But when technical problems occur with a key hardware or software component all business can indeed grind to a halt.
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Because the technology is changing rapidly enough to demand ingenuity and imagination and because there is a software component to it.
Though the software component still needs to be built, the feedback from the forceplate could sense if a patient is about to lose his or her balance and compensate to keep the subject upright.
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The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.
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Samsung Electronics' award-winners include products in the TV, home theater system, mobile phone, tablet, home appliance, server, software, and computer component categories.
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Fusion-io is part of the Facebook and Apple megatrend (both are customers of Fusion) because they power the component flash and software.
Yet another key component of the software of the financial infrastructure is the set of rules and procedures used to resolve claims on a market participant that has defaulted on its obligations.
In fact probably 20-25% of all the exhibits at the 2012 VM World Conference were either storage system companies, storage component suppliers or storage software companies.
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an internationally leading non-profit standards organization, representing a global network of hardware, software, PC, display and component manufacturers committed to developing and promoting the electronics industry.
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The first major component of the network will be its software delivery and updates feature, which will be available starting next week, company officials said.
Download.com, CNET's software download website, offers antivirus software, some of which includes a "behavior" component and is free of charge.
Elliptic's software is in high demand by large OEM, ODMs and component and chip manufactures that are looking to integrate new capabilities allowing consumers to interact with tablets, ultrabooks and smartphones.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether computer software can take the place of the emotional coaching that makes up a major component of financial advisers' jobs.
People spend more time on mobile devices than they do on desktop or laptop computers, and if any software plans to stay relevant in the future, there must be a mobile component.
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"The fact that the NTSB is basically looking at every component around the battery, including the computer hardware and the (memory) software, means that they have no idea yet about a culprit and (they) suspect everything, " Ordonez said.
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Imagine in the future, your phone not only receiving a firmware update for its software, but also its circuits, because an electrical engineer figured out a more efficient way let a component perform its task!
Using the EDSAC he invented subroutines, an essential component of modern programming that allows developers to reuse bits of existing code to simplify the act of writing software.
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