By 1957 the machine was being outstripped by faster, smaller computers and it was handed over to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College (more recently Wolverhampton University) where it was used to teach programming and began to be called the Witch (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell).
Apple's first two versions of the iPad transformed the market for tablet computers and made it one of the fastest-growing sectors of the computer industry.
Publishers, for example, might claim that Apple dominates the market for consumer tablet computers and that it has allegedly used that commanding position to restrict competition.
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Intel's chips are in the majority of personal computers, and it has been pushing a newer breed of portable PCs it calls Ultrabooks, some of which have touch screens.
What if Apple decides to dump Google search from the literally hundreds of millions of devices and computers it has out there like it just did to Google maps and Youtube?
The company already puts RFID chips in printers and computers it delivers to Wal-Mart Stores and other retailers to help track inventory.
The company already puts RFID chips in printers and computers it delivers to Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) and other retailers to help track inventory.
Before, it was humans doing it and now computers take all the information about a particular company and distill it into a trading decision.
After deciding in the early 1990s to concentrate on laptop and notebook computers, it is now far ahead of rivals like Compaq and IBM with a lock on 20% of the world market.
For the network, computers and software, it has relied on western firms like Netscape, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Its boss calculated that, if his firm hooked up all its power-hungry computers and servers, it would fuse the air-conditioning.
In an interview with CNN.com, Bach talked about tablet computers and his gaming habits and said it's a good thing that digital screens and computers are ending up everywhere, even in peoples' cars.
The company said it spotted the "unknown virus" earlier this week and took desktop computers, email and web servers offline as it cleaned up.
In recent years, Huawei began selling smartphones and tablet computers, bringing it into direct competition with the likes of Apple and Samsung.
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Palm helped create and singlehandedly popularized the market for handheld computers, and Microsoft, as it has many times, was forced to play catch-up.
"Before computers it was the telephone, and before the telephone it was playing with the neighbors, " she says.
Dell says the outcry over its computers and customer service pushed it to regroup and restructure.
For although Sun makes most of its money selling server computers and storage devices, it is not just a hardware-maker.
What you see is a room full of computers, and next to it a classroom stuffed with people being trained to man them.
While I was at Cern it was clear in speaking to those involved with the project that it means much more than refurbishing old computers and installing them with early software: it is about enshrining a powerful idea that they believe is gradually changing the world.
The LaCie 324i has four display and video inputs, making it compatible with most computers and video devices.
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With walls covered in calendars and color charts, and shelves and tables filled with computers, blocks, pegboards and books, it's a place to begin learning literacy, math and writing as well as to master fine motor skills and be social.
Phones and computers were entirely different things and most people thought it was cool that you could actually talk with people wireless.
The CEC recently gave itself permission to pursue new regulations for a wide range of high-tech consumer products and IT equipment, including computers, displays, game consoles, imaging equipment, servers and set-top boxes.
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This was true for TVs, microwaves, personal computers and cell phones, and it was also true for the automobile itself.
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This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.
For one, Google is grouping bids for computers and tablets together, since it has found they are used in similar ways (namely at home).
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Factory orders rose only 0.1% in July, worse than forecasts, held down by big declines in orders for machinery and computers, areas that it was hoped would take over leadership of the economic recovery after the housing industry collapsed again.
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PeoplePC's biggest deals, in which it offered computers and Internet access to employees at both Ford Motor f (nyse: f - news - people) and Delta Airlines dal (nyse: dal - news - people), are loss leaders, but the losses seem to lead only to more losses.
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