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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

” The longtime Microsoft hardware chief and executive vice president led the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams. Yusuf Mehdi will take on the responsibility of leading the Windows and Surface businesses with our OEM and Retail partners. He also led development of Windows 11.

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Glowforge cuts deal with Michaels to expand retail reach of its 3D laser printers

GeekWire

Glowforge has signed on with a new retail partner in a bid to get its 3D laser printers and other products in front of more customers who are already thinking about making and creating. Some hardware jobs will remain in-person jobs at Glowforge Labs in Seattle. .” (Glowforge Photo). and Canada.

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Xbox Series X/S launch and Game Pass push Microsoft’s quarterly gaming revenue past $5 billion

GeekWire

The November debut of the Xbox Series X and S, Microsoft’s entry into the ninth-generation console wars, spurred a full 86% increase in hardware revenue for the quarter, despite retail supplies for the new Xbox being sharply limited.

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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. Not to belabor the metaphor, but when it comes to Google’s hardware efforts, there’s a bit of a “darkest before the dawn” vibe. Hardware is hard. Hardware is hard,” Pichai says.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. Sonny Sonnenstein, SVP & CIO for retail, business, and digital banking, M&T Bank. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. M&T Bank.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work. It is also working with partners to help with hardware engineering and integrating IoT data into apps.

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Apple reportedly acquires startup that could turn iPhones into payment terminals

The Verge

And while Apple Pay lets shoppers tap their iPhones to pay at a retail store, adding Mobeewave could allow any iPhone to accept payments without extra hardware like a card reader. Rival phone manufacturer Samsung partnered with Mobeewave last year on a pilot point-of-sale program in Canada.

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