Apple may choose to partner Passbook with new hardware support in the iPhone 5, such as NFC.
In tandem with the newer kernel, updated versions of the KDE and Xfce desktop environments also result in much broader hardware support than many veteran users will remember.
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It's a potentially strong start to one of the few truly cross-network mobile payment systems in the US, but we see a long road ahead before Isis gives Google Wallet some jitters -- there's legions of banks, cities and stores needed before Isis is widespread, and we're not counting on that ever-elusive universal hardware support.
Because the code has been licensed under the Eclipse public license rather than the harder-core GPL, device manufacturers will be able to continue to tack on custom features and hardware support without open-sourcing it, which should make them less gun-shy about throwing weight behind the platform -- and considering how badly these guys need to get back into the spotlight, that's a good thing.
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The new hardware will support the next major wireless networking standard, best known by the name IEEE 802.11g.
Hardware systems support was down 11%, or down 6% in constant currency.
Now the newer hardware will support that, so it is getting useful.
You want to have all of these little things working and push the quality on all those things and that means you need the hardware to support that.
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"Social play is so important to PlayStation 4 that we've added in hardware to support it, in the form of dedicated, always-on video compression and decompression systems, " he said.
Sadly, this exclusive to the HDHomeRun Prime because its the only one with the hardware to support DLNA, but the new tuners due this spring will allow DLNA access of ATSC, QAM and DVB sources -- as well as allow playback on Media Players that only support h.264.
To get a 3D support, VirtualBox would have to have virtual 3D hardware and drivers to support it.
Many of the units introduce at the show have Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), which support hardware encryption.
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India had depended heavily on the Soviet Union for military hardware and political support against both China and Pakistan.
Still, it's cheaper for hardware makers to support one standard, and 1394's main champions, Apple and Sony, lack the clout of USB's backers.
So I should be able to use data from any application on any phone (given sufficient hardware specs to support the software.) This, of course, is not at all the case at present.
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Yes, we're telling you to add in a lot of features, but time is of the essence, and the next generation of TiVo hardware with tru2way support needs to hit shelves soon.
Digitization has lowered the cost and increased the efficiency of video production, resulting in a surge in the amount of content available as well as the hardware needed to support digital production, distribution and archiving.
Cisco's joining the ranks of hardware vendors that support NDS is viewed as a very strong endorsement of Novell's efforts to push its directory as the central point for managing many aspects of an enterprise network.
The new hardware won't support games made for the existing PlayStation 3, however.
Corporate IT decision makers need to take a careful look at the new hardware, software and support capabilities required to adopt tablets successfully.
As part of a Shared University Research Award granted by IBM Research, the company will provide Rensselaer with Watson hardware, software and support services.
Even without factoring in productivity increases, Cisco found companies were still coming out ahead when researchers compared the savings from hardware, telecommunications and support with the additional costs of BYOD.
Likewise, Chrome for Google TV will now be on the same six week upgrade cycle as its desktop counterpart going forward, and it'll also now come with support for hardware-based content protection.
The touch pad hardware really can't support all the features of Windows 8.
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Unfortunately picture-in-picture support won't be part of the hardware and software package until Q3, with BD Live support slated for early 2009.
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Additional requests from the backer community resulted last week in the GameStick team announcing support for peripheral hardware through a previously unspecified docking station.
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For example, IBM, the best-known name in early computing and still the major supplier of technology for business, offers a host of technology solutions including hardware, software, and support.
The group of folks bent on crafting a real-life version of Star Trek's "Holodeck" -- a virtual playground, essentially -- are getting official support from gaming hardware company Razer.
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He explained that the software remains as close as possible to what's available on the 600 and 800, but the hardware is scaled down to support lower-resolution displays and cameras by using ARM cores instead of the company's own Krait architecture.
WP8 was announced over the summer and in an effort to keep everyone with the existing hardware (that would not support Windows Phone 8), Microsoft talked about an intermediate version of Windows Phone, running between the upcoming WP8 and the then current WP7.5.
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