The tablet market will likely change the way people use computers, and so major computer companies need to have some competing product or risk missing out on the huge growth in this segment.
To adapt to Net-inspired changes in the way people use computers and consume software, Microsoft brass last summer announced a wrenching corporate reinvention on a scale few companies have been able to manage successfully before.
Bitcoins are created and awarded when people use powerful computers to solve mathematical puzzles, which become more difficult over time as more people compete to solve them.
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After all, 100 megabytes is a lot of storage in an age when most people still use their computers primarily for word processing and Internet access.
While the first mainframes were utilities for technologists, the Internet quickly became a utility for the masses as people started to use computers to search, watch movies, create Powerpoint presentations and communicate with friends.
On a fundamental level, the iPhone opened up the Internet and computer experiences to people who were reluctant to use computers (like my mum).
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Computers might not be the best place to simulate a live philosophy seminar, but they are terrific places to teach people how to use and program computers.
Some people have even started to use separate computers for some activities.
Started by the West Bank's Birzeit University, the centre teaches people in the camp how to use computers and sets up websites for refugee news, information and history.
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UN's own plans for bridge-building include a corps of volunteers to teach people in developing countries how to use computers, and a health network to provide hospitals and clinics with up-to-date medical information.
Home to two of the most innovative labs and research in the high-tech industry, Intel and McAfee will also jointly explore future product concepts to further strengthen security in the cloud network and myriad of computers and devices people use in their everyday lives.
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It is highly likely that Apple did not want to debut new computers that made the programs people use most look blurry.
San Francisco-based Xoom operates a money-transfer business that lets people living in the U.S. use computers and smartphones to send money to 30 countries.
Their research and design is on game-changing topics from how people in sub-Saharan Africa and India use computers and cell phones, to the use of Twitter and social media during crisis, to how digital gaming contributes to business relationships in China, to how American families control internet use at home.
The president said the plan would encourage private companies to develop lighter wheelchairs, and new technologies which could help people with visual impairments and people who can't use their hands to operate computers.
CTCs are public housing facilities, libraries and community centers nationwide designed to provide myriad services, including work force development and employment information, pre-school and family programs and adult education, all of which use computers and information technology to meet people's needs.
He admitted that the computers were not suitable for people wanting to use traditional software packages such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office.
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And one of the things we're trying to do with the Recovery Act is to help schools get broadband, get computers, but then also train people to use it properly.
Opera Software was founded in 1994, based on the idea that access to the web should be a universal right. 300 million people (and counting) use the Opera web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs and other connected devices.
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It is a very big deal as people use more and more mobile devices to communicate and access remote computers.
Consider the status quo: To operate computers, most people peck away at keyboards and use a mouse to scoot a digital pointer across the screen.
Over the next decade or so, the information-technology revolution is widely seen as being the main driver of growth, and since the rich economies, notably America, have a vast lead in the development and use of computers, telecoms and the Internet, some people worry that this will inevitably cause the gap between the developed and the developing worlds to widen further.
Researchers, led by Dr Richard Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, warn the widespread use of computers in so many aspects of modern life may put many people at risk of developing DVT.
Twelve guides will aid people with both sight and hearing loss with a range of issues, including the use of computers, telephones and public transport.
But the extensive use of jargon, abbreviations and obscure slang can make it hard for computers to figure out what people are saying.
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