1.   The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools.

2.   Ann Symington is an heiress to fortunes made in the chemical and hardware industries.

3.   Bernoff said Microsoft in part was backing standards that were developed by the hardware industry itself.

4.   But as always in the computer hardware industry, products keep adding more abilities while decreasing in price, and the newest models come with color printers and scanners.

5.   But the annual trade show of the hardware industry is hard to beat for sheer variety.

6.   Microsoft in the past has tried to prod the highly competitive hardware industry to follow its lead, with mixed success.

7.   Such commercial support from the hardware industry would seem to be a necessary prerequisite if business computer users are to rely on free software.

8.   The PC software industry is out of sync with the PC hardware industry.

9.   Shiv Nadar, an electrical engineer from PSG College of Engineering, Coimbatore, was the first to make an impact in the computer hardware industry.

10.   The deal gives Apple a key supply source in one of the fastest growing markets in the multimedia hardware industry.