What's more, computing science's reputation as a geeky male subject has been reinforced, with the percentage of male applicants rising over the period from 84% to 87%.
Having seized tablet-computing's crown, Steve Jobs, Apple's determined boss, isn't likely to give it up any time soon.
Corning's darn-near-impenetrable Gorilla glass certainly isn't new -- in fact, we spied it in a few of Motion Computing's tablets just a few months ago -- but it's still not commonplace on mainstream gizmos.
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In November Ovshinsky dropped another doozy: He told an audience in Japan that he has made possible a cognitive computer, one that can mimic the human brain by busting through the limitations of conventional computing's binary system.
If the larger company holds back, however, 3Tera may try integrating Amazon's services against the company's will. 3Tera's Bert Armijo says 3Tera is working on software that would connect Amazon's EC2 computing offering with 3Tera's Applogic services, allowing customers to use both Applogic applications hosted on 3Tera's clients' servers as well as Amazon's processing power.
Samsung continues to manufacture the A6 processor, the iPhone 5's main computing engine, based on Apple's design.
The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing devices.
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Luminaries past and present from across the UK's computing industry had gathered to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cambridge University computer laboratory.
"This is not a revolution, but it is a significant evolution, " commented Prof Alan Woodward, visiting professor at the University of Surrey's computing department.
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Siddique had been fascinated by computers from his early teens, eventually enrolling in a computing technician's course at the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow.
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The aim, says Rodrigo Kede of IBM Brasil, is to manage the conglomerate's computing needs during a period of rapid growth, and to improve efficiency.
Challenges to be overcome include security issues, the complexity of managing multiple distributed systems, and the mistrust that may exist between companies sharing each other's computing resources, Barrett said.
"For all the big words people are still able to have anonymous accounts on Pastebin so they are effectively untraceable, " said Prof Alan Woodward, a visiting professor at the University of Surrey's computing department.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
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.
One of the world's most conspicuously successful centres of enterprise lies in that bit of California known as Silicon Valley: computing is today's knowledge-based industry par excellence (see survey) The new jobs in tomorrow's industries, in manufacturing and services alike, will call for more than button-pressing automatons.
Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.
AMD's server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments.
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DuoSense is a dual mode pen and true multi-touch interface specifically designed for today's advanced computing world.
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The suite AMD set up to woo the press was stocked with gear brought in to show off AMD's visual computing prowess.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft's Internet computing strategy.
"With Bay Trail we will build on the work done with our current SoC development and accelerate very quickly by leveraging Intel's core computing strengths, " Bell said.
"The strategy has been never to lead, but to follow" technologically, said Qian Depei, a Beihang University researcher, who has worked for decades on China's advanced computing programs.
Indeed, both Tom Davis, head of government affairs for consulting firm Deloitte, and Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division were offered the position and turned it down.
"This obviously is something we have been worrying about, " said Huang Ying, IBM China Research Lab associate director who leads one of the company's cloud computing projects in China.
"We're currently unaware of any attacks trying to use the claimed vulnerability or of customer impact, " said Dave Forstrom, the director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, in a statement.
Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: " The Search Industrial Complex").
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people )'s Internet computing strategy.
"If you imagine somebody up, say, a telegraph pole at the very top, needing to rewire something, they don't really want to be fiddling with a laptop, " explains Paul Reed, Motorola's mobile computing product manager.
"We're certainly looking at WAP and find it very interesting, but we don't have any imminent plans" to use the technology, Tammy Medanich, product marketing manager with 3Com's Palm Computing division, said in a recent interview.
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