GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2020

Philips alleged that Summit built software designed to hack into its ultrasound machines and other devices as a way to get around stringent access controls regulating how the hardware can be used. Summit CEO Lawrence Nguyen, a veteran of companies including AT&T and Microsoft, launched the company in 2006. Summit Imaging Photo).

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The Verge

JULY 4, 2021

Earlier this year, I did something weird: I bought an iPod 5th generation, originally manufactured back in 2006. Most of, if not all, of Apple’s devices also can’t play the highest-end lossless files that Apple Music can now deliver without additional hardware. That doesn’t happen with my 2006 iPod. An iPod could be just that.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2021

A hardware refresh would have been the perfect opportunity for Nintendo to address these issues. For one thing, most of the bonuses on the OLED edition are specifically there to benefit the hardware’s portable mode. Left, a launch edition 2004 Nintendo DS; right, a 2006 Nintendo DS Lite. Thomas Wilde Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Then in 2006 Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, CUDA, that could be programmed directly in C to accelerate mathematical processing, simplifying its use in parallel computing. Nvidia says its hardware, software, and services can cut early-stage drug discovery from months to weeks.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Yoky Matsuoka was a University of Washington professor from 2006 to 2011. The goal was to create technology to help families, leveraging Panasonic’s hardware expertise. Hardware and related services are still part of the long-term plan, but in the meantime, the pandemic has created different priorities.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Analogue has made a name for itself by releasing a stream of high-end hardware designed to play old games. The concept is simple: while many of these older games have aged well, the hardware hasn’t, and Analogue is creating a way to preserve them by making them playable on modern televisions. It’s also far and away the best.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

According to IBM’s official mainframe life cycle history , each generation of hardware typically remains on sale for 4.1 years after its launch in June 2006. Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

If you want a more powerful laptop or desktop, then you’re still getting the old Intel models — models that, while still not on Apple Silicon hardware, also haven’t been updated with new Intel hardware in over a year and a half either. But a year in, and only Apple’s least powerful devices have made the change.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The hardware may be new, but the new Macs are still, well, Macs. Back when Apple switched from PowerPC chips to Intel in 2006, the first laptops and desktops released with the new chips looked almost identical to the ones that came before. It would have been relatively easy to introduce more substantial external changes along with it.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware. The original Rosetta was released in 2006 to facilitate Apple’s transition from PowerPC to Intel. Apple claims improved performance over the original version of Rosetta from 2006.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Now that we know most of the details about both the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, the tale of the tape says that, on a hardware level, the two systems are very similar. One big difference, though, comes from the changes between versions of the hardware. Is Sony’s victory a foregone conclusion? It seems to think so.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 29, 2017

From a Titanium PowerBook G4 to multiple generations of aluminum MacBook Pros to (finally) a MacBook Air, I’m familiar with the quality and reliability of Apple hardware. Heck, my 2006-era MacBook Pro was in active use until just last year. Look, I get it—I used an Apple laptop for 14 years.

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2006, the company released a programming language called CUDA that, in short, unleashed the power of its graphics cards for more general computing processes. Whether Nvidia can keep offering meaningful hardware and software improvements that convince its customers to buy its latest AI chips could be a challenge, says Bajarin.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. And its value proposition was simple and uncomplicated: Consolidate applications, reduce hardware sprawl. Now the industry had its proof-point: There were times when full-up IT automation, without visibility into hardware implementation, worked and was useful.

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 10, 2013

After all, millions of people own identical hardware/software configurations of iPhones, Android-based phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. ► 2006. (2). The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World? What makes your phone your phone? Or, for that matter, what makes your desktop, your laptop or your tablet yours?

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Fountainhead

JULY 7, 2009

within the first hour he blurts out "then if a customer uses this stuff, they should be able get five-9s of availability from run-of-the-mill hardware, right?" And if/when the hardware craps-out, it is software that automatically swaps-in a new resource. ► 2006. (2). I begin this blog with a true story. Think about it.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2020

The game is a PC VR staple, having first come out in Early Access in 2006, soon after the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets kicked off the first round of VR hype. I will just warn you that this is definitely not for anyone who isn’t down with jump scares. As VR experiences go, it’s pretty intense.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2021

I spoke with ZmBIZI co-founder Alpesh Patel , the former director of sales at Motorola in Africa and founder of Mi-Fone in Africa, who explained ZmBIZI’s ambitions on both the hardware and software fronts. Or the Saygus company that raised money in 2006 for a new phone that was never made and ended up defrauding investors.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

SFGate published a story in 2006 about a man who got a recycled number and was barraged with texts from various women, which both displeased his fianceé and were charged to him because, again, this was in 2006, when pay-per-text was much more common. Use an authenticator app or hardware key instead.

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The Verge

JUNE 20, 2020

The company is still expected to unveil the first look at the future of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — the various suites of software that power all of Apple’s hardware. Another rumor suggests that blood oxygen tracking might be coming to watchOS 7, although, like sleep tracking, it’s unclear if that’ll depend on new hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. x86 marches on! Technology Short Take #37.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. By the way, I alluded to this sort of architecture in December 2006 while discussing the future of the operating system; see this blog post.).

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One example: Google seems to be unclear about how much it wants to prioritize its hardware line. “There is that fear that people aren’t working hard enough, but what I see is a lot of people working hard with unclear business priorities,” said a Google employee. Maybe they’re not making the best business decisions, but they don’t know that.”.

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 25, 2011

Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. ► 2006. (63).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. December 2006 (43).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. December 2006 (43).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

The company has been working with HP to build its servers, but with its latest hardware refresh (known as G4) has opted for customized servers built by Quanta , a Taiwanese company that has built servers for Facebook and Rackspace. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35).

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Especially in manufacturing-based industries, introducing more software that complements hardware can eliminate fixed costs and allow you to quickly scale up to a global level. And Mittelstand companies have fantastic opportunities, provided they digitize more of their existing business models.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. We’re reducing the amount of hardware that we need, and increasing agility by using the cloud to replicate business processes. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). August 2006 (31).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. For example, software-defined networking has been coined as an approach in which networking control is decoupled from hardware and controlled by a software application. It must be hardware agnostic.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

LoPoCo says it is using Intel Xeon “brawny core” chips and standard form factors, and gaining energy savings through its hardware design. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

We’ve enabled customers to leverage unprecedented productivity and connectivity because, in hardware, we’ve pioneered seven generations of Wi-Fi products over the last two decades and increased Wi-Fi speeds by 100 times since our first smartphone chip. He has held this position since March 2006.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chang served as the director of research at the National Security Agency (NSA)in 2005-2006, where he was awarded the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal. These students will be better suited to live, work, and play in the modern interconnected world.”.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“One thing we’ve learned from these customers is that dedicated hardware (whether bare metal or with virtualization) isn’t going away. In many cases, dedicated hardware will play a key role.”. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35). August 2006 (31).

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

PAN Manager is the "secret sauce" Egenera has been using to manage its own hardware for years, and recently OEMd to Dell as part of their Dell PAN System. That means that Egeneras own hardware -- as well as Dell Blades -- not only operates with a " unified computing " architecture (as some would call it!), ► 2006. (2).

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