In a typical GPU implementation you get a factor of 5 to a factor of 10 reduction in your hardware footprint.

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Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) today announced that it plans to take its free GoPayment mobile credit card app and card reader hardware global, with the first implementation in Canada.

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As envisioned, the screen looks like an ideal fit for a significant revamp of Apple's mobile display technology, although we'd be careful about assuming that this or any in-cell touch implementation is a lock for potentially imminent iOS hardware.

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More competition, an OS not tied in any way at all to anyone making hardware, a proper and full HTML5 implementation, all sorts of things.

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Implementation of this standard and the supporting hardware built to the standard have attracted significant attention in the electric utility industry.

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