Like the Rosetta Stone's ubiquitously marketed computer-based product, TOTALe Online works by means of virtual immersion: Regardless of skill level, you listen in on dialogues, repeat sentences and answer questions entirely in the language you're studying.
It was hosted on Berner-Lee's NeXt computer -- the product developed at a company founded by Steve Jobs before he returned to Apple.
In the San Francisco metropolitan area, where this shift has been pronounced over the past decade, computer and electronic-product manufacturing accounted for 11% of gross-domestic-product growth in the region from 2005 to 2010, outpacing all other industries.
But Like.com had a patent on product applications of computer vision.
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Megastores are above all a product of the computer age: only with automated supply chains and inventory management can such retailers achieve such efficiencies and agility.
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The possibilities for such technology is pretty much endless, but we'd say "nylon stocking that is also, conveniently, a computer" is the first product category worth felling.
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Enough, that is, for a million companies, each making a million goods, and enough for a central computer to take in the product data and adjust pricing and other information in real time.
The rapid pace of development in the computer industry means that the product tempting you could be halved in price in six months or superseded by a better machine at the same cost.
Dell ( DELL - news - people ) is said to be a computer company, but its true genius has to do with the individuals who oversee its efficient inventory management, which allows it to sell a product (the computer) on the relative cheap.
Backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 means the user can connect the product to any standard computer.
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The teen preference for individualism can also be summed up by today's hottest product-- Apple Computer 's iPod.
Steve was fired from Apple after launching one bad product (the NeXt computer).
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The teen preference for individualism can also be summed up by today's hottest product-- Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod.
However, Apple's Irish subsidiaries date back thirty years, to the time when the Macintosh computer was Apple's banner product, and its profits were a fraction of 1 percent of today's figure.
These take the place of the paper sign in and information cards found next to the gadgets on display, offering customers information and product specs on the computer or phone in question. (Hat tip to 9to5, which first reported these were coming).
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Investment analysts are already penciling in a new tablet computer into the computer and smart phone designer's product lineup.
These geniuses, naturally, will be equipped with computer tablets to aid in easily explaining product features and technologies to customers.
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Sumit Gupta, product lead for high performance computer at Nvidia, recalls the amused interest the company faced at the U.S. Supercomputing conference three years ago.
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Jobs was a workaholic obsessed with every screw inside the computer, how the customers experienced the product packing and every element in the marketing of the product.
Other recommendations from the commissions include more powers to remove legal jargon from the contracts entered by consumers when they purchase computer software, designed to limit the product's use.
The tablet market will likely change the way people use computers, and so major computer companies need to have some competing product or risk missing out on the huge growth in this segment.
The time to get the scoop on Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) next move is not when its charismatic founder is pitching the faithful on the computer and gadget maker's next product.
He spent hundreds of millions more on product development, joint ventures and computer systems.
Customer interaction, payments and often product delivery can exist entirely within computer systems.
Synaptics initially moved toward its first practical product in 1992, when Swiss computer-peripherals maker Logitech commissioned a chip for a touchpad.
He spent hundreds of millions more on product development, joint ventures and computer systems to layer on and cross-sell new services.
Synaptics initially moved toward its first practical product in 1992, when Swiss computer peripherals maker Logitech commissioned a chip for a touchpad.
Additional results from the Georgia Tech computer model, including in-depth associate product savings, will be revealed at Ford's display during the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-12.
Intel is one obvious target although on the day Mr Jackson's findings were published, another American court ruled that the chip maker can cut off product support to Intergraph, a computer maker that had sued Intel over an alleged infringement of its patents.
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