And three, RIM's fixation on a certain type of computer-processing technology may be the reason its smartphone innovations have slowed to a turtle's pace.
Computer-processing technology had become so widespread and inexpensive that DVD players and mobile phones had as much power as the PCs of just a few years ago.
Moore's Law alone, which decrees that computer-processing power will double every 18 months and has at least another ten years to run, will soon allow computers to do things that are almost unimaginable.
Next is the camera's Multiple Exposure mode where users can combine up to nine individual images into a single composite image, with no need for later computer post-processing.
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Inside a low-rise office building in Monterrey, Mexico, hundreds of workers sit in front of computer screens, processing insurance-claims data all day.
"Benefits to firms will include faster file storage, computer back-up and processing for example, " he said.
Now what was once was a fun computer-science experiment in natural language processing is becoming a real business for IBM and Wellpoint, which is the exclusive reseller of the technology for now.
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The cybercriminals would monitor the withdrawals in real-time from within the credit-card processing firms' computer networks, prosecutors said.
The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.
It is ironic that today's computer industry has its origins in a data-processing project carried out in 1890 that was completed on time and under budget.
Boston's Route 128 was home not just to the minicomputer revolution but to early developments in word processing, spreadsheets, networks and computer-aided design.
If the computer programming is supple enough and the on-board processing is fast enough, engineers can now virtually nullify effects caused by vehicle height, weight, roll centers and center of mass.
The bug revolves around the way that IE manages a computer's memory when processing Cascading Style Sheets - a widely used technology that defines the look and feel of pages on a website.
UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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Your smartphone now harnesses the processing power of a multi-million dollar mainframe computer that not so long ago filled an environmentally-controlled room.
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The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.
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There was a string attached: in exchange for a cash infusion, Hangul was required to kill its word-processing program, long a favorite of the country's computer users.
Founded as a financial computer-services provider in 1988, ACS for the first few years focused on processing bank transactions, but the collapse of the Texas banking industry eliminated many of its customers.
Image-processing software would be able to convert those hand motions into something the computer would understand.
AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.
Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.
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