It also has a vast consulting force able to drive sales of everything from servers to printers and desktop computers.

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The company said it spotted the "unknown virus" earlier this week and took desktop computers, email and web servers offline as it cleaned up.

BBC: Computer virus hits second energy firm

One of the outstanding differences between the "sobot" and conventional "robot" is its ability to transfer itself into desktop computers, PDAs, servers and robotic avatars and adapt and evolve like a genetic organism.

CNN: 'Sobots': Uncorking the robotic genie in a bottle

The Net has long been a network of networks, linking desktop computers, servers and mainframes.

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Notebook computers are the fastest-growing form factor in computer sales--versus desktop computers and servers--and are also AMD's weakest category.

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Many eyes popped last week when word came that IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) would be presenting a paper on a new 64-bit PowerPC chip that it intends to aim at desktop computers and low-end servers.

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Servers are powerful computers that usually sit in the middle of a network, handling and coordinating data from a number of desktop computers.

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