He set about creating a single connection for computers across the entire industry.
When Sony insisted that its single-sided disc was superior for personal computers, Matsushita came up with a single-sided, dual-layered disc that the Toshiba consortium immediately adopted for computer use. (Matsushita had been working on its own DVD format before joining forces with Toshiba.) At the Berlin Electronics Show last month, executives from Sony and Philips confirmed that they had resumed talks aborted earlier with the Toshiba alliance.
Boeing designed the 777 and 787 on computers BEFORE a single piece of metal was bent.
GE's Medical Systems unit outfitted the Indiana Heart Hospital with 650 computers--that works out to more than six computers for every single doctor and patient.
That's because fewer attacks have been designed to infiltrate Mac computers, and adding more Macs to the military's computer mix makes it tougher to destabilize a group of military computers with a single attack, Wallington says.
Thirty years ago, as I started my so-called career, not a single person told me that computers and technology would get so cheap that they would practically end up being given away in boxes of Cheerios.
Xfinity Signature Support offers customers a single source for troubleshooting and support for their computers, home networks and many other devices.
Nereus, on the other hand, uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, similar to those used in laptop computers, for power and a single hairs-width fibre optic cables - borrowed from Torpedoes - for control and telemetry.
Bittorrent -- Bram Cohen debuted Bittorrent, a method of downloading files that pieced them together from many users' computers instead of pulling them from a single source, in 2002.
After all, a single human brain has more switches than all of the computers and routers and internet connections on our planet.
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As well as the whole organ modelling under way, other groups are focusing on single cells and trying to mimic their myriad processes using computers.
In five years, Dutra says, more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers' square footage and data consumption by around 50%.
Goldman Sachs has 18, 000 computers churning out reports 24 hours a day on every single product traded.
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Something that is beyond the reach of current computers would be to look at folding trajectories for a single protein.
The original PowerBook laptop set the bar for portable, ergonomic laptops, and in 1998 the transparent, bulbous iMac almost single-handedly moved the world away from dull "beige box" computers.
Several versions instructed infected computers across myriad time zones to download a Trojan at the same single, synchronized moment.
In the case of EZ Energy, regulators stormed its offices Sept. 20, seizing computers and files after its stock shot up 150% in a single session.
The 1, 500 vendors of security products and thousands of security service providers have had a single minded focus on defending against bad actors ever since the invention of networked computers.
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Existing telephone bandwidth was perfectly adequate for voice communications, but became suddenly inadequate when the Internet enabled the global abundance of computers, generating data at megabits a second, to come together into a single, gigantic network.
Featuring a simple, single cord set-up, the new space-saving Inspiron all-in-one computers make life easy and deliver powerful entertainment for the whole family.
The Internet, after all, is a vast Big Data environment, in which millions of servers and billions of personal computers and smart devices are continuously and perpetually gathering great caches of data on every single one of its users.
Scientists can make quantum computers from light particles known as photons, but they can also use an array of single atoms or even very small electrical circuits.
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With a library of over 17 million songs, spanning all possible genres, a single subscription account with Napster allows users to enjoy their favourite songs on all relevant devices, including smartphones, computers and now their LG 2012 Smart TVs this party season.
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