These drive-by download attacks can infect personal and business computers alike with all types of malware.
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Compaq jumped on the Internet in late 1998 with a line of small-business computers selected to appease resellers, whose focus is big corporations.
The company may be content to program business computers, but Mr. Kempin says ceding innovation to competitors will spell the end for Mr. Ballmer.
But by next quarter, he expects to introduce home products that he calls "Internet appliances" and small-business computers bundled with services delivered over the Internet.
In a separate development, IBM said it has initiated a long-term multibillion-dollar research effort to create business computers capable of doing simple tasks on their own.
It used to be that we were replacing our business computers every two to three years, oftentimes around a release of Windows or just from frustration.
Ensure business and employee computers have antivirus and operating system patches that are up to date.
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Kofi Anan may have heaped praise on the machine as "expression of global solidarity, " but others in the business of making computers have taken a more cynical view.
He saw that the companies that made fourteen-inch drives for mainframe computers had been driven out of business by companies that made eight-inch drives for mini computers, and then the companies that made the eight-inch drives were driven out of business by companies that made 5.25-inch drives for PCs.
First, Romania had a strong tradition of using computers in business.
Imagine if the street vendors no longer rely on their non-smart mobile phones but start using web-enabled tablet computers to conduct business.
It used to be so much easier for IBM : just keep building the biggest honking computers available to business, just keep ramming them into more and more offices.
IBM's computers have authentication technology embedded on a chip installed in all its computers, said Clain Anderson, director of security solutions for personal computers at International Business Machines Corp.
But think back: for the past 30 years, as computers swept through business settings, geeks from the IT department have been telling the rest of us about the paperless office of the future.
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That, however, hardly precludes Intel from getting a big piece of Apple's business, particularly in notebook computers, where it's hard to imagine Apple ever reaching the kinds of economies of scale it will need to keep up.
The Crowns picked a crowded, low-margin business, selling brand-name computers and parts, for their Tempe, Ariz.
The Crowns picked a crowded, low-margin business, selling brand-name computers and parts.
Although Sun's principal business is making high-end computers, its ambitious branding effort is designed to promote and protect its increasingly popular Java programming language.
Toshiba has long sold only notebook computers, chiefly to business users.
Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.
Michael Dell, 47, is betting that his company will be able to evolve into a more diversified seller of technology services, business software and high-end computers without having to pander to the stock market's fixation on whether earnings are growing from one quarter to the next.
Like all Asian countries, mobile technologies have dominated over personal computers in both personal and business life.
This is true of new lines of business: say, building cars or computers.
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The New York Times reported Wednesday that Intel has quietly assembled a new business unit focused on netbooks and tablet computers.
Computers are a low margin business and choosing locations with some of the highest rent per sq. ft. in the nation make the prospect of profitability even less attainable.
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When enough computers are equipped to do business this way, e-speak becomes a dynamic web of interactions: In the trip to Paris a travel agency might be at the center of the transaction.
It had the leading game console at the time, it had a phenomenally successful portable gaming device, it had the most respected TVs in the market, its cameras were doing brisk business and it had a line of computers that were sufficient.
Ian Livingston, BT's chief executive officer, told Marketplace Europe the "consumerization" of business -- the trend for personal consumer devices such as smartphones and tablet computers to be used in the workplace -- was redefining the way we do business.
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