The next generation of gaming will be driven by rapid innovation on the software side.
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Finally, on the software side, HP is introducing native Hulu and Netflix to its MediaSmart software suite.
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On the software side, a similar consolidation and drying up of innovation and competition has taken place.
On the software side, the Torque uses a version of stock Android 4.0 with only a small amount of tweaking.
The company's got plenty of new tricks on the software side, too.
If you believe that the network trend still has legs, consider shares of a smaller company on the software side: Opnet Technologies.
On the software side, Samsung is loading all of its Win 8 systems with its various Media Hubs -- yes, just like the ones you'll find on the company's Android devices.
On the software side, Sony came out with its God of War III in 2010 and is said to be preparing God of War IV, for release in September 2012.
On the software side, meanwhile, HP's pre-installing a few board games like EA Monopoly, and there's a physical key you can use to flip the screen orientation when it's another player's turn.
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We'll have to wait to see if there's anything new on the software side, but we can tell you there have been a host of hardware changes, even if they don't amount to a major upgrade.
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Not only is the operating system no longer managing the hardware, thanks to the work of VMware and Citrix, but as applications continue move to the Web operating systems are also losing relevance on the software side to the browser.
On the software side of things, Samsung is taking advantage of its mobile devices' processing power to layer premium features on top of Android, such as the ability to run two apps at once in a split screen or separate window.
On the software side, Lenovo is offering such things as the ability to disable ports and cameras, McAfee anti virus, VPN support for Cisco or Juniper, virtualization of remote desktop support from Citrix, remote wipe or disable from Computrace, and Active Directory password support.
We've gone into thorough detail about how pro guitar works on the software side of Rock Band 3, for better and for worse (you can check out that impressions piece here), so for this review we're largely going to focus on how the hardware feels.
If you're not ready to leave the familiar environment of Microsoft Windows, however, there is plenty of open-source software that can help you save money--and keep you on the right side of the software police.
Lack of a critical mass of apps was one of the undoings of the HP TouchPad, and nobody, on the software or hardware side, wants to see that happen again.
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It's not so easy for a hardware company to go into business selling software on the side.
Reading the reports, that opinion is going to be solidified and making it that bit harder to sell a Microsoft branded product, especially one that is one hundred percent Microsoft on both the software and hardware side of things.
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But he proved himself on the consumer-business side by handling the release of Apple's latest Mac operating system software that went on sale this summer.
On the public market side, technology firms focused on the corporate market, such as data company Splunk and HR software company Workday, have done well in the public markets, says Anand Sanwal, CEO and co-founder of CB Insights.
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They are not on the side of strong protection for everything software.
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McCain says that the very limited pick up in investments have been on the productivity side, with companies investing in software and machinery, rather than on expanding production.
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Long focused in personal computers on supplying operating system software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.
Aircraft installations of the new technology will typically take place overnight and will require the installation of two antennas, one on each side of the aircraft, installation of a second modem and a software upgrade.
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Finally, new in the latest software release is the option to condense the keyboard on either the right or left-hand side of the screen for one-handed text input -- a feature that's been extended to the phone dialer as well.
He was too focused on the operating side, allowing the company's software-development effort to weaken.
And so on the platform and the infrastructure side, we are able to offer to customers the ability to provide the software in a much more standardized configuration, as well as resources to scale up and down on demand.
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For example China believes it can draw on India's vast reservoir of trained computer scientists to develop the software side of its information technology sector.
On one hand it sold the PDA itself, and on the other it was attempting to build a software business by licensing its PDA software to companies with which it would essentially compete on the hardware side.
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