In February, it announced broad update of its products and services aimed at building those intelligent systems and dealing with the massive amounts of data they would create.
EA fuels demand by encouraging gamers totake a "Madden vacation" from work so they can be first in line to buy the latest update of its most popular game when it is released every August.
A.M.D.'s product introduction comes less than a week after Intel tried to upstage it with a server update of its own: new Xeon server processors that bundle together two chips that each have the circuitry of two processing engines.
Looking to take advantage of the trend of people switching from Windows to Macs, Parallels has launched an update of its software, the Switch to Mac Edition, to make it easier to move data from Windows computers to new Macs.
Although a Web-enabled update of its core Netware product was well received two years ago, it sold primarily to existing users, and did not dent sales of the Microsoft Corporation's competing products, Windows NT and Windows 2000.
In the latest update of its stylebook, the state broadcaster, RTVE, said Saturday that it would not broadcast bullfights, in particular because they "generally coincide with hours protected or specially protected for children".
AOL Time Warner announced the charge as part of a broader update of its financial prospects.
The update of its headquarters sign certainly turned heads in downtown Detroit.
Ford will soon introduce an update of its Taurus sedan, as well as some new small cars.
Pentax is taking its compact Optio W60, an update of its waterproof cameras, even deeper underwater to find customers.
Gilt is already busy working on the next update of its mobile app, which will add more mobile-exclusive features.
