In April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
My favorite product that I saw at the South By Southwest conference was a PC-based music creation product called Zya.
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More big moves: in April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
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Until smartphone-class devices become powerful enough to run Flash acceptably (or Hulu supports other video playback methods), a PC-based architecture will generally have the advantage in this burgeoning category.
From what we can tell, it's basically a PC-based DVR (running on XP Home, rather than Media Center) that ships with a base unit and two remote boxes that can be connected via Ethernet.
Customers can order a PC-based system and pick from licensed game packs from companies like Atari, Midway, Sega, and Capcom, or plus in their own Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and use the cabinet and its large screen and durable controls for a retro gaming experience.
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In addition, consumers can automatically sync their AppZone apps with Android-based devices via BlueStacks Cloud Connect, a cloud-based service that enables a Windows-based PC to become an extension of an Android mobile device and vice versa1.
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Dell used this strategy almost flawlessly to dominate PCs--and, again, to attack the server business, Compaq in particular, with a handful of PC-based products in 1995.
Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
It will also play MP3 music files that can be loaded from a Windows-based PC.
If that box is a Windows-based PC, Microsoft has nothing to worry about.
The greatest percentage (14 percent) bought a PC for a home-based business, followed by educational purposes for adults (12 percent) and children (11 percent).
The last time we saw Steve Ballmer star in a commercial for Microsoft, he was extolling the virtues of a 286-based PC running the glory that was Windows 1.0 -- in 1986.
Included: a palmtop computer (touted as the smallest Windows-based PC), a DVD player and a personal digital assistant that is phone, fax, modem, pager and electronic organizer all in one.
January 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from something that transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine that allowed direct ordering over broadband.
Vodafone's PC-based technology could pose a threat to builders of wireless broadband networks based on wi-fi hotspots.
Last year, Sony bought Gakai, a cloud-based gaming company that let PC gamers stream top games via broadband.
The Sandwell-based PC was in a critical condition following the incident and died shortly before 23:00 GMT on Thursday.
But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
The new Afterburner utility allows the Android-based smartphones and tablets to adjust or monitor Afterburner settings on PC over a Wi-Fi connection.
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Currently there are more than a dozen designs in development based on this new low-power offering and they are expected to enable a full PC experience in innovative mobile form factors including tablets and Ultrabook convertibles.
At Computex, a total of 65 Windows 8-based tablet and PC devices will be exhibited, Microsoft said.
The Taipei-based PC maker said the resignation reflected a board split on the future direction of the company.
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The problem with Windows 8 is that Microsoft decided to shove a highly inefficient touch-based user interface onto millions of PC users using non-touch desktops and notebooks.
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HP's PC money came from retail, while Compaq had a profitable Web-based business.
The first Palm-based PDAs were marketed as a companion to the PC.
Stepping up to that plate, the folks at PC Perspective loaded up Vista on a pair of ATI and NVIDIA-based gaming rigs to see if one played more nicely with the OS than the other.
In 1985 I became VP of Sales for a start-up called Applied Control Systems (ACS) that made PC based inventory and accounting software for restaurants.
Sixteen years ago, Massachusetts-based VisiCorp was a major software company, having fueled the PC revolution by commercializing the worlds first spreadsheet, VisiCalc.
The product includes a powerful Wi-Fi router and a cloud-based application that can be accessed from any smartphone, tablet or PC, from any location.
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