News tagged with desktop
Shoulder pain from using your iPad? Don't use it on your lap
The sudden popularity of tablet computers such as the Apple iPad has not allowed for the development of guidelines to optimize users' comfort and well-being. In a new study published in Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, an ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Review: Thunderbird innovates, but Web mail wins
The last time I relied on email software for personal messaging, George W. Bush was starting his second term, Pluto was still a planet and the Motorola Razr was America's most popular mobile phone.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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PayPal tests in-store payment system at Home Depot
(AP) -- EBay's PayPal service is testing out a payments system in brick-and-mortar Home Depot stores.
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Improving security in the cloud
Less and less of today's computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Researchers develop one of the world's smallest electronic circuits
A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world's smallest electronic circuits. It is formed ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Computer with info on 4M patients stolen in Calif.
(AP) -- A Northern California physicians network says a computer stolen last month contains personal information on more than 4 million patients dating back to 1995.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Apple fans reach for Jobs' devices to mourn him
(AP) -- He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives. And as people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to mourn Steve ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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7 products Steve Jobs got wrong
(AP) -- Steve Jobs pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design, and the results weren't always pretty. Here are seven products created under his direction that failed commercially or functionally:
Oct 06, 2011 |
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US libraries lend digital books to Kindle readers
Thousands of US libraries on Wednesday began lending digital books over the Internet for reading on Amazon's popular Kindle devices.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Microsoft previews Windows 8, stresses tablets (Update 2)
Microsoft pulled back the curtain on new Windows computer operating software designed to power not only personal computers but also rivals to Apple's iPad.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Apple's updated MacBook Air props up cloud computing
Earlier this summer, Apple eliminated its entry-level plastic-clad MacBook to make the just-updated MacBook Air line, once a pricey niche laptop, its mainstream computer.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 31, 2011 |
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200 mn in US to use smartphones or tablets by 2015: forecast
Some 200 million Americans will own smartphones or tablet computers by 2015, with many people having both, marketing intelligence firm In-Stat forecast on Tuesday.
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Samsung Series 5 Chromebook irons out kinks
Consumers shopping for a PC have a new choice: laptops running Google's Chrome OS operating system.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Samsung delivers world’s first virtual desktop monitor with Cisco Universal power-over-ethernet technology
Last week at Cisco Live in Las Vegas, Samsung Electronics unveiled the world’s first zero client monitor using Cisco Universal Power Over Ethernet (UPOE) technology, heralding a new era of virtual desktops ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Microsoft takes Office into the 'cloud' (Update)
Microsoft took its Office software into the Internet "cloud" on Tuesday, moving the suite of popular business tools online amid budding competition from Google's Web-based products.
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Desktop
Desktop refers to the surface of a desk.
The term has been adopted as an adjective to distinguish office appliances (such as photocopiers and printers) which can be fitted on top of a desk, from larger equipment covering its own area on the floor.
Desktop may also refer to:
For more information about Desktop, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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