However, not everyone has a computer at home, and some people may never get one.
Yet, if only 9% of UK children do not have access to a computer at home or school, as studies suggest, then screens are pervasive.
Remote access allowed workers to VPN into a corporate network to synch a corporate Exchange a ccount with a computer at home or while traveling.
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Overall, most children (89%) can get on to the internet via a computer at home but according to E-Learning Foundation this figure masks a divide between rich and poor.
"We work with the hardest-to-reach pupils, who may not have access to a computer at home, and often don't have basic IT skills, " said Martina Milburn, the Prince's Trust chief executive.
He said only 18% of people in low socio-economic groups had a computer at home, compared with 65% of those in higher social groups, and that the project would help bridge the "digital divide".
No, the statement is not that access to a computer at home is a basic human right, along with food, shelter and clothing that the rest of us must stump up taxes to pay for.
That is becoming increasingly important to customers: watching TV while on the move, streaming music from the Internet or synchronising data with a computer at home or in the office - for many people, those are everyday applications in today's world.
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There will also be efforts to make sure that children from more deprived backgrounds do not lose out because of a lack of computer equipment at home, with a pilot scheme examining ways of reducing this "digital divide".
Technology is central to the lives of these youngsters - 97% reported having access to a computer and the internet at home, 77% said they had their own computer.
Around 88% of respondents had a computer with internet access at home, with 93% of those polled saying they have heard of Facebook.
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In fact, a colleague and I published a paper just last year describing how to do this, and we released a free software package that allows anyone to test their BRCA genes at home on a desktop computer.
With many users starting to use computer monitors to play console games, if the Xbox can run Explorer, Office, Skype and most if not all the other 3rd party apps, then a lot of people might just buy an Xbox instead of a PC as their primary computer at home.
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Real estate agents have used it to show off properties - potential buyers sitting at home in front of a computer screen can use the mouse to look at every corner of a room or to see what the view is like over the balcony.
On a recent US Airways flight, my computer was slower than it is at home and dawdled a bit as I searched Stubhub for tickets to baseball's spring training.
Some users may not realize what they say on a social media site -- whether it be at home or work, on a company computer or a personal computer -- can be grounds for firing.
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More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a computer, official figures suggest.
The computer was taken during a break-in at the home of Leeds Rhinos' coach Rich Hundwick on Wednesday.
Back at home in Minneapolis, he started a computer networking business and made enough money to make his dream come true.
Traystman tells me that his client saw a few incriminating things on the computer he shares with his wife at home that made him suspect that there would be more evidence in her social networking accounts.
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Eventually she found what she was looking for in a computer record at Mamayev Kurgan - just two miles (3km) from her home.
Last summer the computer flashed a "buy" signal for home building stocks, whose earnings were growing at 10% to 20%.
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She said, at the most basic level, lack of a home internet connection or a computer could mean that children struggled to research homework or complete coursework and were unable to access school websites which allow pupils to submit work digitally and receive feedback from teachers.
According to a court document filed by Twin Capital, the hedge fund firm purchased the computer for Simon to use at his home and only he knew the password.
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Nearly every business person today has been using technology at work and at home for two decades, and most are more than passably familiar with a variety of computer technologies.
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At his trial, the High Court in Edinburgh was told Ramzan, 40, began trading from a bedroom at his home in Broughty Ferry, with only a telephone, a fax machine and a computer to access the internet.
Back home, his superiors at Toshiba were mildly surprised when a number of U.S. computer companies, including Intel and also some automobile manufacturers, asked for samples.
Where workers work at home, the company can still be held to be their employer by providing them with a computer, internet access, telephone service, furniture, supplies, etc.
Every time a new gene is linked to a disease, people will be able to search their genomes using their home personal computer to learn whether they are at risk so that they can decide what, if anything, to do about it.
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