Facebook and Twitter with users moving their base of interactions to tablets and mobiles phones from desktop computers and laptops.
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Computers and laptops seemed to be getting hot enough to double as hibachis--and Intel's business was getting cooked by rival Advanced Micro Devices.
The prices of servers, computers and laptops have all dropped dramatically.
If you include tablets and e-readers in the mix, mobile devices have come to rival desktop computers and laptops for their usefulness in life and business.
Mobile phones are evolving into conduits for e-mail and Web data, while handheld computers and laptops are starting to adapt to a new array of wireless technologies.
Their paper editions are in decline in most of the developed world, as readers opt for the web versions on their computers and laptops, or on smart-phones such as the iPhone.
Computers and laptops seemed to be getting hot enough to double as hibachis--and Intel's business was getting cooked by rival Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ).
But nowadays Amstrad dominates the market not just in home computers and laptops but in mobile phones, while Clive Sinclair's latest tablet had geeks queueing outside Spectrum stores in London, New York and Tokyo.
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In a world where mobile networks give us more speed than the average person can feasibly use, not only do iPads and iPhones not require normal wireless connections, but personal computers and laptops could easily be outfitted with 5G receivers instead of normal wireless.
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The update includes the new iMessage service which lets users message each other free of charge, and Twitter integration across a range of apps, according to the The Telegraph. iCloud backs up devices and lends itself to simple sharing of documents and media between compatible Apple devices, including computers and laptops.
Others, however, appear to be viewing video content on tablet computers, laptops, and desktop computers and leaving traditional televisions out of the mix.
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The experience will be available on desktop computers, laptops, and tablets.
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It is, of course, the week of the Consumer Electronics Show, where HP is showing a whole range of new personal computers, laptops, and other gear.
She and her husband started charging up their cell phones, laptops and tablet computers Monday in anticipation of a power outage.
Fi is best suited to laptops: it uses up too much power for use in handheld computers or mobile phones and laptops are hardly ideal things to lug around the streets.
By all accounts he is doing a good job too: slashing operating costs by nearly half, boosting employee morale, and dramatically winnowing Apple's once sprawling product line down to just four computers (professional and consumer versions of laptops and desktops).
Jobs also introduced the latest edition of Apple's iTunes software, which serves as a storefront for Apple's music and video offerings, and a way for users to manage the media kept on their desktop computers, laptops, digital media players and iPhones.
The plan involves linking nearly every gadget in CompUSA, including computers, laptops, monitors and televisions, to the Internet and serving up as much data as possible.
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Two potential exceptions were RPTVs and laptops Apple computers.
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On laptops and computers customers will be able to access more than 30 live channels, including all five Sky Sports channels, Sky Movies, Sky News, Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Arts, MTV, Disney, G.
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Eye-tracking may also have a more substantial presence within select laptops and desktop computers, bringing additional cameras into the picture.
LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of today's electronic devices, including smartphones, TV screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet computers.
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Apple is positioned to capture a huge share of the growth of mobile and tablet computers in the next decade and to continue to gain share in laptops and desktops.
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Sanyo and IBM face strong competition on fuel cells because many firms are working on ways to shrink the systems to fit laptops and even handheld computers.
Laptops and WiFi transformed computers into traveling companions.
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Older middleware (the point between big computers and applications) is increasingly part of the cloud infrastructure, and end points like phones and laptops now choose, manage and load applications, with or without approval from corporate IT departments.
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The fact that many of these work computers could be laptops taken home in the evening and during the weekend could make the problem of spotting smut much more difficult.
"The Inspiron laptops are the perfect investment for our tech savvy moms, with 73 percent purchasing computers in the last year and 65 percent planning to buy laptops next year, " said Tina Wells, CEO of youth marketing agency, Buzz Marketing Group.
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Because PCs and laptops are shielded by their case and so are aircraft computers and wiring.
But, laptops now outsell desktops, and the market for e-readers and tablet computers is surging, too.
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