One London-based computer expert said the development should help light-based data transmission go mainstream in server farms.
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Allinvain speculated the thieves made off with the windfall after using malware to compromise his Windows-based computer.
Toshiba , another Japan-based computer maker, has been following a similar strategy with its Portege and Satellite lines.
The early customers for this new Chrome OS based computer (with no admin-costs) are American Airlines, Intercontinental Hotels and some retailers.
Alongside the HTC-made handset are an altitude and orbit control system, two propulsion setups and a Linux-based computer with a "high-speed" processor.
Intel (INTC) : Like Oracle, this California-based computer-chip power has morphed from a flashy tech sector darling to a steady, reliable performer.
UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
U.S.-based computer professional Avinash Chopde has created ITRANS, a program that transcribes words into Indian scripts, including Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu and Sanskrit.
Last month, the Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker was hammered by investors for falling short of profit targets, despite stronger than expected sales growth.
Acer acquired the California-based computer company in 2007 and continues to sell products under the Gateway name, particularly at big box stores like Best Buy.
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The place where something like that would be most useful would have to a pen-based computer of some kind, perhaps a tablet computer, or other walk-around device.
Amman-based computer engineer Ala Suleiman hopes to revive this custom.
The FLY, for lack of a better description, is essentially a pen-based computer for kids that lets you write stuff down on paper and then interact with your drawings.
That, says Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer-virus company, is bound to be a low-margin business, as all it really involves is translation from English into Japanese.
That's helped the Round Rock, Texas-based computer giant grow its share of the worldwide PC market to 15.6% for the quarter ending June 30, from 14.8% during the year-ago period, according to tech market tracker Gartner.
Working in the Evo's favor is the fact that it's really nothing more than a Linux-based computer that relies entirely on off the shelf parts like an overclocked Athlon 64x2 5600 processor and ATI Radeon 3200 graphics.
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Also announced for the US is the U2 laptop (here known as the U2E), a Core Duo ULV-based computer, coupled with a 32GB SSD -- which cuts down on the energy-sucking without sacrificing performance (or so they say).
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In the past we've seen a tongue-based computer interface or two, the BrainPort sight-via-papillae solution, and this week, at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign introduced a sensor about the size of a business card that detects and identifies fourteen common sweeteners -- including Splenda, Sugar in the Raw, and Sweet'n'Low.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
Apple itself launched a pen-based tablet computer, the Newton, in 1993, but it was a flop.
Based on computer modelling, the craft QinetiQ has developed thus far could complete a day-night cycle.
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We are reduced to relying on what amounts to informed scientific guesswork based on computer simulations.
So far these machines have been used mainly to make detailed plastic models based on computer designs.
Uncertainties, however, plague such forecasts, which are based on computer simulations and models.
The current U.S. pandemic control strategy is based on computer simulations that assume a flu virus with an R-naught between 1.6 and 2.4.
Not according to John Legere, Asia Pacific president of U.S.-based Dell Computer, which has introduced its PC-selling websites in 16 countries including China.
"It's one thing to be on a mailing list, " said Muller-Maguhn, who serves as a spokesperson for the Berlin-based Chaos Computer Club (CCC) that created the event.
For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
No statistics-based, computer-generated ranking system, which the Official World Golf Rankings is, will ever satisfy every sports fan's notion of who the best players or teams are at any given moment.
Last quarter, Dell's China sales - which are overwhelmingly to large corporations and organizations rather than to consumers, a market dominated by Beijing-based Legend Computer - were up 240% over the same period last year.
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