The original iMac and its successors showed that the traditional computer tower is extraneous for most consumers.
This number would include traditional computer devices, mobile devices, as well as the new industrial and consumer devices that we think of as things.
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Meaning: You get in the door with a contract to manage some aspect of a customer's business then go for additional work, including traditional computer outsourcing.
Both Gartner and IDC have trotted out their preliminary estimates for PC market share in the third quarter, and the two agree that this summer was a dire one for the traditional computer.
From there, it was a short hop to start a course that builds on those successes while simultaneously aiming to eliminate the social problems that drive women out of traditional computer science programs in the first place.
Once you started to worry about users NOT using a traditional computer, than you are in the good state of mind to rethink the way your content and services have to be restructured in a true mobile context.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
The numbers are in sharp contrast with the traditional personal computer market, which saw shipments decline during the quarter for the first time in more than five years.
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Although the machine is not a technical tour de force, its compactness, glowing green transparent shell, absence of conventional cables and simplicity appeal to both traditional Macophiles and computer virgins.
Current research indicates that over 75% of today's tablet owners have increased their mobile device usage over the traditional laptop or desktop computer for both work and play.
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They have sued SonicBlue over the ReplayTV device, which records TV programming like a traditional VCR but uses a computer hard drive instead of tape.
And while the crew at Firaxis is busy working on the next computer strategy game, traditional board strategy games have been making a revival as well.
Windows 8, released in late October, can be controlled by touching a display screen, as well the more traditional use of a keyboard or computer mouse.
Because the gamers pay as they go, rather than just once for the traditional game that they load onto their computer, it can be extremely lucrative if they get hooked.
It is operated from a computer workstation, rather than by traditional aircraft controls, and has an automatic landing system.
Which is why, according to Chip, companies like Independence IT are taking over the traditional technology space previously occupied by the local computer guy or technology firm.
Over the past year the intermittently profitable Santa Clara, California computer maker has moved from quoting traditional pricing-per processor for hardware, per user for software-toward a surfeit of new choices.
Over the past year the intermittently profitable Santa Clara, Calif. computer maker has moved from quoting traditional pricing--per processor for hardware, per user for software--toward a surfeit of new choices.
It beams the ear's geometry into a computer, without the mess of a traditional mold or the radiation if CT scans were used to measure ear anatomy.
By integrating what we currently think of as a television with what we currently think of as a computer, one could toggle between watching traditional content, Internet content or checking email between shows, or possibly while watching shows in a FaceTime-like separate box on the screen.
The protect part means the PC maker plans to defend its traditional strengths, such as its China business and corporate computer Thinkpad brand.
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Had Apple stuck to its guns as strictly a computer company, duking it out with its traditional competitors, its outlook would have been mediocre at best.
By 2007, the traditional retailers, as well nontraditional ones such as Dell Computer were collecting sales tax on-line and half of online purchases were subject to sales tax.
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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.
Microsoft will continue selling software the traditional way, for a one-time fee for one Windows computer.
This may show how investors will react when, as seems inevitable, traditional exchanges give way to 24-hours-a-day computer-trading.
NASA's traditional approach has been to invest heavily in detailed systems engineering, computer simulations and extensive analysis through the early stages of major projects.
With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs.
Part of what has made WikiLeaks so much more effective than traditional hacking efforts, after all, is that whistleblowers with privileged accounts within computer networks are a far more efficient source of embarrassing data than hacking techniques such as random searches of filesharing networks.
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To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
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