Apple proves the point that a computer company can become a high-mobility company.
They pooh-poohed fears that the computer company had lost a step.
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He asked U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, who is overseeing a trial expected to last several weeks, to find that the computer company had violated anti-trust laws.
Steve Jobs --who was heavily influenced by the counterculture attitudes of the late 1960s and early '70s--has been said to have admitted that the computer company was named Apple in partial tribute to the Beatles.
At the time, Jobs had left Apple and was running a small computer company, NeXT Computer, that targeted the education market.
There was no visible demonstration that we were a computer company.
The Olympics have 12 main sponsors, from Kodak, which backed the first modern games in 1896, and Coca-Cola, part of the show since 1928, to Lenovo, a Chinese computer company that signed up in 2005.
In 2001, Hewlett-Packard made the first strategic mistake, the purchase of Compaq Computer that supposed to provide the company with the scale advantage in the PC market to compete effectively against Dell Computer (NASDAQ:DELL), IBM, and all sorts of emerging Asian competitors.
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That was proof, he told me, that my computer was sending out the error message that his company had received - and which had led him to call in the first place.
Never mind that the company has used some of the funding to hire computer engineers, or that it converted from a traditional nonprofit to a B corporation, a new type of company that is contractually required to be socially and environmentally responsible.
In 1990, he and his wife started a company that built computer systems for companies at much lower wages than similar U.S. outsourcers.
Nowadays, with Apple investing heavily in the high-flying Mac OS, it's strange to think that the company's flagship computer would be vulnerable.
The thing is, given that HP is and was a computer company, this is exactly the area they should have been looking at when doing the due diligence.
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And long after my fellow editors were convinced that Apple was about to regain its leadership of the computer world, I was still arguing that the company was not yet on solid ground.
No, scratch that, the PC company that HP might spin off might revive the TouchPad computer.
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Graham Cluley, a computer security expert from net security company Sophos, told the BBC that there were ways for computer owners to protect their machines from this type of fraud - for instance, by using up-to-date anti-virus software.
Uninspired, Campbell visited Commodore, a company that introduced a personal computer in 1977.
After being sued repeatedly for allegedly forcing employees to work through lunch and bathroom breaks, the company installed computer systems that shut down individual cash registers when workers were scheduled for breaks.
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Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.
He is currently a principal in Renaissance Associates, a private company that investigates corporate fraud and computer crimes.
That is what Hewlett-Packard, a computer company, wants to achieve with its e-speak software, which it intends to ship next year.
His firm, and others like it, are starting to turn out computer models that can estimate for an insurance company the cost of a storm even before it happens.
Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant, a computer-security company, said that in cases handled by his firm where intrusions were traced back to Chinese hackers, 94% of the targeted companies didn't realize they had been breached until someone else told them.
The Justice Department sent a letter Friday to AMI, reassuring the company that federal agents will not be going through business records or computer files and have no intention of compromising the company's journalistic work or sources.
From unlikely beginnings, Jobs co-founded the company that became the vanguard of the computer revolution.
There was one contingent that wanted Apple to be more of a business computer company.
To compete at chess, the company built an extremely fast computer that could calculate 200 million chess moves per second based on a fixed problem.
American William Amelio was hired with much fanfare in late 2005 to take charge of Chinese computer giant Lenovo--and integrate that company's acquisition of ibm's mammoth but moneylosing PC business.
With a multi-touch display - no keyboard or mouse here -- housed in what looks in size and shape like a chic coffee table, the company hope that the table-style computer will change the face of computing at the office and in the home over the next decade.
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