With lessons learned from the standout success of its portable Nintendo DS--the company garnered 82% of portable software sales and sold 13 million DS units last year--the company has never had a clearer opportunity to differentiate itself to American audiences.
Here is the real irony: iPhone and Android phones run portable hotspot software so the Fire will have broadband access to the net via these devices.
Blackberry handset users will not be able to link between their handsets and the Fire because RIM, at least for now, does not support portable hotspot software.
Control of the portable and home software platform now not only means control of software distribution, but of all content distribution.
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They can thank strong sales of the Wii, the portable DS and game software.
This segment offers handheld and portable devices, and related software that can deliver real-time location data and directions to specific destinations.
He also referenced the planned integration of its handheld and console divisions, intended to make software and apps more portable between devices.
Later this month, Sony will introduce a software update for its PlayStation Portable that will support Skype.
Later this month, Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) will introduce a software update for its PlayStation Portable that will support Skype.
Skyhook's software loads on to mobile phones and portable devices like netbook computers and in most cities can identify where you are within 60 feet.
Still, with wireless Skype handsets, portable Vonage adapters, and all manner of VoIP software for WiFi-enabled cellphones, it seems like the early adopter crowd Earthlink has its sights on in Anaheim might need a little more incentive to drop a couple hundred on a handset that may or may not only make calls on Earthlink's SoCal WiFi rollout.
Garmin's broad range of in-vehicle electronics for the automotive industry includes infotainment and telematics systems, navigation software, location-based services, and integrated portable navigation systems.
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Tracks protected with DRM software are typically bound to one service or a particular portable player.
The transition from one generation of consoles to the next is always painful, though this time around the launch of new portable game devices by Sony and Nintendo has helped to prop up software sales and mask the decline in sales of games for fixed consoles.
When paired with the Qualcomm Atheros AR6003 or AR6004 chipsets, the mobile access point software stack enables customers to design high performance, low power portable and fixed 802.11n routers.
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Apple is promising to reveal new software for the Macintosh personal computer, as well as its line of portable devices.
Aside from music files, a setting in the iTunes software allows the user to store whatever files he or she might need to have handy in a portable package.
Included free of charge with all of Iomega's eGo and Prestige Portable Hard Drives is the Iomega Protection Suite, a one-stop portfolio of backup and anti-virus software giving users added protection for their photos, videos, music and other files.
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Key to the device is what's missing: Instead of the optical drive built into most other portable devices, the MacBook Air can wirelessly borrow another device's optical drive, so that it can access software or data stored on a disk.
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