Hugh and his fellow competitors epitomize the future of desktop fabrication and manufacturing.
The future of the desktop is on the Web, where there's little (if anything) for you to install to (and slow down) your system.
So no big surprises on the automation front, but at least now you'll be able to use one of those nifty SideShow controls built into your future laptop, desktop or remote instead of having to dedicate an entire PC interface to dimming the lights for those romantic dinner dates you've been having with your Wii.
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Intel--which keeps its own PCs about 15% longer than in the past--hopes a new wave of "multitasking" will chew up future processing power and says desktop video could help.
Intel--which keeps its own PCs about 15% longer than it did in the past--hopes that a new wave of "multitasking" will chew up future processing power and says that desktop video could help.
One important thing for consumers to ask when considering Surface is whether they want to load any of the current Windows desktop apps they own today or if they will want to buy and install new Windows desktop apps in the future.
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Superficially the stories heralded the introduction of Apple's retro-futuristic-looking iMac desktop (see "Back to the future"), but fresh off two back-to-back profitable quarters (the first in three years) the underlying message was clear: Apple is back.
They claim that desktop processors built on Intel's future, 14-nanometer Broadwell architecture will be switching from contacts based on a land grid array (LGA) to a ball grid array (BGA) that could dictate soldering the chips in laptop-style, rather than putting them in an upgrade-friendly socket.
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In the future, corporations won't have private data centers or desktop software.
After these moves and the shutdown of its desktop-printer unit last September, Kodak's future is now pinned on selling printing equipment and services to companies.
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In the future, Facebook should launch new services like Graph Search on mobile first and desktop second, says Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a cloud-based mobile platform for developers.
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When the solution is live in October, Skype users will be able to purchase Skype Credits from desktop PCs and mobile devices, through browser-based purchases and in the future, through in-app functionality.
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People spend more time on mobile devices than they do on desktop or laptop computers, and if any software plans to stay relevant in the future, there must be a mobile component.
While the global desktop market is saturated, growing notebooks demand is anticipated to drive PC shipments in the future.
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