These are big bets, but the Internet's unique strength lies in letting users personalize their news, communication and entertainment online, in Web logs and instant messages, file sharing, search queries and personal software.
They can also invest in other tools like AirDefense Personal, software which sits on a laptop computer and helps protect data when a worker is using his computer wirelessly while traveling.
Gates, whose company now produces hardware like the Xbox as well as much software, held out for a future where, as in personal computers, software can be decoupled from the machine.
And while personal information is one casualty from malicious software, personal harm could occur with new programs being developed.
The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
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HP's business spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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Microsoft's hold on the personal-computer software market may not be at stake with its launch of Windows XP, but that does not mean there are not concerns.
HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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The company delivers branded personal navigation devices and software for smartphones and the automotive industry.
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Harris claims that MyVest software allows Personal Capital to efficiently create Unified Managed Household Accounts for clients.
And only in personal computing could a software company be hauled into Federal Court by the U.S. government and treated like a threat to civilization itself.
The American boom in venture capital that began in the 1980s has both incubated and accelerated the commercial development of countless quantum industries: personal computers, Web software and social networks, to name three.
A.D. cop Lorna Cole (Rene Russo), he notices that her personal computer contains Three Stooges software.
As well as owning Hotmail, earlier this year it purchased Jump, which writes software for online personal calendars.
Soloway is accused of using "botnets"--groups of millions of personal computers hijacked with hidden software--to send his mass e-mails.
Criminal software can infiltrate personal computers and company networks to steal sensitive data.
Siciliano also recommends installing antivirus software on your personal devices, especially Android phones and tablets, to better protect any sensitive information saved on there.
Russian hackers, meanwhile, took to the Net, launching waves of distributed denial-of-service attacks against the country's government, banking and media Web sites, using thousands of personal computers hijacked with hidden software to overload the servers.
And while much about the product is unknown pricing and availability remain undisclosed one thing is clear: suddenly Microsoft is competing with the companies who pay it to put its Windows software on their personal computers.
Features will continually emerge building on sensing, location and personal-experience driven technologies and software techniques.
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Apple is promising to reveal new software for the Macintosh personal computer, as well as its line of portable devices.
This relies not on software to determine these personal needs but on ourselves, and on what our peers know about us.
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The emergence of the personal cloud service as a third software platform for ISVs to code to, in addition to PCs and mobile devices, for creating the total end user experience.
To make the product more appealing to them, O'Reilly will soon launch cheap software to connect home personal computers to the web through the Internet, thus building up the advertising base.
Long focused in personal computers on supplying operating system software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.
But last May, when Chinese hackers infected more than 500, 000 Web sites with malicious software designed to steal personal information, visitors to those sites received something more disturbing: an invisible password-stealing program on their machines, and an eerie silence from the owners of the sites they'd visited.
It also lends anonymity to hackers using "botnets" herds of personal computers turned into zombies by malicious software.
Also banned is the use of geolocation tracking without consumer consent and notice, and the use of fake software registration screens to collect personal information from consumers.
The pair checked NASD regulations and discovered that there were no rules preventing this, so they created software and a network of personal computers that would simulate a giant electronic limit order book.
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