Sentences with phrase «hardware efforts»

As a side note, this does not signal a larger shift for our other hardware efforts.

«It's a sign that they want to be more impactful and have a seat at the table,» he said of Facebook's hardware efforts with Building 8.

When you create a follow - up hardware effort, you attempt to right the wrongs of the predecessor.

Although a second - generation Fire Phone launch seems unlikely, at least in the short term, and Amazon's hardware efforts overall are in

Seen on the new About page, a large section dedicated to the company's hardware efforts highlights the Steam Controller and Steam Link.

Julie Larson - Green, who had led all Microsoft hardware efforts, will now report to Qi Lu as chief experience officer.

Last September, the once lauded handset manufacturer BlackBerry Limited confirmed it will no longer be building its own mobile devices, outsourcing all of its internal hardware efforts to third - party phone - makers like China's TCL Corporation.

Rick Osterloh Google appointment creates new SVP position overseeing the bulk of Google's commercial hardware efforts.

As Google's hardware efforts accelerated, it seemed odd that Alphabet would keep Nest as a separate hardware company that could potentially compete with what Google was cooking up.

With their respective hardware efforts, Google and Amazon are betting on a future of the technology industry in which the center of computing moves away from the PC and the smartphone to other devices.

Facebook has tapped one of its most veteran execs to lead all of its consumer hardware efforts, including the mysterious Building 8 division responsible for its forthcoming video chat device.

To: Microsoft — All Employees From: Terry Myerson Date: Wednesday 5/25, 2AM Pacific Time Subject: Focusing our phone hardware efforts

It was pretty hard to take Xiaomi's rookie virtual reality hardware effort seriously with a name like Toy Edition (or even Mi VR Play), not to mention the... unconventional zipper design and Lycra build, but the follow - up is a whole different story.

Some saw it as Google's way of quietly dropping support for the wearable devices, so that it could focus more on its own AI - centric hardware efforts.

Even Alphabet's self - driving company Waymo, which says it's possible it will supply its self - driving tech to automakers but in the meantime is working on its own cars in partnership with those automakers, brought their hardware efforts in - house in an attempt to edge out traditional suppliers.

BlackBerry, which has been known in the past for being a dominant brand in the smartphone industry has since moved to focusing its efforts on software only after outsourcing its hardware efforts to TCL, allowing it more time to zero -LSB-...]

Microsoft's Andromeda project is both a software and hardware effort.

The discussions may have been no more than a desperate BlackBerry trying to gauge interest from Mark Zuckerberg's empire; Facebook's hardware efforts have been scattershot at best, making this seem like an awfully strange fit.

The company and its hardware efforts have certainly come a long way since then but the Kindle has been there every step of the way.

Amazon's hardware efforts will soon extend into the smartphone space, with the ecommerce giant debuting a new handset this fall, according to a report.

Valve is a juggernaut in gaming thanks to Steam, the dominant online marketplace for PC games, and we've been excited to see the result of its hardware efforts since we first caught wind of its mythical PC console back in 2012.

It seems Google is ramping up its hardware efforts.

Spotify is cranking up its hardware efforts, building out its team as the streaming music company prepares to launch what's expected to be its first smart speaker.

Google's newest in - house laptop ditches the Chromebook branding entirely, instead favoring the label of «Pixelbook», seemingly in an attempt to unify all their hardware efforts under the Pixel naming scheme.

The Google Pixel 2 XL is a stunning fruit to bear from the company's still - young focus on melding its software and hardware efforts.

The move to the Surface group underlines a recent organizational change at Microsoft that aligns Xbox hardware and Surface hardware into a single division, with former Windows chief Julie Larson - Green now responsible for all of Microsoft's hardware efforts.

The move comes as part of a broader push to streamline the company's hardware efforts, according to a Reuters report citing people familiar with the matter.

With a new Google Home speakers and a new Pixelbook launched alongside the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL, Google seems to be ramping up its hardware efforts, and taking an Apple - like approach to developing both hardware and software in the future.

And that hardware effort appears to be on the ropes.

«Rick Osterloh has joined Google as SVP and will be overseeing a new team, unifying many of our hardware efforts from across the company,» a Google spokeswoman told press.

Before speaking to the Chromecast's sales, Pichai mentioned «We realized a lot of computing intersections happen at the intersection of hardware and software,» referring to early this year when the company put former Motorola CEO Rick Osterloh in charge of its hardware efforts.

According to two sources, the reason behind the suspension is that the company is now looking to streamline its hardware efforts.

Now, more details about Facebook's hardware efforts have been outed with executive Andrew Bosworth leading the company's plans for its consumer hardware.

Microsoft's Andromeda project is both a software and hardware effort.

The technology combines the hardware efforts with some software algorithms to produce sharp, crisp and colorful images.

We know that Google hired former Motorola CEO Rick Osterloh earlier this year to help unify its hardware efforts, so it's entirely possible that this change is part of his work.

While it looks Surface - inspired, sources familiar with Microsoft's Xbox work tell us that Mike Angiulo's team helped build the new Xbox ahead of Surface chief Panos Panay's rise to leader of Microsoft's hardware efforts.

That's not really Osterloh's problem, since he's in charge of Google's hardware efforts.

Those hoping for a classy software overhaul from Samsung to match its hardware efforts are in for a disappointment.

Originally, Nest was supposed to be the core of Google's hardware efforts, but instead Google decided to create a separate division to produce its Nexus, Pixel, Chromecast, and Google Home devices.

Osterloh will be in charge of Google's hardware efforts, like Nexus, Chromecast and Google Glass.

The move represents a serious expansion of Google's hardware efforts, and the most obvious application of the new engineering talent is in its line of Pixel smartphones.

A lot has changed since then, and at the time, many expected the company's hardware efforts to fail.