It has sued dozens of companies, claiming to have patented the very idea of selling computer software and other electronic goods over a computer network.
The fact that the first electronic programmable computer had been built in Britain was hushed up.
Like the first-ever sales brochure for an electronic digital computer, put out in 1947.
What was once chemical and mechanical is now electronic and computer-rendered: a series of JPEGs being riffled through a drive.
World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.
Richardson was ultimately vindicated with the advent of the electronic computer, which speeded up calculations and made numerical modelling of the atmosphere possible.
Allowing for inflation, this is roughly a third of what it might have cost to build in Babbage's day in contrast to the cost of electronic-computer technology, which halves in price every 18 months.
Transmeta's low-power chips are billed as a natural fit for wireless Internet appliances-- Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people), for instance, is reportedly working with Transmeta to develop a new electronic tablet computer.
Then the big boys with global licences arrive: Lego to make construction kits (build your own Hogwarts castle), Mattel to make Harry Potter toys, and Electronic Arts computer games including, finally, a chance to play the obscure game of Quidditch (a bit like an aerial version of polo, but with the contestants flying on broomsticks).
"The incidence and complexity of computer crime continues to increase rapidly as greater numbers of people develop proficiency in manipulating electronic data and navigating computer networks, and as worldwide access to the Internet continues to expand, " according to the budget document.
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First switched on in 1943, Colossus is now acknowledged as being the world's first electronic, digital computer.
Mabuchi Motor has half the world market for tiny electric motors used in electronic gadgets and computer drives.
Robert Metcalfe, who three decades ago invented Ethernet, the first great electronic protocol for computer networks, foresees a "gigalapse"--a blackout spanning one billion person-hours.
But tiny electronic gadgets like Apple Computer 's iPod Nano have paved the way to a smaller, sleeker aesthetic.
Symantec's Hacker Protection utility, like Shields Up, scans your PC for open ports--electronic gateways into a computer--that hackers can exploit to access a system and files.
Morean who built Jabil Circuit into one of the primary providers of electronic circuitry to the computer industry titans like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and other.
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But tiny electronic gadgets like Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod Nano have paved the way to a smaller, sleeker aesthetic.
But according to the new U.S. account, a serviceman talking to the border-control center, attempting to make the coordinates more specific for the Pakistanis by pairing them with a map of the political border, applied an incorrect electronic overlay on his computer.
By comparison, it takes roughly 1 million atoms to store a bit of data on a modern computer or electronic device.
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Manufacturing industries reporting contraction in July included manufacturers of wood and paper products, computer and electronic products, textile mills, chemical products, transportation equipment and machinery.
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In the San Francisco metropolitan area, where this shift has been pronounced over the past decade, computer and electronic-product manufacturing accounted for 11% of gross-domestic-product growth in the region from 2005 to 2010, outpacing all other industries.
Unlike other aircraft where the pilot's controls are manually attached to the flaps and rudders, Airbus 330 airliners are equipped with a "fly by wire" system that sends electronic signals from an onboard computer to move key control surfaces.
Apple never fared well by partnering with computer and consumer electronic superstores.
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Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act generally prohibits unauthorized access to computers.
It would also go to that person's electronic medical folder, where the computer works out what sort of drugs to subscribe based on medical history, other medications taken and so on.
Electronic trading and the proliferation of computer-based trade execution programs has given birth to these companies and so-called dark pools, which help brokers or asset management firms move huge blocks of shares at once without tipping off the markets.
Since this elaborate electronic hoax is an embarrassment to the university at a level, will athletic departments create red flag words and phrases that alert the school of illicit conversations and then monitor player electronic communications like cell phone and computer data?
At the same time, it made an emergency installation of computer filters to screen electronic returns.
This is several hundred pages of electronic paper bound together, with a computer concealed in the spine.
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