Tablets, big and small, are crowding out the PC, with sales of personal computers down 8% on a year ago.
Some of the world's biggest companies suffered huge falls this week, with Dell Computers down 28% for the week, leading computer chip maker Intel down 20%, and leading software makers Sun Microsystems and Oracle all dropping by more than 15% - losing billions of dollars in value.
The computers shut down automatically on midnight New Year's Eve, causing overheating and damage.
The computers shut down and officers had to work with old-fashioned pen and paper.
Broadcasters KBS and MBC said their computers went down at 2 p.m.
But he said that providing technical support when computers break down was going to be an important issue for schools, which had yet to be resolved.
Hackers distributed malware that caused the target computers to shut down, routing the attack through computers in other countries to conceal their identity, the investigators said.
The agents seized computers and shut down e-mail service, as first reported by NPR News.
More youngsters than ever before have internet access and the ratio of pupils to computers is coming down in both primary and secondary schools.
Employees of banks could shut down computers that make quick arbitrage trades across markets, using denial-of-service attacks to overwhelm servers and potentially cause millions in losses.
Three companies have entered the fray: a Web tablet is being sold by Seattle-based Epods , and stripped-down computers are being marketed by Virgin Megastores and Austin, Tex.
The Y2K bug could cause all sorts of mischief, including shutting down some computers entirely.
But they provide employees with locked-down desktop computers, limit the use of employee-owned technology, and often ban the use of social media applications outright.
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Symantec estimates that the number of computers still infected is down to about 270, 000, slightly less than half of the number that was reported a week ago.
That "unpaid time" is the minutes each day employees spend booting up and shutting down their computers (also their time-clocks), which they claim adds up to an astounding 15-30 per day.
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Located in the bustling business district of Maslak, the museum only opens to the public when the staff have shut down their computers and tided their desks and papers away for the night after 5pm.
That incident took down thousands of computers at three major broadcasters and three banks for several days, though without causing major disruptions to services.
In December, Judge Lamberth ordered the Interior Department to shut down all its computers for ten weeks because trust-fund records were vulnerable to hackers.
After the initial rush tied up the site, it functioned normally overnight but became clogged again early today as Americans woke up and sat down at their computers, Cauz said.
They work on their old, beaten down, battered computers, and they sneak into Internet cafes at night and download their material to the Internet so that people can see what's going on.
Microsoft's hardware partners in the venture-- Philips Electronics ( PHG) , Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) and Mitsubishi--are working on new WebTV units that run Windows CE and, like palmtop computers, can run stripped down versions of Microsoft Excel and Word.
Sales of the US firm's notebook computers and other mobile devices were down by 10% over the three months to 4 May, compared with the same period the previous year.
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).
Dewey needs computers and access to offices to wind down, the person said.
At 2:00 pm the computers struck again, taking the Dow down another hundred points and once again, in short order.
Police seized computers in May 2006, temporarily shutting down the website.
Microprocessor-based computers grew up into teenage thugs and gunned down the likes of Apollo Computer, Wang and Digital Equipment.
Some PoE equipment uses spare wires in cables that link computers back to network hubs and pump power down these.
Constructed around a fable involving an alien spaceship which hailed a group of hackers and touched down for repairs to their damaged computers, the camp featured a sculpted spaceship and a "landing area" illuminated by ghostly neon pillars.
Using the era's best computers, Milken calculated that he could dive down to the swamp's bottom and rescue the credit unworthy ... if he could pool enough of the poor suckers into one high-yield bond and price it appropriately for the risk.
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