At Apple's annual Macworld event on January 10th, Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive, unveiled what many fans had been expecting: the first Macintosh computers based on chips made by Intel, which also power the vast majority of personal computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Existing DNA sequencers, he reasoned, used clunky technology akin to computers based on vacuum tubes.
The PC vendor offers computers based on both Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and AMD chips in these stores.
As well as making it possible to scribble virtually anywhere, linking the real and virtual worlds through mobile devices could also change users' perception of their surroundings, says Jason Devitt of Vindigo, a company based in New York that provides location-based services on both handheld computers and mobile phones.
Now it's become an obsession of the financial industry, to serve the needs of high-speed automated trading, where computers arbitrage based on knowing the market news an extra millisecond in advance.
Companies also exhibited myriad non-phone devices based on Android, such as tablet computers.
It has a thousand engineers overhauling routers to better discriminate between "good" behavior and "bad" behavior based on constantly changing reputation rankings of computers on the Web, though others say making this work will be all but impossible.
However, Microsoft acknowledged that group calls using more than two computers did pass through its servers which were used to "aggregate the media streams", and that text-based messages were also stored on its computers for up to 30 days in order to make sure they were synchronised across users' various devices.
Intel (15, INTC) has all but dispatched Advanced Micro Devices as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD - news - people ) as a serious competitor in computers, and now with its Atom line of tiny, low-power-consumption chips based on the x86 architecture, is moving into netbook computers, mobile Internet devices and a wide range of other consumer gadgets.
The Mac beta version of Guild Wars 2 is still being optimised and, unlike other betas, is connected to the live servers allowing everyone to play together on both Mac and Windows based computers.
Audiogalaxy, like Napster and other net-based systems, lets members share the music on their computers with other users.
In January of 2011, however, Microsoft announced last year that it is working with Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments to put a version of its Windows operating system on computers powered by the ARM-based processors now used in mobile phones and tables.
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M-GO supports multiple digital lockers including UltraViolet, a digital rights authentication and home entertainment industry standard that lets consumers safely and securely download and stream their purchased movies and TV shows via a cloud-based entertainment collection for viewing on TV screens, personal computers, tablets and mobile phones.
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The functions Google showed are all, of course, based on the Internet, and largely dependent on the millions of computers inside the "cloud" of Google's data centers.
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Yesterday, Senate investigators released a study describing how the maker of the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers used subsidiaries based in Ireland to avoid income taxes on a big chunk of its global profits.
"Skype is a nightmare for law-enforcement agencies" because of its encryption, says David Vincenzetti, chief executive of Milan-based HackingTeam, which sells a program called Remote Control System that works on computers, smartphones and Blackberries.
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The hardware is based on the kind of x86 processors found in most of the world's computers.
Computers use the laws of physics and mathematics to make predictions based on simulations of the atmosphere that are represented on a grid.
Based on this information, the agents searched Cotterman's car and found two laptop computers and three digital cameras.
This will depend on such technologies as space-based surveillance, direct broadcasting, high-speed computers and, above all, the ability to integrate complex information systems.
Readers spend far more time with news apps on the smartphone and tablet, visit more pages at a time, and return more frequently than they do on conventional computers, according to data from Localytics, a client-based mobile analytics firm.
The game, which is available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles as well as Windows-based computers, launched two weeks before the SyFy series premier to give fans of the "Defiance" universe a taste of what was to come in the show.
Cloud computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged years ago before we could afford our own computers.
Although this is more cost effective for its customers, cloud-based Office software will cost Microsoft more when compared to supplying software that is installed on the computers and servers of customers.
The Swansea-based DVLA said it blocked social media sites, and no staff could access social media on its computers.
By renting out cloud-based computers by the hour, companies could run any OS, software or programming language on a powerful virtual machine.
Haier in white goods, Legend in computers and Konka in television sets are all examples of Chinese firms with strategies based on their own brands or other intellectual property.
More troublingly for Apple, the attack also highlights a growing number of attacks on Mac computers, which are widely thought of as safer from software viruses than Windows-based PCs.
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