Nike Pulls The Plug On Wearable Hardware
The wearables market is only getting started but one of the early entrants, Nike, is pulling the plug on its wearable hardware. The company has apparently decided to focus more on fitness-related software.
The wearables market is only getting started but one of the early entrants, Nike, is pulling the plug on its wearable hardware. The company has apparently decided to focus more on fitness-related software.
Firefox OS may be far from being a contender in the smartphone arena but the Mozilla team has been quietly and consistently building it. A number of vendors have unveiled Firefox OS devices at MWC this year, showing significant improvements.
Google’s Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world, at least when gauging from the number of Android handsets sold. Motorola is now undertaking a similar project, except that it is in the domain of hardware. The company has unveiled Ara, a hardware platform which would let you create customizable smartphones.
Sony has been gearing up for its next gaming console for quite a while now. And the company has been successful in making many headlines with the new PS4. Apparently, Nvidia had an opportunity to be the hardware provider for the new console but the company turned down that offer.
Since its inception, Apple has primarily been a hardware company. It came up with the Mac, then subsequent computing machines, laptops and in a more recent age, music players, smartphones and tablets. However, Tim Cook reminds us, Apple is not just a hardware company, the software component is also becoming a critical part of it.
Valve is a wildly popular phenomenon among the gamer community. Its game distribution engine, Steam, has recently stepped into the software arena as well and there had been reports that the company was also planning to launch its own hardware. Now, Valve is inviting people to fill out its survey and express their interest, and expertise, in playtesting its hardware prototypes.
Valve is known as one of the most successful and innovative software companies around the world. Software is naturally its forte with special focus on gaming. In the past, there have been rumors that Valve may jump in the computer hardware bandwagon soon. It now seems that the company is finally living up to this.
Computer Hardware’s drivers can sometimes cause huge problems when you have to install them on your computer and especially when you decide to buy a printer, scanner, graphics card, monitor, web camera, network card, or any other hardware for your computer. No matter which hardware you buy it is usually accompanied by a CD on which are the drivers located. These drivers allow Windows to recognize and be able to interact with your hardware. So you must install them in order to properly and effectively use your newly bought hardware. The problem is that in case of crash and reinstalling Windows, you need to reinstall all the drivers for your hardware too, that is to say find all the drivers CD’s or search them one by one on the Internet , hoping that they are always available. To greatly simplify the task, you can save all hardware drivers already installed on your computer. In this tutorial I will show you how to use a free tool called DriverMax which will help you to easily backup, restore and manage all your drivers.