America's ENIAC computer calculated artillery trajectories, while Britain's Colossus computer decoded the Nazi's encrypted messages.
Wal-Mart's edge and GE's edge and Apple Computer's edge is in organization and knowledge.
This software colossus's domination of the personal computer's operating-system market is complete.
Other people are praying you'll deliver Microsoft 's Xbox 360, Apple Computer 's iPod nano, or a doll and outfit from the American Girl store.
Westin's GadgetTrak gets creative when locating Mac laptops: The company's MacTrak program uses the computer's built-in camera to secretly snap pictures of the thief every 30 minutes.
But when Google began allowing video producers to charge money for footage, the playing field narrowed--right now, it's basically competing with Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes store.
The teen preference for individualism can also be summed up by today's hottest product-- Apple Computer 's iPod.
The teen preference for individualism can also be summed up by today's hottest product-- Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod.
And any new corporate enterprise software like the kind sold by Oracle and SAP will only be successful if it is designed to be as easy to use as Intuit?s Quickbooks, Google or Apple Computer 's iTunes.
The software isn't bad--in fact, you could argue it's the hot-selling Macintosh computer's secret weapon--but no one was gasping in awe as Schiller showed off the ability to add a stone texture to bar charts in Numbers, Apple's spreadsheet software.
The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
To test the system's performance at the configuration stage, the K computer's processing speed was measured by the LINPACK benchmark program, placing it on the 37th TOP500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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"There's no computer that's going to spit out a terrorist name, " he said, arguing that the most effective counterterrorism tool is citizens coming forward to police with concerns about individuals.
Cornell's Creative Machines Lab posted a video this week of a computer's inner monologue, and it's making the rounds on the Internet not because the machine is having profound thoughts about world domination or the future of technology -- but because the discussion it has with itself is totally ridiculous.
From the computer's point of view, the smartest human will be the last one standing after the computer has surpassed all the others.
That potentially shifts the convenience trade-off for MySpace customers in Amazon's favor, because they would be able to buy a song and get it into their computer's music manager, even iTunes, with one click using Amazon's software.
The computer's name is generally believed to be a play on "pixel, " the smallest element of computer graphics.
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The military charge sheet against al Halabi lists more than 30 violations, which include connecting his personal laptop computer to the military's computer system to download classified documents.
This enhanced connectivity boosts the computer's potential as a server in a big way.
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Merging magnets with semiconductors would allow a chip to combine a computer's memory and logic functions.
Intel has also started mass producing motherboards, which contain the computer's microprocessor and major circuitry.
Yet looking at those numbers, Blinder can't find the computer's and Internet's contributions to productivity.
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In addition, the viruses were automatically sent to everyone on the computer's address book.
Clickfree devices are designed to automatically start, search, organize and backup your computer's digital files.
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The computer's timing and technique are flawless, and it never plays a false note.
"Putting the most important words first increases the computer's chances of a 'hit', " she says.
Apple Computer's cash-rich stock may be one of the best buys of the season.
The result is a representation of the hemisphere, and anything in it, in the computer's memory.
The government also charged that Microsoft bullied computer makers into ceding control of the computer's desktop.
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