The job ad acknowledges Valve's debt to the personal computer but said the firm was trying to speed up the pace of innovation by "jumping in" itself.
According to a court document filed by Twin Capital, the hedge fund firm purchased the computer for Simon to use at his home and only he knew the password.
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The challenges on the site are incredibly varied and include everything from a multinational food company looking for a "Reduced Fat Chocolate-Flavored Compound Coating" to an electronics firm trying to design a solar-powered computer.
Analysis of the attack reveals that someone got access to the computer systems of one firm that issue certificates.
Workers at computer services firm Capita have voted to go on strike over job losses and work going to India.
Roger Kay, a computer analyst at market research firm IDC, estimates flat to slightly higher revenue for the total U.S. personal computer market this year.
He does not contest that he sent the letters to three forensic science laboratories, a computer company, an accountancy firm, the DVLA and a residential address, but denies intending to cause injury.
The event has grown so large that the firm moved it to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View Calif.
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Research firm IDC expects notebook computer growth to hit 138.6 million units in 2008, surpassing 4.0% desktop computer growth at 26.0%.
For him, the pocket-sized device is to 3Com what the Java programming language is to Sun, a Silicon Valley computer firm: the crown jewels.
Hakuta's boss, Yasunori Fujikura, and another trucking-firm executive had wanted to create a computer system that would bypass middlemen and link cargo companies with drivers.
In December 2011, HAMMOND conspired to hack into computer systems used by Stratfor, a private firm that provides governments and others with independent geopolitical analysis.
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Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at computer security firm Sophos told CNN it was unlikely the attacker intended to cripple Twitter, or to cause widespread disruption.
Blackstone said it is open to keeping Michael Dell as chief executive of Dell under the private-equity firm's plan to gain control of the computer maker.
How many taxpayers took advantage of free or inexpensive computer applications in order to submit their returns instead of using a small accounting firm?
The activist investor, who owns a substantial stake in the US computer maker, opposes plans by founder Michael Dell to buy out his eponymous firm.
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.
Popular Apple programs iTunes and QuickTime are being used by malware code writers to hack into computer platforms and potentially steal data, Russian-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said Friday.
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And it says BT failed to license a system used to let computer servers prioritise data - an IBM invention now owned by the search firm.
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.
Granick, who was also Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation before joining her new firm, says she has always given advice to people in the computer security field.
Bob O'Donnell, vice president of the firm IDG, said he expects the new tablet or slate computer category to result in 3 million to 4 million device sales this year, an amount he said was on par with e-reader sales for 2009.
The characters, including an engineer at a troubled computer-hardware firm, live in an Americanized work environment, yet certain emotions nearly lost to Americans, such as modesty and shame, still rule their lives.
But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant, a computer-security company, said that in cases handled by his firm where intrusions were traced back to Chinese hackers, 94% of the targeted companies didn't realize they had been breached until someone else told them.
The 250-employee firm uses banks of servers and a staff of linguists and computer scientists for highly customized searches to dig up the evidence to prosecute--or defend--big corporate lawsuits.
It took a prolonged war of words and a nasty public fight at the annual general meeting of Atos Origin, a computer-services firm, for Pardus Capital and a London-based hedge fund, Centaurus Capital, to win board seats at the end of May (Atos's chairman was also ousted).
Wadhwani, born in India 52 years ago and schooled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had founded a software firm (since sold to ABB of Switzerland) and was chief executive of Cimflex Technology (computer-assisted manufacturing) before founding Aspect in Mountain View, California, in 1991.
Meanwhile, a firm like Microsoft, which grew up in the computer industry, can use the same fusion of technology to enter the consumer-electronics market with a PC which looks like a games machine.
For this reason, Mr. Mongeluzo, who started Pro Computer Service after graduating from college in 2000, says he doesn't expect his firm's future premiums to increase as much as they have in the past, an average of roughly 20% a year.
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