Akamai's global network now delivers 300 billion bits a second to computers around the world.
Despite the dip, IDC raised its projection for 2011 media tablet computer sales to 53.5 million units from 50.4 million units, thanks to a pack of new tablet computers due to arrive in the second half of 2011.
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Existing telephone bandwidth was perfectly adequate for voice communications, but became suddenly inadequate when the Internet enabled the global abundance of computers, generating data at megabits a second, to come together into a single, gigantic network.
Meanwhile, second-quarter sales of Apple computers rose 26.2% over the year-ago period to grab fourth place in the U.S. market, just behind Gateway.
In theory, to unscramble the signal completely you need two things: good computers and, not so easy, a second infinitely large surface, this time covered with radio telescopes.
Meanwhile, second-quarter sales of Apple computers rose 26.2% over the year-ago period to grab fourth place in the U.S. market, just behind Gateway (nyse: GTW - news - people ).
Second, and just as important, computers should not require the humans using them to become more robotic.
In addition, many of the libraries participating in the program are offering English-as-a-Second Language classes using BTOP-funded computers.
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And second, gathering the data for the computers to chew on, and performing subsequent diagnoses, will require lots of pricey (and currently non-reusable) biochips.
During the second quarter 13.6 million tablet computers were sold almost all of them iPads while only 7.3 million netbooks were shipped according to market tracker ABI Research.
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Those computers can do 1, 000 trillion calculations per second.
On July 31st officials and police seized the computers of Vanguardia, a weekly magazine, for the second time.
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Most computers still hook into the Net at 56 kilobits a second.
Once completed, the system will be able to perform 10 quadrillion operations per second, making it one of the fastest computers on the planet.
Both estimate that shipments of traditional computers dropped by a tenth of a point in the second quarter of 2012 -- not a good sign when Intel's Ivy Bridge processors and a wave of Ultrabooks were supposed to usher in a PC renaissance.
Behind security and a roaring air conditioner, 150 computer network switches go through their mock paces with thousands of computers: Each switch moves 2.5 trillion bits a second.
Smarr is forging fiber links among computers at Urbana-Champaign, San Diego, CalTech and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to form a "TeraGrid, " capable of performing 13.5 trillion operations per second, as powerful as 13, 000 desktop computers.
Second, users can access the network only from designated computers.
And of course computers are extremely fast, so they can perform more calculations in a second than you could in a lifetime using pencil and paper.
They also include Apple's new Firewire 800 technology, which allows a connection speed of up 800 megabits per second to peripherals like hard drives, video cameras and other computers.
More than 5, 000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 Gigabytes per second (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 20 MB).
More than 5, 000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 gigabits per second (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 30 megabits per second).
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Second, the terrorist networks and the states that support them rely heavily on computers for communication.
Present export control regulations prohibit the transfer of computers to the Soviet bloc which can process more than 6.5 million instructions per second (mips).
But anticipation and second-guessing is not enough to base the reprogramming necessary to reset the computers that receive and process millions of tax returns annually.
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.
Bird, 55, who is project leader for the computing grid, says the detectors can put out more data than his computers can handle, enough to fill the biggest computer disk drive in a fraction of a second.
Iomega offers USB 3.0 adapter cards (sold separately) to insert into USB 2.0 laptop and desktop computers so users can experience native USB 3.0 transfer speeds of up to 5 gigabits per second.
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To protect the company from the danger that cheap new computers will squeeze the margin on refurbished ones, Mr McKie is developing direct sales of more powerful second-hand machines to non-profit bodies, such as charities and schools, and to individuals.
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).
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