The future of computing, perhaps even more than the past, is looking like the full employment act for corporate lawyers.

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And they left another computing Titan looking even more dominant.

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And, when a startup venture is focused on solving social and environmental problems, cloud computing becomes an even more powerful accelerator for how technology can help drive global change in a socially conscious and profitable way.

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They saw one giant name in America's computing history - or at least its mobile division - swallowed up by another, and a firm with an even more prestigious past effectively giving up on personal and mobile computing.

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Sam Palmisano then shifted the company even more to high-end computing by selling the PC business and enlarging its software portfolio.

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Even more impressively, Perlman ran Maya a computing power-hungry program that can create and render 3-D models and animation on the iPad.

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And that is exactly why, even though its original value proposition is largely gone, cloud computing is still much more desirable than building an in-house IT apparatus.

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Otellini described a world in which all the development of the past 30 years was but a prelude to the next decade, which will see even more change, and he positioned the user at the center of the computing experience with a spectrum of devices and cloud services around him or her, all interacting smoothly together.

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The sleek, modern design captures the essence of mobile computing, while details such as rounded edges, engraved logo and silver trim make the design even more eye-catching.

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