Sentences with phrase «getting out of the hardware»

«They are not completely getting out of the hardware business, but they are going to lean a lot more on the comprehensive digital catalog of content,» an unnamed source told The New York Times.

One of the last proclamations that former CEO William Lynch made, was that the company was getting out of hardware, only to flip flop and say they were going to continue to make e-readers.

Generally considered to be among the higher - end mobile device hardware options (don't be fooled by the number of sales, which will appear small by comparison to the likes of Samsung or Huawei), the Nexus lineup is overdue for a refresh (and there may not be much time, if Google gets out of hardware it may be more difficult for the company to keep the reigns tight on the direction taken by Android as a platform).

Earlier today we broke the news that Barnes and Noble was thinking of getting out of the hardware business and was going to start licensing out its apps and ebooks to Samsung and Microsoft.

«They are not completely getting out of the hardware business, but they are going to lean a lot more on the comprehensive digital catalog of content,» said this person, who asked not to be identified discussing corporate strategy.

EXOPC told us in an exclusive interview a while back that they were getting out of the hardware game and developing software.

If sales lag and B&N gets out of the hardware business, I'm in a bind.

Just last year, Barnes & Noble announced that they would be getting out of the hardware game, and work with other manufacturers to produce their competitor to the Amazon Kindle and Kindle Fire.

So if B&N completely gets out of the hardware business what can they do to compete in the ebook world?

«They are not completely getting out of the hardware business, but they are going to lean a lot more on the comprehensive digital catalog of content» said the NYT source.

, their decision to get out of the hardware manufacturing business, and their buyout of Microsoft's stake in the company will give them more bandwidth to refocus on books.

The Dreamcast launched in 1998 by January 2001 Sega announced that they were getting out of the hardware market.

But while other companies have taken this as a cue to get out of the hardware business or push toward commodity status, Fitbit is doubling down on premium devices.

BlackBerry announced that it is getting out of the hardware business.

Not exact matches

We want the hardware to do its job and get out of the way — we're tired of celebrating the box and now we're paying far more attention to the beef.

Lots of people do most of their computing in a web browser, and Chrome OS can get more out of weaker hardware.

For now, the attitude of a loyal Glass lover is to just try to get as much use out of it as possible until the hardware wears out.

We get excited about hardware, but we spend seven or eight years playing games — and he's one of the best game makers out there.»

«If you ask any of the developers, they will typically want to see 18 months or two years lead time, for something with as wide an impact on all the software and hardware out there as a hard fork,» Blockstream co-founder and Hashcash inventor Dr. Adam Back noted during a Q&A session.And if the chain does split into different networks and currencies — one following the current Bitcoin protocol and one adopting the hard fork — the question becomes which of the two gets to use the name «Bitcoin.»

Wise deans spend as much on training as they do on hardware, and they don't let the hardware get «out in front of» the training.

Drop cloths from your local hardware store are an excellent way to get a huge bunch of fabric for cheap - this one cost me $ 17, and I could probably make 15 more tote bags out of it.

Having gotten all the loose screws and other hardware out of my head, am now ready for all photographic business.

Do what the cavemen did; skin to skin contact is best at supercharging both your blood and his, but all contact counts, especially when you get out of the house alone with your baby on adventures to the hardware store.

The drop - side rail on the crib runs the risk of coming loose due to any number of issues such as faulty hardware, resulting in the railing to come detached where your baby can get trapped between the rail and the mattress or simply fall out.

The son of a hardware store owner on the Lower East Side, Mr. Silver was known as a poker - faced negotiator who often got his way during budget negotiations, sometimes by simply holding out the longest.

That's the extreme example, but I think when you're talking about PCs, you're talking about hardware companies, they don't control the software, that comes from Microsoft; so they don't have very much to differentiate themselves from the competitors; the cost pressures are incredibly high, they're focused on getting these products out the door, and they're sort of like interchangeable widgets.

Boric acid is a white powder available at hardware stores that can do everything from get stains out of your clothes to deodorize your fridge to kill pesky roaches crawling around your kitchen.

to get metal out as I still have hardware scraps of metal still in ankle, that they will not get out saying it might be in the bone by now.Very interested in Andys story and ideas.

Get the look by making your own tiebacks out of white, braided rope and chic gold hardware.

Forza Motorsport 7 is a worthy next step in the Forza franchise and shows that the team at Turn 10 are wizards when it comes to getting the most horsepower out of the Xbox hardware.

Tony Key, a Ubisoft marketing director, stated that that «Rainbow 6 got caught in the transition of going to next - gen and essentially we're figuring out «well, are we making the right game for the right hardware systems?»»

On the basis of Lady Bird and Get Out ending the weekend with no hardware, are their Best Picture aspirations done?

«There's something that really gets a rise out of our developers whenever they hear about new hardware,» Ichii told Famitsu.

If you were waiting for just this kind of news to hit before making your handheld hardware purchase, now is the time to check out what games you'll want to get started with.

We haven't had time to push into the nuances of the hardware on Xbox One to get the utmost out of it, so we've stuck with the safer route of a smaller resolution upgrade with custom settings.

Check out: http://mashable.com/2011/07/25/ipads-disabilities/ to get an answer to these questions on hardware and to discover how IPads are changing the lives of students with disabilities.

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This is primarily due to the extensive code and stuff the programmers employ to get the most out of the software AND Hardware.

The only thing that might make me get a ten incher (other than the size and presumably delicious price - point) is if they upgrade the hardware, add a camera, or allow root access out of the box.

Also hardware wise having the power button the back to get the tablet out of standby mode takes a bit of getting used to, where most tablets have it on the top or the sides.

The most notable hardware configuration change is actually the location of the microSD card slot under the battery door cover, which has been flipped around so it doesn't pull out and get jammed into the battery as it did with the Bold 9900 (I wonder if RIM made this change because of my issues with it).

With RIM now stretching its smartest people between pushing out the PlayBook with it's QNX - based OS and working on getting BlackBerry 6.1 out the door for the next generation of phone hardware, we suspect early 2011 to be in a bit of a phone drought.

Developer support for the PlayBook is also another sore point for the Canadian company, as developers continually become frustrated with the lack of updated tools and access to better APIs necessary in order to get the most out of the hardware to develop applications.

Developer support for the PlayBook is also another point of contention, as developers continually become frustrated with the lack of updated tools and access to better APIs necessary in order to get the most out of the hardware to develop applications.

Sony should just get out of its own way, do less, and let Android and the hardware speak for itself.

Dumping the hardware sales gets B&N out of a market fight they can not win in the long run.

Really, with this hardware you should at least get three or four solid years out of it before it becomes obsolete.

Barnes & Noble got out of the business of making its own tablets a long time ago but it found a way to work around the very expensive process of making your own hardware.

Covering hardware and software, everything is explained clearly and the addition of interactive pins to find out about precise buttons and features in different apps makes getting to grips with the Hudl really easy.

It's about time though that Amazon came out with some new hardware, the company is expected to unveil new Fire TV hardware by the end of this month and perhaps we'll get to see new tablets at the event too.