Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software.
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Vista is more than an operating system that will eventually live on nine out of ten personal computers in the world.
Perhaps most importantly, we make the most energy-efficient computers in the world and our entire product line exceeds the stringent ENERGY STAR 5.2 government standard.
The result: a virtual supercomputer capable of crunching 6 trillion floating point operations per second, or 6 teraflops, equivalent to one of the ten most powerful computers in the world.
In a preview of its presentation, the team acknowledges Apple's "plethora of defense mechanisms in iOS." Historically, Mac users have been able to boast of being largely malware free, in part because spammers, scammers and hackers preferred to target the larger number of Windows computers in the world.
He had resuscitated the Macintosh PC line but Apple products still represented a very small percentage of the total desktop computers purchased in the world.
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The little computers in our hands that now give us access to all the world's information via the Web will become little computers in our brains giving us access to all the world's information.
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Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.
Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.
How have tiny computers and the Internet grown to be the driving force in the world economy by century's end?
The hardware is based on the kind of x86 processors found in most of the world's computers.
The brightly lit windows of our computers and mobile phones showed us the whole world and everyone in it.
Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
The newspaper said that for much of last October, the State Department sent couriers around the world with sensitive information on paper and limited access to the computers in question.
It is the only country in the world where sales of computers and mobile phones are still booming.
Last time I checked, even cutting and pasting in the grown up world used computers, not glue and paper.
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And Oracle's systems have been consolidated, with 100 or so powerful central computers handling the work of thousands of servers dotted around the world, with resulting gains in business intelligence and control.
Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.
"Microsoft seems to envision a world in which one giant company not only controls the systems that drive most computers around the world but also the security that protects those computers from viruses and other online threats, " the advert said.
Bringing to life the hotel's namesake "M" for mobile, as in "mobile citizen of the world, " you're greeted by self check-in computers.
And if the plans of Apple's rivals in the world of Windows-based computers are any indicator, Apple should by all rights be ready to make another leap into entertainment-oriented hardware.
Question: Why has the quantum realm of computers, the Internet and biotechnology evolved so fast during the last 30 years, while progress in the big physical world of farms, buildings, ships, cars, trucks and airplanes has slowed compared with that made in the first half of the 20th century?
Indians, like so many in the developing world, choose cell phones over computers.
In late 2010 the company destroyed computers used by News of the World journalists, some of whom allegedly had links to phone hacking, the filings say.
After Japan and America, China is the world's biggest market for computers, in large part because parents are anxious to give their children every advantage they can.
Last month, Japan's Sony, probably the best- known consumer electronics company in the world, announced that it would soon manufacture computers.
Jaron Lanier has been known for decades as one of the pioneers of virtual reality, and it's very hard to argue his importance in much of the early development of computers, interfaces, and the World Wide Web.
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.
In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
Companies like Amazon and Google maintain huge networks of computers that are stored, row after row, in secret warehouses all over the world.
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