"You're going to need a lot of high-end hardware to run the newer games, " he said.
In OS terms, VMware can now control hardware and run applications.
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The games are just getting more and more intense - Doom 3 is just incredible - it's going to be very intense for the computer hardware to run it.
Mozilla said it won't be launching its own hardware to run the in-development Firefox OS when it's finished, but the company has just announced a "Developer Preview Phone" for putting the OS through its paces.
Just like the Xbox 360's HD DVD player, that analog VGA connector will support any resolution you choose -- or that your hardware can run without chugging -- as long as the ICT digital-only flag is not enabled (which it has not been for any content released so far).
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If Chrome OS didn't start out with an inferiority complex living in the shadow of the massive adoption of its cousin Android, and with Eric Schmidt dismissing the hardware that would run it as cheap and interchangeable, the hardware companies that were early to adopt it didn't help matters.
Mike Taylor, of e-learning company Equiinet, said schools should be allowed to spend their "e-learning credits" on hardware that would run such media-rich materials.
More important, HTML5 removes a layer of software from Android, said Mr. Sullivan, and thus drives down the cost of hardware needed to run it.
It is harder to develop to Android, not just because of the many forms of Android, but also because of the many different hardware devices that run Android.
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Speaking of smaller players, Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, is creating a mobile phone operating system and is expected to show off the hardware it will run on at its press conference.
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You'll need to accessorize, of course, with a smartphone for hardware harmony and to run companion apps.
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Back in 1991, we still lived in an era when people needed to buy the latest and greatest processors and other hardware, just to run all the new software.
Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
The open source software community has traditionally assumed that their software would run on commodity hardware.
Indeed, Azul hardware is only optimized to run Internet languages Java and Microsoft.
The Redmond giant wanted only cryptographically signed executables, ideally those obtained from the official Windows application store, to run on its hardware.
Some people may think that Apple are keeping their powder dry and are going to run the next hardware announcement as a spoiler when the Galaxy S4 first reaches the store?
Further, will Oracle salespeople be promoting IBM hardware as the primary platform to run these applications and databases?
The solution includes an Audience Advanced Voice Processor core and a hardware accelerator engine, optimized to run computationally intensive audio algorithms with low power consumption.
While a number of startups and hardware companies are developing services that run directly on the TV, Cahan believes that the second screen is where people want to be to use these kinds of television applications.
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Such is the current reality in high tech: IBM, Cisco and HP have become giants almost unto themselves, promising big companies a full range of hardware, software and services to run the biggest corporate computing operations.
Hardware stores around the country reported a run on the product.
What is more, tablets are less about hardware than about the software and services that run on them.
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But generally dominance in hardware is what counts in the very long run.
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On the other hand, it could be that the company is seeing past the hardware and looking at software as a long run solution.
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But to get anywhere, Apple needs to quickly remake its OS to run PC software and license its hardware to anyone willing to make it.
But, with hardware which will no longer be able to run the current (and thus Microsoft-priority) OS before the end of the year, Q3 is expected to be a difficult one.
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One former Silver Cup winner who looks poised to make a run at a more coveted piece of hardware this weekend is Matt Kuchar.
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By bringing virtualization up from the hardware layer, we see is companies can run 2, 3 4 or even 8 times more Java apps per server.
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Zune apps, however, are not supported, despite the fact that the Kin devices are very similar to the Zune HD on a hardware level and would almost certainly be able to run them without performance concerns.
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