This year, the most chip-hungry sectors - computers and mobile phones - remain in the doldrums.
But people also have shifted their attention to games on Facebook, tablet computers and mobile phones.
The two women have been accused of stealing laptop computers and mobile phones from the embassy.
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According to the industry group, personal computers and mobile phones account for 60.0% of chip demand.
There were bright spots as well, as sales of notebook computers and mobile phones were particularly strong.
Despite the spread of computers and mobile phones, the capacity to process information is becoming more unequal.
It is the only country in the world where sales of computers and mobile phones are still booming.
The brightly lit windows of our computers and mobile phones showed us the whole world and everyone in it.
Much free television can already be watched legally on computers and mobile phones.
Australia's Greenland Minerals and Energy Company, which is prospecting for uranium and rare earths used in computers and mobile phones, will also be watching closely.
Laptop computers and mobile phones were reportedly stolen from the premises.
With the launch of the PS4, Sony is looking to attract people who may have shifted their attention to games on Facebook, tablet computers and mobile phones.
The combination of mobile broadband and cheap netbooks will resolve a long-running argument within the technology industry about the relative merits of computers and mobile phones as tools to promote development.
Beginning early 2012, previous series of BBC shows such as "Torchwood" and "Spooks" will be available for Netflix members to watch instantly in the UK and Ireland streamed over the Internet to connected TVs, tablets, game consoles, computers and mobile phones.
As well as making it possible to scribble virtually anywhere, linking the real and virtual worlds through mobile devices could also change users' perception of their surroundings, says Jason Devitt of Vindigo, a company based in New York that provides location-based services on both handheld computers and mobile phones.
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They do everything from making the chips that go into electronic devices to designing, building and marketing the computers, mobile phones and other gadgets that use them.
That still chiefly means television, but more and more people also follow sport on computers, BlackBerrys and mobile phones.
There are many decisions that individuals could make that would improve the economic status of the U.S. For example, individuals could spend less on cigarettes, gambling, and alcohol and more on computers, mobile phones, and education.
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Ballmer said the convergence of screens on computers, TVs and mobile phones is revolutionizing how people communicate with each other.
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Yet while store executives crowed about the crowds, early data suggested the real growth was happening online, as people using computers, tablets and mobile phones gobbled up Internet specials without the hassle of waiting outside stores.
Section 1502 is based on the recognition that companies from around the world, including in the United States, buy minerals from the DRC and use them to produce high-tech components that go into computers, mobile phones and other devices.
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By focusing on the cloud, HP is linking disparate technologies, from personal computers and printers to servers, and from mobile phones to computer-networking equipment, according to The Associated Press.
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Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 300 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices.
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Skype can be downloaded onto computers, mobile phones and other connected devices for free at www.skype.com.
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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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Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
Dr. Bollen and his colleagues, for example, found that the millions of Twitter messages sent via mobile phones and computers every day captured swings in national mood that presaged changes in the Dow Jones index up to six days in advance with 87.6% accuracy.
Indonesians have leap-frogged a generation of technology, and now download data and use social media largely through smartphones, rather than mobile phones and personal computers.
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