The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for new ways to replace legacy code and decouple it from hardware, a key modernization objective touted by senior Pentagon IT officials ...

*And why on earth do they have to make its acronym "OSHW" for Open Source Hard Ware? Do they somehow expect OSWW Open Source Wet Ware? OSHW [edit] Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Draft Definition version ...

The Microsoft Surface and just-announced Nexus 7 tablet from Google indicate that we’re clearly seeing a trend toward more Apple-style integration of hardware and software design. The virtue of this ...

A software environment that includes the operating system and application. It is designed for installation in standard hardware that will be dedicated to running that single application. A "hardware ...

An interface between hardware and software. A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is generally used as a common driver for peripheral devices. The application calls the operating system; the OS calls the ...

FREMONT, Calif. — January 24, 2006 — InterVideo, Inc. (NASDAQ: IVII), an industry leader in DVD, MPEG and high-definition (HD) multimedia software technology, announced today that its H.264 Codec now ...

“History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes,” is a quote attributed to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). The current state of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements remind me much of the 1970s and ...

When you’re switching from a Windows PC to a Mac, there’s one piece of good news: Most of the peripherals you used with your PC—including printers, digital cameras, networking equipment, external ...

We believe Apple has solidified its long-term position at the forefront of the consumer electronics industry, focusing on a premium ecosystem of tightly integrated hardware, software, and services. We ...