For Chromebooks to continue being adopted, Google needs to set hardware benchmarks which result in an excellent user experience.
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"There's no eye contact, no way for them to see each other, " said Whittock, adding that the company would set up the hardware specifically in this way.
All three feature the same set of internal hardware: a dual-core 1.6GHz Rockchip CPU and an unnamed quad-core GPU. The pre-production units we handled were running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and all feature high-res IPS screens.
The slider looked pretty nice, but all the aforementioned hardware was set up in Chinese, so we lost interest pretty quickly.
In a news conference with his Israeli counterpart on Monday, Mr Hagel said the US will make available to Israel a set of advanced military hardware.
Touch-screen looks set to complement existing hardware, rather than banish them to the history books, enabling more collaboration and simplifying the process of accessing multi-media facilities on the PC.
Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, set a technological benchmark today with the release of its new Razer DeathStalker Ultimate gaming keyboard, featuring Razer's award-winning Switchblade User Interface (UI).
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The Wikipad gaming tablet has been ticking off boxes on its way to becoming a real product, and after bedding down with Gaikai game streaming and settling in to a 10.1-inch form factor, the rest of the hardware is now set.
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The mission is set to include three spacewalks to store hardware on the outside of the orbiting outpost.
In fact, Nintendo titan Shigeru Miyamoto recalled the original 3DS handheld plans to add the gyroscope, even though hardware features had been "set" internally.
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Dubbed Glass Foundry, the events will introduce developers to Glass, set them up with access to the hardware and familiarize them with the API, called Mirror.
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That said, Bill Gates is touting Microsoft's own software format, Windows Media, to several online music services and hardware firms, hoping to set a rival standard with greater interoperability.
Microsoft is set to debut their own next-gen hardware on May 21st.
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Clickfree's entire lineup of products is designed for the 85 to 95 percent of computer users who, research shows, fail to regularly backup content on their PCs because they do not have the time, desire or skill to install, set up and use confusing or complex software and hardware products.
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Clickfree's entire lineup of products, from the Transformer Cable to Clickfree portable backup drives and DVDs, are designed for the 85 to 95 percent of computer users who, research shows, fail to regularly backup content on their PCs because they do not have the time, desire or skill to install, set up and use confusing or complex software and hardware products.
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Set top boxes for satellite and cable also use a hardware module to authenticate devices and bind them to subscribers.
The key to innovation in the set-top box space is giving consumers a choice of hardware and software.
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They seem set on perfecting the e-reader as a piece of hardware, while paying relatively little attention to its grander implications.
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The interface eschews the conventional virtualization of a turntable set-up, instead creating a workflow more congruent with the hardware's form factor.
"We thought it was time to help set the record straight, " Greg Joswiak, vice president of Hardware Product Marketing at Apple, told MacCentral.
Wolk goes so far as to suggest that cable providers will focus on making tablets their main hardware presence in the living room instead of leaning on set-top boxes.
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Today, the TV you watch and interact with is a sophisticated ecosystem made up of a melange of technology including middleware, meta data, content discovery and content rights management technology that converges in your set top box, which in itself is a smarter piece of hardware than your TV.
Other cable companies like Time Warner Cable are said to be interested in RDK hardware, which could spur the development of new and better set-top boxes -- we can hope, can't we?
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Perhaps understanding that the wireless customer base at large can be both fickle and impatient, the nation's fourth-largest carrier is wasting no time getting its 3G equipment set up -- the rollout begins, like, now (they claim half of NYC's hardware is already in place) and will continue through the next several years, with compatible handsets and peripherals hitting retail sometime in mid 2007.
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