11.   Good hardware makers make drivers for their stuff available on the Web.

12.   Hardware makers, such as Hitachi, that cooperate with pure software companies might not be so cozy with EMC.

13.   Hardware makers like the Hewlett Packard Co. and the Digital Equipment Corp. account for most of the rest.

14.   In separate conference calls with reporters, American Online and Gateway asserted that their deal represented an inevitable convergence of hardware makers and Internet providers.

15.   It seemed as if both Microsoft and the hardware makers who had created hand-held computers to use Windows CE were almost apologetic about bringing them to market.

16.   It would be the foundation for tens of thousands of vibrant software applications and an intensely competitive market of hardware makers all vying to compete on price and performance.

17.   Launch will also be included as a bundled offering from hardware makers.

18.   Microsoft officials argue that Java is useful as a programming language but not as a way to share software among competing hardware makers.

19.   Neither the federal government nor the networks nor the hardware makers have agreed upon a clear set of rules and standards for what digital broadcasts will be.

20.   Now he has to help HP turn the whole ship on a dime, at least in terms of what was once a cash cow for hardware makers.