The case, filed in London High Court and seeking penalties and injunctions against Apple Computer, would open the latest chapter in a long and winding road of litigation between the two sides that dates back to Apple Computer's founding.
At first, she had found it necessary to go to the door and open it and stand there, surveying the piles of paper, the moribund computer, the overflowing files, the books lying open or face down, as well as crowded on the shelves.
There was, however, an even bigger conceptual breakthrough: the mobile device as general purpose computer, open to the world of software, powered by the resources of the cloud.
When the Watsons at IBM bet their company on the development of the 360 computer the space was wide open, competition clearly underdeveloped and unable to catch up.
TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.
If ever the need arises for a large keyboard and some earnest typing, they sit down in front of the nearest available computer anywhere in the world, open its web browser and access all their documents online.
From iTunes on your computer, open the Store menu, select "Turn on iTunes Match, " enter your Apple ID and password and click Subscribe.
Additionally, the SMILE Plug Computer features an open platform based on Arch Linux for ARM, the Plugmin administration app and the Stanford SMILE Junction Server.
Ubuntu is based on the Linux operating system and its development and use is governed by an open ethic that emphasises the sharing of core computer code.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
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By the end of last year, Zoom had enough computer power to open its search engine to the masses--and to process credit-card payments.
The computer runs on open-sourced operating system Linux and can be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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Whether the platform is a smart-phone, a tablet computer like the iPad or the open internet, the key to success for most publications will be a dual revenue stream.
But one genome pioneer is taking the opposite approach: imitating the open-source movement of computer science, which argues that technology works best when it is given away for free so that everyone can collaborate on it.
Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.
" The IRS's computer problems, he says, "open the door to more and more fraud.
Insert a floppy disk, then open My Computer, right-click the A: icon, and select Format.
SourceXchange's mission is to help computer hackers who contribute to open-source software, such as the popular operating system Linux, to link up with computer companies.
An actual version of the computer was on display and open for testing at Microsoft's CES booth.
Bioengineers, like computer programmers in the Linux open-source software movement, are encouraged to contribute "bricks" voluntarily, and can order the parts they need over the Internet.
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Jumping between pages as quickly as you can type, this mobile browser "talks" with your desktop's version of Google Chrome, letting you sync-up bookmarks and even view the same tabs you have open on your computer.
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Before every test begins, the proctor asks the test taker to pan the room with their web camera, said Jarrod Morgan, a vice president at Proctor U. During that sweep, proctors see all sorts of things: answers on Post-it Notes taped to the computer screen, another person sitting in the room, a second laptop open to Google.
Normally I have five or six browser windows open on two screens of my computer, plus the phone on the desk.
With a feature-rich processor, the BeagleBone computer platform allows developers to fully utilize the technology within a full-featured, open hardware Linux development kit.
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At a trendy coffee shop in the French Quarter, nearly every table has an open laptop computer on it.
Eagle Computer goes public, and its founder cracks open the champagne, gets pleasantly drunk and takes his Ferrari out for a romp.
It actually comes pre-programmed with a game controller script, so you can plug it into your computer and start playing as soon as you open the box (requires the free Super Tux Cart videogame).
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Harris also helped develop computer trading systems that seem certain to doom the open-outcry system for good, though the exchange is preserving both systems as long as demand is there.
That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.
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