Hardware and software configurations and specifications vary by region.

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Additionally, Broadcom's standards-based software stack implements NFC Forum specifications, including NFC Controller interface (NCI), to support multiple operating systems.

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Starting out in a tiny office not far from Dalal Street where the BSE is situated, they took three years--Shah wrote the product specifications, and Neralla the software code--to develop a robust software package that was user friendly enough to run on a car battery, a nifty feature in a power-scarce country.

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Workers here are writing code to specifications, creating documentation, or testing software.

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The 4-inch devices seems to lie somewhere between a Pre3 and HP Touchpad, aping the hardware specifications of the former while adopting the latter's software version: webOS 3.0.

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Their joint research and development body, CableLabs, has written specifications for an operating system and chosen a number of software languages in which applications software for the boxes may be written.

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Smart TV Alliance plans to build on this first version and announce specifications of SDK 2.0 followed by the actual SDK 2.0 software release at the end of this year.

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