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Ace Hardware

Home improvement expert Lou Manfredini serves as Ace's "Helpful Hardware Man" and media spokesperson.

Applied engineering

Applied Engineering, a hardware vendor for the Apple II series of computers

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles endorses: Paiste, Mapex, Evans, Pro-Mark, Audio-Technica, DW Pedals, Gibraltar Hardware, Zoom, Staff Drum, Santo Angelo, Urban Boards, Ciclotron, Shred Cases, AeroRic Custom Drums, Tander Tattoo Studio and Lady Snake Rock Wear.

ArrayComm

The company's hardware solutions enjoyed their greatest commercial successes in Australia and South Africa under the iBurst brand name which continues to be owned by Kyocera.

Astra 2D

Some channels on 2D are encrypted with Videoguard (a proprietary encryption method by the NDS Group) and only Sky Digiboxes with valid cards, or standard hardware with non-approved (with respect to the Sky/NDS end-user contract) "Dragon", or "T-Rex" Conditional Access Modules can decode these channels.

Brad Garlinghouse

He is an active angel investor in hardware company Pure Storage and AI startup Diffbot.

Breakpoint

Many processors include hardware support for breakpoints (typically instruction and data breakpoints).

Cemetech

Cemetech began as a personal website hosted on Homestead and later GeoCities, publishing personal software and hardware projects.

Central Point Software

COPY II PC's main competitor was Quaid Software's CopyWrite, which did not have a hardware component.

Computer compatibility

Hardware that is compatible may not always run at its highest stated performance, but it can nevertheless work with legacy components.

Crysis 3

After Crysis 2 received some criticism from many PC gamers because of the apparent design sacrifices made due to the limitations of the older console hardware, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli stated that the PC version of Crysis 3 will figuratively "melt down PCs" due to its highest image quality system requirements.

Deweyville, Utah

Saloons, a brewery, two boarding houses, a barber shop, and lumber, hardware, and merchandise businesses were opened.

Digital performance

It was during this time that computer hardware was built to become much more “user – friendly” and we then witnessed the invention of the digital camera and the home PC’s (Personal Computer) and the establishment of the World Wide Web.

Drive bay

A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer.

Embedded Wizard

It provides a WYSIWYG front-end for editing graphics, effects and logic of the user interface and generates ANSI C code for a particular target hardware.

Esterel Technologies

Esterel Technologies is a supplier of model-based design, validation, and code generation tools for safety-critical software and hardware applications.

Falcon Northwest

In 2005, Falcon Northwest's President, Kelt Reeves, had a heated exchange with HardOCP, an online magazine geared towards the PC hardware enthusiast and PC gaming communities.

FELICS

It was successfully implemented in hardware and deployed as part of HiRISE on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Four Candles

The sketch opens with a throwaway joke as the hardware shopkeeper (Corbett) hands a lady a roll of toilet paper, saying "mind how you go".

Free and open-source graphics device driver

The functional blocks (i.e. the display driver ASIC, the 3D acceleration ASIC, the 2D acceleration ASIC, Video decoding and Video encoding ASIC) are separate SIP (SIP) blocks, since the hardware devices are very different from each other.

Gdium

The Gdium netbook is marketed as an interface device to the Gdium "learning community" -- a website that provides hardware support, MIPS builds of Open Source software, Linux computing tips, and educational resources targeted towards teachers and students within the K-12 demographic.

Hardware certification

Big established enterprises like Cisco, Novell, Sun Microsystems etc., no longer manufacture all the hardware required in the market, instead they ‘license’ or ‘certify’ small hardware players operating out from countries like Taiwan or China.

Hardware description language

A hardware description language enables a precise, formal description of an electronic circuit that allows for the automated analysis, simulation, and simulated testing of an electronic circuit.

Henry Probasco

Henry Probasco (born in Newtown, Connecticut on 4 July 1820; died 25 October 1902) was an American hardware magnate noted for the Probasco Fountain and the Henry Probasco House.

Hhgregg

Its retail products include video products comprising televisions as well as DVD recorders; home appliances, such as refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, freezers, washers, and dryers; and other products and services, including audio hardware, mattresses, computers, and other selected consumer electronics and accessories.

Home Hardware

On January 11, 2003, Home Hardware received unexpected worldwide exposure, when a T-shirt worn by Avril Lavigne during a performance on Saturday Night Live featured her hometown of Napanee, Ontario and the local hardware store there.

Human68k

Hardware-dependent operations are performed by the X68000's IOCS.

IBM Systems Network Architecture

While IBM is still providing support for SNA, one of the primary pieces of hardware, the 3745/3746 communications controller, has been withdrawn from the market by IBM.

ICL Series 39

Trimetra in turn was replaced by Fujitsu's mainframe platform, Nova, which emulates the Trimetra architecture on generic Unisys ES7000 Intel-based server hardware.

Imagineering

Imagineering Australia, a microcomputer software and hardware distributor founded by Australian businessman Jodee Rich.

Narayana Gowda

After 6 years, he returned to Bangalore to join the South India Computer Ltd, a hardware assembly company in Koramangala, and from there moved to the Vysya Bank and from there to start Pushpa Garments and put his hand into financing and the Srimata Audio Cassette company.

NEC µPD7220

Bruce Daniels pointed out that the Lisa primarily used raster graphics (known as bitmap graphics at the time), which could be implemented with less expensive hardware support.

Novatel Wireless

In June 2009, Virgin Mobile and Novatel jointly announced the start of a pay-as-you go mobile data program called "Broadband2Go" in the United States, using Novatel Wireless hardware, and available exclusively through the Best Buy chain of stores.

PC Answers

It ran several series of articles on overclocking, a "Danger! Don't Try This At Home!" section which reviewed hardware projects such as the Stone Soupercomputer and Tomohiro Kawada's dual Celeron PC .

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

As of November 1988, IBM was shipping a workstation version of the System/370 hardware intended to run IBM's VM/SP operating system.

PCCW Solutions

Unihub signed three-year contract with Dragonair in the provision of professional services on systems integration, hardware and software support, upgrades and maintenance of Oracle E-Business Suite-related applications.

Securities Industry Automation Corporation

It also owns communication lines and hardware to provide real-time quotes and transaction information to all market participants from the Consolidated Tape/Ticker System (CTS), Consolidated Quotation System (CQS), and Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA).

Seth Bullock

In August 1876, he and Star decided an untapped market for hardware existed in the gold rush town of Deadwood, South Dakota.

Software fault tolerance

Software fault tolerance is the ability of computer software to continue its normal operation despite the presence of system or hardware faults.

SSETI Express Satellite

The purpose of Express is to take pictures of the Earth, act as a test-bed and technology demonstrator for ESEO hardware, and also function as a radio transponder for the global amateur radio community.

Synchronous Data Link Control

Other vendors putting hardware support for SDLC (and the slightly different HDLC) into communication controller chips of the 1980s included Intel, Zilog, Motorola, and National Semiconductor.

Synthetic instrument

An analogy to this relationship between specific measurement hardware versus generic hardware with its function totally defined in software is the relationship between specific digital circuits and a general purpose CPU.

Ten Sleep, Wyoming

Ten Sleep Mercantile, also known as Ten Sleep Hardware, is an example of a typical small-town general store and it has been the focal point of the town since it was built in 1905 by H.T. Church.

TrueMoneyGames

TrueMoneyGames also implemented a hardware random number generator designed by the Swedish company Protego, which is based on quantum physics.

UEI

United Electronic Industries, a U.S. based data acquisition hardware manufacturer.

United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program

Lipetsk today has many of the old, current, and new Russian Air Force hardware, including the Sukhoi Su-34 and Yakovlev Yak-130.

Vpro

Intel vPro, a set of features built into a PC's motherboard and other hardware

Windows Hardware Certification Kit

It provides automated scheduling and execution of the driver tests that hardware vendors are required to pass in order to qualify to use the Microsoft Designed for Windows Logo.

WMV HD

These low-complexity codecs make it possible to watch high definition movies in 1280×720 (720p) or 1920×1080 (1080p) resolutions on many modern personal computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista, although the hardware requirements are steep.

XML appliance

Message-oriented middleware appliances - are hardware devices supporting the sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems.


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