Mobile devices and cloud computing also are being looked for improving health care.
Conventional search, which Google dominates, is under pressure from social networking, hand-held devices and cloud computing areas Google has to pursue aggressively or risk becoming obsolete.
Users are increasingly talking less on these devices and using them more and more as computing devices.
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The computer industry is undergoing huge changes and soon a significant amount of computing may happen on devices that we do not traditionally think of as computers, computing appliances and other devices with no screens or keyboards that are controlled using voice commands.
In a sense it has industrialized innovation, which means it can comfortably range across white goods, TVs, autos, mobile and computing devices.
Tablets will also rekindle battles that have been hard fought by the vendors of all of the various types of wireless and computing devices.
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Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
Cell phones that take pictures and crude video are no longer shocking, nor are handheld e-mail and computing devices like the BlackBerry from Research in Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ).
Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.
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Google also works in a lot of adjacencies, going from search and advertising to enterprise apps, to mobile computing, to devices and soon to deliveries.
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People of all ages and backgrounds are using sophisticated computing devices that provide easy access to fun and entertainment.
Larry Weber (Chairman of W2 Group , author of Everywhere): The cost of computing and devices has come down so much.
Gigabyte's no stranger in the field of dockable computing devices, and its M2432 laptop shown off at Computex is yet another example proving just this.
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It provides a great illustration into why Jobs is effective as a conceiver of computing devices, and the ways in which tech writers sometimes get netted in arcana.
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DuoSense offers greater mobility and usability in the next generation of computing devices, enabling new market opportunities for OEMs and ODMs to introduce new computer products and for ISVs to develop innovative software applications that offer a more intuitive and interactive experience.
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Cloud computing, connected devices and multi-platform content delivery are central elements that reinforce where consumer electronics is heading.
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Mobile computing devices like tablets and netbooks have boosted demand for mobile broadband, supported by vast range of mobile plans as well as improving network speeds.
The longer explanation is that both companies see the markets for their processors going where Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs is busy building an empire: mobile devices that combine computing, connectivity and multimedia content.
The longer explanation is that both companies see the markets for their processors going where Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs is busy building an empire: mobile devices that combine computing, connectivity and multimedia content.
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.
Sun will contribute Java and a related technology called Jini that allows mobile computing devices to set up communications channels with other networked appliances and servers.
As smartphones and tablets have become our primary compute devices, mobile performance and capabilities have evolved to drive the computing landscape.
"With the proliferation of mobile devices like the iPad and iPhone, more and more consumers are using them as mainstream, computing devices, " said J.
From augmented reality to constant texting to ubiquitous computing and smart-devices we live in a culture already re-made.
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And with all the computing devices that store this information, banks have to protect it from those who aspire to steal it.
Dell was late to adopt the souped-up low-cost chips of Advanced Micro Devices , missed out on mobile computing and failed to put up any new products or applications with pizzazz.
SSDs are also becoming more competitive as mobile computing devices such as netbooks and Ultrabooks are transitioning to smaller and thinner form factors, which can be served only by the SSD market.
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