Update: Among other things, Elop flatly denied rumors that the company might sell its hardware unit to Microsoft.
Note that hardware unit sales were up just 3%, but higher average retail prices gave a lift to hardware revenues.
Motorola Mobility hardware unit has indefinitely suspended operations at its phone-manufacturing facility in India and cut 76 jobs there as part of its global cost-reduction program.
Potentially better server hardware unit growth.
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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.
There, a piece of hardware called the concentrator unit plucks the data off a fiber-optic network, reformulates it into a signal at 2 to 30 megahertz and injects that signal onto the power line.
Astrium's plan to tackle defunct satellites is to use an unmanned chase spacecraft to get in range, fire a barbed harpoon into the body of the rogue hardware and then use a smaller propulsion unit attached to a tether to tow it back towards the atmosphere where it will burn up safely on re-entry.
The Xbox 360 was the strongest hardware platform in the quarter in terms of unit sales.
We got to spend a little bit of time with a prototype ZTE model, and found the hardware to be solid for a hand-built unit.
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For maximum flexibility, the unified player and mixer unit also has inputs to connect external hardware, such as CDJs or turntables, so DJs can use it as an independent mixer.
By and large, we're looking at identical hardware (and mostly identical software) as our review unit from back in March, so we'll be brief.
In the past, game console makers spent lots of money developing the next piece of killer hardware, and even would lose money on each console unit sold, expecting to make it back up in sales of games and accessories.
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Compaq Computer, meanwhile, will announce it is forming the Linux Program Center, a unit within the company dedicated to offering a range of different hardware, software, and service offerings, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.
Addressing concerns expressed by many in the smartphone industry, executives for the companies say Motorola will operate as a separate business unit for now, so Google will be free to partner with competing hardware makers.
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Unlike rivals such as Apple, Microsoft has relied mainly on partners to create hardware that runs its software, though there have been exceptions to that pattern such as the Xbox videogame unit and the company's ill-fated Zune media player.
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