of Planetary Society's board, who was also present for the announcement.
The traditional show of the Myanmar military's power this year put more of its hardware on display than in the past, including helicopter demonstrations and flyovers by fighter jets in the capital, Naypyitaw.
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Through a few hardware changes, Samsung compressed the device, which was first introduced at the Mobile World Congress trade show in mid-February, to a width of 8.6 millimeters.
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The experiences of the reponses to Hurricane Katrina and 9-11 show what can happen when there are massive failures of communications between military and civilian authorities and agencies: hardware failures, incompatibility, system overload, interference, and other factors that vastly complicated a coordinated response.
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