If Google isn't building its own smartwatch hardware, acquiring WIMM Labs could be a way to help it develop a custom version of Android designed for wrist-mounted wearables, which it could then provide to OEMs the same way it currently does with Android proper.
Oracle too spent most of its recent customer conference talking about its data warehousing appliances made out of hardware it acquired in the purchase of Sun Microsystems.
His thoughts drifted to the past 12 months, to his decision to forgo the N.B.A. draft and return to college, to his prolonged shooting slump, to the hardware he acquired Monday night.
In many cases, delaying the verification actions until the hardware is acquired and installed may cause some drawbacks, for example, from the economic point of view.
Only one patient with small number of metal dental hardware was acquired with a jaw spacer installed, showing a reduction of artifact volume by 49.3% when reconstructed with the dedicated iterative metal artifact reduction algorithm (3.4 ± 6.7 ml).
It announced the initiative back in March, with a PS4-based accessory that competes directly with Oculus Rift, the startup hardware recently acquired by Facebook.
The new device maker, HMD, was founded last year by a group of senior ex-Nokians, with the explicit aim of (exclusively) licensing Nokia's brand name for new mobile hardware — having acquired the relevant rights from former owner, Microsoft back in May.
Apple (Beats, PrimeSense), the world's largest hardware company, also acquired a few hardware startups for brand or technology.
In some cases, the tools are software-based, but one can also use hardware to acquire evidence from suspect machines.
Our experimental results show that recent developments in commodity computers favor parallel architectures designed to use framebuffer readback and pixel transfer over commodity networks versus specialized hardware for acquiring and aggregating pixel data.
