By the fifteenth year chip PCs had begun their attack on the top-down computer establishment.
And Apple Computer also bucked the trend, thanks to buoyant demand for its new lap-top computer.
Just plug in your phone via USB for a top-up - even when the computer is switched off or in sleep mode.
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NYSE, transacts around a fifth of all retail-trading volume in Nasdaq shares such as Amazon.com with software that runs on a desk-top computer.
And I was an interactive champion on the 2000 Fox Family game "Paranoia, " winning a top-of-the-line desktop computer with camera.
Dell confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart outlets starting June 10.
Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) confirmed Thursday that the struggling PC giant--which rose to the top in the hardscrabble computer retail business by hawking its wares directly to its customers--will start selling desktop computers through 3, 000 Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) outlets starting June 10.
Using a corps of government-trained experts--a top designation is "Scers, " for Seize Computer Evidence Recovery Specialists--the group can copy the hard drives on 300 computers in a day, says Thomas Aleman, global leader of the unit.
"The thing that limits us is hiring the world's best engineers, " he says, noting that 60 percent of the students at the top U.S. computer-science departments are foreign-born.
"Today's computer users require top-notch connectivity in their devices, whether for wireless docking within a room or office, or more broadly throughout the premises, " said Vivek Gupta, vice president and general manager of computing, Qualcomm Atheros.
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This belief is partly a gut reaction to the tight grip of Microsoft and Intel, the world's top chip maker, on the personal-computer market.
Despite the computer maker's top- and bottom-line growth, investors were disappointed in the shortfall in gross margins, which reached only 17.6% of sales on an adjusted basis, whereas analysts had, on average, expected 18%.
But in an agent-based model you simply run a computer simulation to see what emerges, free from any top-down assumptions.
And remember, FlipShare has to be running and streaming video over the dongle the entire time you're using the set-top, so a lower-powered machine might feel the strain -- and if your computer goes to sleep, hangs, or crashes while you're watching the FlipShare, well, you won't be watching it any more.
One 61-year-old executive at a major computer-memory manufacturersays growth hormone helps him keep pace with other top officers at his company, most of whom are under 40.
Apparently, quite a few of his best students drop computer science at A-level because top universities are still sniffy about it.
Clothing sales made the biggest breakthrough last year, with apparel and accessories displacing computer hardware and software as the top non-travel category in online retail.
For many people without a games console or HDMI hookup to their computer, that means a Roku set-top box.
It led him to his experiments with the NeXT computer and then to the iMac after he returned to Apple, when he moved further beyond the original narrow view of the personal computer by renouncing the ubiquitous putty-colored box with a monitor on top of it.
D. in computer systems at Stanford while watching over two other fledgling companies--on top of his full-time Yahoo position.
In a notice on the top 10 list, the FBI described him as "a computer expert" with "above-average knowledge regarding computers, the use of the Internet, and security awareness".
Alpha-Top managed to keep its Apple business, although orders tapered off after it was acquired by Asustek Computer Inc.
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For the top executive at Iomega Corp. iom ( iom) , the Roy, Utah-based maker of computer storage devices, March proved to be the unkindest month.
Now OS X is at the heart of Jobs' plan to eat up market share in the computer business--and extend Apple's reach deep into everything from set-top boxes to mobile phones.
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