In his view, what gadget buyers increasingly care about is not so much the gadgets themselves - it is taken for granted that rival brands are all pretty good - as the quality of the software and services they deliver.
Roger McNamee, a general partner at Integral Capital Partners, a Menlo Park, Calif. venture capital and public investing firm, says Austin has moved ahead of Seattle and Atlanta in the quality of its software startups -- and is coming up fast on Boston.
But HP is ahead in some areas, such as automated tools to test the quality of the customer's software, says IDC analyst Stephen Hendrick.
The new Intel-based smartphone exemplifies Orange's focus on delivering a well executed product to its users, from the quality and feel of industrial design to the overall software and applications experience.
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Also, allowing iOS clones or licensees would fragment the platform, lessening the quality of the OS and third party software significantly.
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Professionals with this job title are typically involved in the entire software development process to ensure the quality of the final product.
It is not the quality of its consumer-facing software or interface that will determine its success and insulate it from competition, as it has for Google, Facebook, and even Amazon.
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"The draft statute will make it very easy for software publishers to disclaim all liability for the quality of their product and to provide no meaningful remedy, " Braucher wrote in an article, just published in the July issue of the UCC Bulletin, a legal newsletter.
Vizio's implementation of the technology takes full advantage of the 4K resolution to provide a high quality 3D picture, and its software maintains a focused picture from all angles.
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In a similar fashion, we control the quality of our product by developing our software and supporting our product in house.
The new deal means that users of the software will be able to download high-quality versions of BBC programmes, including Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and the League of Gentleman.
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Denon celebrates its 100th Year Anniversary in 2010, carrying on its tradition of excellence with a renewed commitment to the highest quality home theater, audio and software products.
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The project consists of assembling and readapting a package of high quality free open source software in three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in Arab countries on USB keys.
Growth has also benefited from the larger memory requirements associated with newer, more visually and feature rich computing platforms and software applications, and the storing and play back of higher quality media files such as high definition video.
The lack of last-mile bandwidth is holding up the next generation of internet software, which requires streaming audio and high-quality video.
The lack of last mile bandwidth is holding up the next generation of Internet software, which requires streaming audio and TV-quality video.
Image quality, the meat and potatoes of camera work, is usually high on the Sensation, though some software irregularities do undermine the evident strength of the hardware on board.
People may have a hard time accepting that their precious smartphone has some bugs in its software, but the truth of the matter is that there are diminishing returns to code quality and defects get shipped all the time.
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Improvements in voice quality using the public Internet are due to more sophisticated software, but the big change has been the increasing use of private networks.
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