Micros Systems focuses on the restaurant, hotel and entertainment industries, for which it makes hardware (such as point-of-sale terminals) and management software.
Micros Systems (nasdaq: MCRS - news - people ) focuses on the restaurant, hotel and entertainment industries, for which it makes hardware (such as point-of-sale terminals) and management software.
It's a major shortcoming of the hardware, and it makes games like Skyrim that throw many menus of that kind at you intolerable to play in a serious way.
But it is software that makes the hardware a reality.
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The most important members of the team, then, may not be the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who put up the drive and the money, nor the engineers who build the hardware that makes it all possible, but the economists who try to work out the effect on the price of platinum when a mountain of the stuff arrives from outer space.
Palm Pre introduces a breakthrough user interface and hardware design that makes it one of the most integrated and user-friendly mobile phones on the market.
With entertainment centered around online videos, second screens, connected TV hardware and apps, it makes sense that Western Digital is keeping a pulse on this rapidly burgeoning field.
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It makes matters even more complicated that the line between hardware and software are so fluid.
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For example, a telephony API gives you the power of the phone network without the need to purchase expensive hardware, a mapping API makes it possible for you to build customized, dynamic maps without signing contracts with data providers, and a payments API lets you accept payments without having to worry about complying with complex financial regulations, etc.
The talk back menus worked very well, once you get the hang of holding your finger over your selection and it makes a lot of sense to offer a software solution on existing hardware, rather than go the more difficult route of making dedicated (but niche) devices.
Now it makes Zelda, Mario, a host of other first party franchises and hardware.
Apple's charts are a bit less specific, detailing the total sales of its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch lines rather than the sales of each specific hardware iteration -- though where it falters in detail it makes up in numbers.
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While we've seen some similar hardware leaks already, this video makes a very strong case for it being the real deal.
For although Sun makes most of its money selling server computers and storage devices, it is not just a hardware-maker.
There aren't many ways to hop in the time machine and enjoy old-school hardware the way it was meant to be enjoyed, and that's what makes virgin unboxings of vintage equipment so very special.
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Though the outfit typically makes software used in situations ranging from natural disasters to election monitoring, it's taking a hardware project to Kickstarter that aims to ease connectivity woes for itself and others.
Microsoft still makes more money from Android patent licensing than it does by selling licenses of Windows Phone OS to its hardware partners.
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Sure, it's hard to imagine a reason for most people to pick up a DMP-B15 over a cheapish Blu-ray playing laptop -- the thing is monstrously thick, and can't even handle a traditional laptop-style screen orientation, only everything but -- but the hardware is reliable enough for kids to handle on the road, and the single-use makes it a good home Blu-ray player for plugging into that second HD-starved TV.
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