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DESIGNING PORTABLE COMPUTERS
This topic explores the process of conceiving, engineering, and designing portable computers. Since 1968, when Alan Kay first conceived of the portable computer, inventors, engineers, and designers have been on a quest to design smaller, more powerful, and easier-to-use portable devices. Notebook computers have been refined to the point where very powerful computers can be packaged in very small containers. Now the challenge is to make smartphones the personal computer of the 21st Century.
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Amazon.com Inc., seeking to build on its expansion into e-readers and tablets, is working on a smartphone that will go...
The Tablet War Is Moving To The Next Level. It Is Not Just A Game Of Interface And Content, It Is A Service Platform...
Malcolm Gladwell has an excellent piece on how Apple created its first computer after visiting Xerox parc.
The Zen of Steve Jobs from the Wall Street Journal blogger Steve Yang offering insights into the genius Apple...
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday it will keep its personal-computer division, backing away from its former chief...
I write today about a beloved company – Hewlett-Packard (HP), and all that it has meant to my life. One of my first...
looking for sites and apps to review. We are especially interested in hearing from businesses that are using...
looking for sites and apps to review. We are especially interested in hearing from businesses that are using...
Online behemoth nudging customers to have their smartphones replace wallets
analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (MRVL US): The maker of the processor that runs...
Google is being sued by PayPal, which claims that the internet search giant stole its technology for turning...
summer, is Google's entry into the increasingly competitive business of turning mobile devices into digital credit...
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Google announced Google Wallet , a mobile payments system using the Near Field Communications technology built into...
developing popular franchises. However, they've had mixed success translating those film, television, and theme park...
percent of the world's personal computers. But it has failed so far to adapt its chips for smartphones and tablets, an...
displays puts Toshiba in the electronics industry's sweet spot. "The expansion of Nand and small-panel demand from...
By Imagine if smartphones always worked as fast as home Wi-Fi networks, and no one had to pray that a cellular signal...
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Charles Schwab has joined the ranks of financial institutions that offer mobile deposits via smartphones.
- hitherto just aimed at commercial clients - to link all sorts of things it sees through a smartphones camera to other...
- hitherto just aimed at commercial clients - to link all sorts of things it sees through a smartphones camera to other...
While Google Wallet and Offers are cool, it may take a while for the technology to become mainstream. Smartphones sales...
a simple one: Parlay the success of its mobile app store into a similar offering for desktop and notebook computers.
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