Looking around his narrow, cluttered hardware store, he said it was the antithesis of a fancy franchise store, adding, "I now find myself wondering how this place will look as a Houlihan's or a T.G.I.
With some desktop-based browsers also starting to disable Java support, the applicability of Java-based web solutions becomes limited to a narrower set of hardware and software platforms.
BEIJING — Last Thursday, a van navigating the narrow streets of a hardware market in Foshan, in the southern province of Guangdong, struck and ran over a 2-year-old girl.
All this seems symptomatic of an agency that may not be in the best shape to determine by itself what went wrong -- both in the narrow sense of what hardware failed, and in the broader sense of what may have failed inside the agency or among its contractors.
Along with long-handled tongs, fire-resistant gloves, an instant-read thermometer and a broad stainless steel spackle knife from a hardware store (narrower and stronger than most spatulas), it's one of the basic tools for grilling over wood.
While it's easy to take a narrow view of VC-hardware investing based on the outcome of a few splashy tech gadgets, broadening our aperture just a bit shows us that large hardware businesses have been built across a variety of industries and business models, and many more successes are yet to come.
And venture capitalists provide entrepreneurs with advice, contacts and management skills as well as money.But most venture capital goes into just a narrow sliver of business: computer hardware and software, semiconductors, telecommunications and biotechnology.
Leading handset manufacturers are loathe to totally give up their role in software development, fearing that Microsoft's entry into the smartphone sector might doom them to the plight of PC makers, selling commodity hardware products with narrow profit margins.
To somewhat narrow the scope of work, only hardware projects raising $100K or more on Kickstarter or Indiegogo made the cut.
The tolerances of newer hardware components may be narrow, but everything should still fit without the need to apply too much force.
