This fact alone is emblematic of the tectonic shift taking place in personal computing.
ASUS, a leading innovator in personal computing products, will bundle the revolutionary Leap Motion controller with select new computers.
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Spool forward 23 years and its difficult to imagine computer life without the mouse guiding the majority of computer functions, but that's exactly what's on offer in 2007 -- a landmark year in personal computing.
So, I survived another Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and made it out of Vegas with most of my skin, and with the objectivity engendered by a couple of thousand miles of distance and a weekend, I can now render a verdict: there has been some evolution since last year in personal computing.
With the growth in the personal computing space slowing down, tablets are the new market that offer tremendous growth potential.
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We broke the mold in the era of personal computing and we continue to break the mold in manufacturing systems.
According to the claims, hearing aids worn by at least two users will work in tandem with a personal computing device to identify user identities, establish a communication link and then swap profiles -- not a list of likes and dislikes, but dynamic audio settings.
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In adopting their own personal cloud computing-based applications, employees are now driving their organizations to cloud as well.
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Moorhead goes on to paint a picture where powerful multi-core mobile PCs play a central role in both our personal and professional computing lives.
Personal computing emerged in the 1980s as something Hollywood couldn't ignore, with films like "Tron, " about a hacker who gets trapped in a computer game, and 1983's "WarGames, " about a nerdy high school student who nearly causes a nuclear apocalypse after breaking into a military-operated computer network.
Led by the legendary Steve Jobs, Apple has upended many industries in the last decade, including personal computing, entertainment, wireless telecommunications and retail.
As Apple has made inroads into the PC and laptop markets, and as it has created entirely new markets in mobile and tablets, the future of personal computing was seen by many to be slipping away from Microsoft.
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Apple took a more playful approach to the idea of personal computing, and it paid off in a river of gold.
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In the data center sector, growth is derived from both consumers and corporations who are accepting and integrating more and more new devices and applications into their personal lives and business operations, resulting in ever greater computing needs.
Founded in 1975, it rose swiftly to dominate the world of personal computing with its Windows operating system and Office suite of word-processing and other productivity tools.
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With the rise of tablets, smartphones, social media, apps and personal clouds, we are in the midst of a profound computing shift, perhaps the greatest technology revolution in the enterprise since the invention of the PC.
The DuoSense pen offers the return of the lost art of handwriting and together with the true multi-touch solution opens up a whole new world of personal choice for the user in deciding how to interact with their computing devices.
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HP's hyperactive Thursday, which saw it dump WebOS, buy the UK's Autonomy and announce plans to hive off its personal computing division will have been even less of a concern in Cupertino.
As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.
The 12.5-in ThinkPad Twist gives professionals the technologies they need for both their business and personal computing.
Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets.
Four years later in 1984, when Apple released its Macintosh personal computer, Omidyar started to see that the computing giant and its late founder Steve Jobs were offering something truly revolutionary: user-friendliness.
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"Powered by VMware Horizon Mobile, Telefonica Dual Persona service will enable enterprises to securely customize and manage an employee's corporate mobile workspace in isolation from their personal smartphone environment, " said Brian Byun, vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, Mobile for VMware.
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