Sentence examples for rival hardware from inspiring English sources

Hewlett-Packard's $18 billion write-off in 2012 was a repudiation of a decade of mistakes, including the 2011 takeover of Autonomy, a software firm, but also of Compaq, a rival hardware maker, way back in 2002.

It is something that rival hardware makers have struggled to emulate and a reputation that could potentially be damaged with the introduction of a cheaper device, as my colleague Brian X. Chen reported last week.

Hewlett Packard's (HP) $18 billion write-off in 2012 was a repudiation of a decade of mistakes, including the 2011 takeover of Autonomy, a software firm, but also of Compaq, a rival hardware maker, way back in 2002.

Veritas has partnerships with Hitachi, Sun, Oracle and others, getting access to design details and joint development and marketing efforts that a rival hardware company wouldn't get.

"For example, Samsung could request first or exclusive updates of new software from Android before rival hardware vendors".

It's about the unique situation IBM was in when working with both Sony and Microsoft and helping design rival hardware.

Apple, for its part, has been trying to resolve complaints from European consumer advocates, who say its system should be made to work with rivals' hardware and software.

Energy costs will continue to rise and will rival annual hardware spending by 2010, Mr Scaramella predicts (see chart).

The shares of Sega, the struggling video game company, bucked the downward trend in Japan's stock market and rose sharply today on speculation that it would soon focus on developing game software for rival manufacturers' hardware.

Though it had a long-running "Mac v PC" advertising series, intended to dig at Microsoft's Windows software, it never mentioned any hardware rival by name.

But in the fourth quarter, Dell ousted hardware rival IBM to seize the region's No. 3 slot.