That would mean cheaper, better computers -- and even tougher competition among the chipmakers.
Users could play many games and also learn the programming language of computers -- BASIC.
The new school features more than 700 computers -- one for every three students.
Apple's PCs and notebook computers--long relegated to a niche status--are tearing off big gobs of the PC market.
It powers TV sets, mobile phones, computers--indeed, any sort of contained electrical device.
Younger people -- especially those young enough to have grown up with home computers -- have adapted very quickly, McNeil said.
Last year at CES, 3-D television and tablet computers -- or at least the promise they represented -- were all the rage.
Healy is alarmed by the encroachment of "screen time" of all kinds--videos, games and computers--into the lives of younger and younger children.
The new computers - perhaps the first to be introduced into a major British newsroom - would look laughable to today's young journalists.
And if you have a home network, any PC in the home--up to a limit of 255 computers--can get access to those files.
GE's Medical Systems unit outfitted the Indiana Heart Hospital with 650 computers--that works out to more than six computers for every single doctor and patient.
The blog BoingBoing posted a photo of a man's elbow that was apparently sliced open by one of the computers -- or a similar model.
In marketing-speak, the cloud is just a fancy term for all the computers -- other than your own -- that are connected to the internet.
It does supply lots of real-time economic data, but only when those numbers are compiled and dispatched directly by computers--the computers that process stock trades, for example.
When a user slaps a note on a Web site, none of the action takes place on the site's computers--making it all the harder to block it.
But it was sales of Apple's mainstays--its iPod digital media players and laptop computers--that helped the company blow past analyst estimates by a full 20 cents a share.
Many of those programs are still being used in some older PC software and large mainframe computers -- used by government agencies, universities, Wall Street and businesses worldwide.
The IRS should be able to find Isaacson's clients in its computers--he says he signed all the returns, complete with his preparer ID, and disclosed the theories behind his claims.
Rouland says at least 400 Linux computers -- with IP addresses indicating they may be located mainly in the U.S., Romania, and Australia -- have already been compromised by Trinity.
Another reason for Hutchison to worry: Chu will soon be expanding its offering of consumer electronics beyond computers - a direct challenge to another Hutchison unit, Fortress, which sells consumer electronics.
On Wednesday, Pioneer also promoted its PAIS technology, which the company said helps a myriad of devices -- from iPods to home stereos, car stereos and computers -- talk to each other.
But for the most part, the ancient tool has been replaced with electronic calculators and computers--even though an experienced abacus user can often compute sums more quickly than your average Joe with a calculator.
Industry observers believe this nesting trend could sustain demand for products -- Blu-ray players, stereos, video games, cheap computers -- that brighten the family room while easing the sting of canceling that Disney World vacation.
Former flight attendant Tiffany Hawk is "stupefied" by the move, "especially since the process that turns checkpoints into maddening logjams -- removing shoes, liquids and computers -- remains unchanged, " she wrote in an opinion column for CNN.
That's when Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) debuted the Airport, the first cheap Wi-Fi base station that gave people--or at least the blessed few who used Macintosh computers--fast, wireless access to the Web.
Former flight attendant Tiffany Hawk is "stupefied" by the TSA's decision to allow knives "especially since the process that turns checkpoints into maddening logjams -- removing shoes, liquids and computers -- remains unchanged, " she wrote in an opinion column for CNN.
It had narrowly avoided bankruptcy, and Steve Jobs' return as CEO a few years earlier was turning the company around, but the market share of its products -- then almost exclusively Mac computers -- was dismal, at about 2% worldwide.
The problem: While Intel makes a mighty fine central processing unit (CPU)--its Centrino 2 and Core 2 products can be found in most of the world's laptop and desktop computers--the company has stumbled repeatedly when it has tried to break out of that market.
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