Microprocessor-based computers grew up into teenage thugs and gunned down the likes of Apollo Computer, Wang and Digital Equipment.
The two companies are pushing for a new class of machines that combine the power of a personal computer and the portability of a personal digital assistant.
So Fastcase and others are paying Indian data-entry firms 40 to 60 cents per 1, 000 characters to "triple-key" the books into digital form, with three typists entering the text and a computer picking the version at least two agree upon.
Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
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And minicomputer vendors like Digital in turn dismissed the personal computer revolution spearheaded by Dell, Compaq and Hewlett Packard.
Thus the cataract operations that will allow the recipients to return to work, and the digital education that will create a generation of computer-savvy Mexican youth.
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Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
Standards announced Tuesday by the Secure Digital Music Initiative -- a group of computer and music companies -- will finally clear the way for the major record labels to make their top tunes instantly available.
Of course, you can always use a streaming music service on a computer and output the digital signal from there without any special equipment.
Mr Lobban also praised the technological achievements of Turing's colleagues - including Tommy Flowers, a post office engineer who designed and constructed the Colossus codebreaking digital computer.
Those interested in digital storage and the development of consumer, computer and enterprise technology will want to keep their eyes peeled for development next week and in the future as very useful solid state storage devices assumes greater importance in the overall digital storage hierarchy.
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The genome project, which the government began in 1987, aimed to speed the gene-hunting effort by providing the first full map of all 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA. (It was not necessary, in this effort, to run through all the pairs on each set of chromosomes, or 6 billion pairs.) And because the base pairs come in only four varieties, they are digital and ideal for computer decoding.
As the architect of multiple facets of the digital landscape, Apple expanded the definition of personal computer into the mobile realm with the iPhone and iPad.
Intel has already pushed Nvidia out of the business of supplying computer chipsets, the digital nervous system that all processors plug into to power PCs and laptops.
To design the suit gold medalist Billy Demong wore in Vancouver during Nordic Combined, which involves both ski jumping and cross-country, Flanagan and his team created a digital avatar of Demong's body and used computer imaging to determine the most aerodynamic pattern for stitching the suit.
Officials said they made digital radiographs and computer scans to document the internal condition of the battery before taking it apart.
With the HP DreamScreen's capabilities, it becomes the "fourth screen" in people's lives, extending the enjoyment of digital content beyond a computer, TV and mobile phone.
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The SEC seems to have understood the diversity of interests here: brick-and-mortar companies as well as high-tech pioneers, investors who live in the digital media and investors who may not even own a computer.
World War II gave us not only the digital electronic computer, but also, thanks to radar and microwave technology, modern telecommunications.
He began his career at Digital Equipment, and established the first tax department for Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) in the early 1980s.
Barry Cheetham, senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, is combining his academic expertise in communications, networks and digital signal processing with his love of choral singing.
According to digital researchers the Radicati Group, the typical corporate computer user sends and receives about 110 e-mails every day.
Then Mandel works his magic: Using an ultrasensitive digital camera attached to the back of a telescope and wired into a computer, he starts to pull images down from the heavens.
"We have around 140, 000 police officers in the UK. And yet barely 1, 000 of them have been trained to handle digital evidence at the basic level and fewer than 250 are currently with Computer Crime Units or have higher level forensic skills, " said David Harrington, report author.
Their cultures were entirely different, and Digital, once number two only to IBM in the computer trade, had been slipping for years.
Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are shipping hybrid HDDs targeted for the ultra-thin mobile computer market with up to 8 GB of flash memory and 1 TB hard disk storage.
And, they found, the actual number of illicit digital copies of computer games accessed on BitTorrent is nowhere near as high as claimed, with only around 12.6 million unique peers worldwide sharing illicit copies of games.
And so it was that from 1947 to 1951, the MIT Digital Computer Laboratory designed the Whirlwind I, the first digital computer at MIT.
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