The task of complying with the tax code is now easier (thanks to computers) but also more difficult, because of the code's seemingly organic annual growth in length and obscurity.
Thanks to computers, oddly enough, the ability to get on well with other people is going to be even more valuable in future than it has been up to now.
Despite the dip, IDC raised its projection for 2011 media tablet computer sales to 53.5 million units from 50.4 million units, thanks to a pack of new tablet computers due to arrive in the second half of 2011.
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Only recently, however, has the method become practical, thanks to vastly more powerful computers.
The games that are being played by the unscrupulous are becoming more and more complex, thanks to the global marketplace, computers and the internet, accounting tricks and regulatory loopholes.
On Thursday, the SIA reported that global semiconductor sales rose 5.5% in August from the previous year, thanks to higher sales of personal computers and cellphones, but warned of a weak future.
Researchers at IDC have just raised their forecast for the total number of tablet computers shipped this year to 190.0 million from 172.4 million, thanks largely to a surge of smaller, lower-priced tablet computers.
That will be delayed until April thanks to the IRS needing to reprogram its computers.
But electricity use is up 115% since then, thanks to all those plasma screens, iPhones, computers and data centers.
He added that the company was able to spot the botnet thanks to a very specific behaviour of the infected computers.
The new software is powering sales of Apple laptop and desktop computers ahead, thanks in part to software giant Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) troubles with Vista, the latest version of the ubiquitous Windows operating system.
It's something that Reuters pioneered -- in 1964 the company was the first to provide computers to transmit financial data internationally -- but in which it had been lagging behind thanks to the surprise success of Bloomberg's terminals in the late 1990s.
That proved to be a wise move for Lockheed, which became the leading supplier of radars, computers and other items to the Navy thanks largely to the Moorestown facility.
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Shares of Apple have risen nearly 80% over the past year, thanks to strong sales of Apple's notebook and desktop computers and Apple's new iPhone, which went on sale in June.
Thanks to the fragmentation of production, Chinese workers are doing the low-skill parts of producing computers.
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Temperatures in Germany have been in the 80s thanks to a heat wave and the hearing between the two technology giants over design rights to their respective tablet computers had to take a few breaks this afternoon.
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All of the productivity gains and economic growth achieved in the last 150 years, he explained, come thanks to inventions that are behind us: electricity, the internal combustion engine, indoor plumbing and heating, electronics and computers.
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