Gateway, the low-cost computer maker that competes with Dell, has already said it expected lower than expected sales in the fourth quarter of the year.
Modern computerisation projects, in contrast, tend to have far more in common with Babbage's ill-fated attempt to build a mechanical computer, which cost a fortune and was eventually abandoned.
Mr Colaninno also showed his political skills, calming the passions of both trade unionists and politicians as he sliced up Olivetti, even though it meant the end of Italy's domestic computer industry and cost many jobs.
This approach is said to offer a significant performance boost to a HDD only computer and at a much lower cost for a given storage capacity than a SSD only computer.
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The major obstacles to broadband adoption identified by the FCC were noted as cost, computer illiteracy, and a sheer lack of awareness about the benefits the web offers (outside of cute kitties).
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Now, however, thanks to the dramatic decline in the cost of computer power, wireless devices are far cleverer, meaning that they can use spectrum more efficiently and are more tolerant of interference.
Just in time for the conclusion of the college football regular season, the upcoming playoffs and bowl season, Optimum Online subscribers can watch and follow multiple events simultaneously on WatchESPN.com on their personal computer at no additional cost.
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You can also deduct the cost of your computer and other general office expenses.
He could replace antiquated linotype machines with computer technology, a huge cost saving on productivity.
If they reached a million customers, the cost of their computer servers would exceed twenty thousand dollars per month.
The paper industry argues that recycling paper and managed tree growth make using paper cheaper and easier on the environment than the cost of recycling computer components.
This week, Fujitsu said it would expand a deal with Siemens, a German electronics firm, to share more of the cost burden in its computer business.
Allowing for inflation, this is roughly a third of what it might have cost to build in Babbage's day in contrast to the cost of electronic-computer technology, which halves in price every 18 months.
Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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That was followed by the explosive growth of available mutual funds by which investors could swap an entire portfolio with just one phone call, and later just a click of a computer mouse, with no transaction cost if handled directly with the mutual fund, and only one small commission if handled through a discount broker.
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Today, says deGraf, the cost to do a total computer animation of Max would be about the same as hiring a human and creating the effects around him.
Widespread cost cutting and steady demand for computer chips enabled it to improve its performance, the company said.
Also at CES, Marvell and OLPC showcased the first prototype of the X0 3.0, a low cost, low power rugged tablet computer designed for education in emerging markets.
The hardware progression has been from the mainframe to the personal computer to more powerful clustered servers, with cost and access moving back and forth between large enterprises and corporations to small businesses and individuals.
The entire point of the whole cloud computing enterprise is that you, the person wanting computer services, can get better services at lower cost by using the cloud.
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Rivals including Hewlett-Packard and Apple figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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His firm, and others like it, are starting to turn out computer models that can estimate for an insurance company the cost of a storm even before it happens.
Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered as rivals including Hewlett-Packard figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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As an example of this collaboration, the City of Seattle has proposed implementation of the Great Student Initiative, an effort to form new partnerships with information, communication and technology companies including Microsoft, Comcast, One Economy and lenders to provide low-cost, high-speed Internet access, computer, software and services for low-income students in the Seattle Public Schools.
But most of the personal robots currently on the market in the United States and Japan carry price tags that are well above the cost of a toaster, or even a personal computer.
Anyone who has a complex diary, important to himself and to others round him, would testify that putting it on a computer is one of the simplest, most efficient and most cost-effective changes one can make.
The commercial offshoot of Iamus, US-based Melomics Media, is offering the computer-created compositions at a similar rate to what it would cost to download a track from iTunes, Google Play or some other online store.
Thousands of light bulbs illuminate the gigantic main terminal and unused parking lots around the clock, a massive energy and cost drain that appears to be the result of a computer system that's so sophisticated it's almost impossible to operate.
GammaTech Computer Corporation is a leader in the design, manufacture and sales of cost-effective, high-performance mobile computing solutions throughout North America.
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You remember what it used to cost you for a flat-screen TV, or a laptop computer.
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