How Microsoft And Intel May Miss The Opportunity Of The Decade
Food for thought – If you ask Microsoft, Windows 8 is the idea how an aging operating system is modernizing itself and transitions into a new application and usage model for the next ten and possibly 20 years. On the hardware side, Intel appears to have dropped the tablet mantra a bit and is instead [...]
Mac Pro users clamor for hardware upgrade
Ardent users are clamoring for quick upgrades to Apple’s Mac Pro, while an unstable hardware timetable for the high-end desktop has raised concerns about the company’s commitment to professional users.The Mac Pro was last upgraded in July 2010, when Apple announced models with up to 12 processing cores based on Intel’s Xeon server chips. Mac [...]
Apple reaches for singularity in the post-PC world
Over the last decade Apple has sought to make digital devices that would supplant stodgy PCs and feed the growing appetite for connected devices with an “i.”Steve Jobs is gone, but he would be happy to hear about the death of the PC, the desktops and clunky laptops that were the face of computing for [...]
ON Semiconductor Introduces New Series of Adjustable Output Low Dropout Voltage Regulators for Automotive Applications
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has announced two new low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator ICs. Building on the company’s market-leading power management portfolio for automotive applications, the new devices are ideal for use in audio and infotainment systems, instrument cluster, navigation and satellite [...]
How the BBC Micro started a computing revolution
Dan Frydman remembers clearly how the computer he used at school in the 1980s changed his life. Now 38, he was one of the generation who grew up with classroom computers that almost anyone could use to write self-contained programs – the equivalent of today’s smartphone apps.The computer was the BBC Micro, a computing revolution [...]
Meet Susan Kare, The Pioneer Who Created The Mac's Original Icons
Kare’s designs contributed in no small part to making Apple computers accessible and friendly. [The following is Steve Silberman's introduction to Susan Kare Icons, available for purchase directly from the author.] Point, click. The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing seem so natural and effortless to us now that it seems strange to recall navigating [...]
Monitor hack hides your private computing parts
Now you see me, now you don't.(Credit:dimovi)While it may appear that Instructables contributor dimovi has been staring at a blank, white computer screen for hours, he’s actually getting some super secret work done.Dimovi hacked an old LCD monitor with a knife, paint thinner, superglue, and a pair of 3D glasses pilfered from the movies to [...]
How Steve Jobs really changed the world – Bikya Masr : Bikya Masr
To maintain their power, authoritarian governments monopolize force and information. the fear maintained by violence reinforces rigid ideologies and discourages independent thinking while control of information prevents open debate and the promotion of ideas that could foment dissent and threaten the regime. an act of defiance, even in death or among mourners at the funeral [...]
The Inner Workings of a Quantum von Neumann Computer
A few days ago, I blogged about the success of a research team at U.C. Santa Barbara in creating a quantum computing chip using von Neumann architecture – the type used in virtually all computers today. Since then, I’ve had an opportunity to discuss the technology with Dr. Matteo Mariantoni, the first author of the paper [...]
Has Google already become the next Microsoft?
I wrote recently how I believed Google’s US$12.5bn acquisition of Motorola Mobile was really about a calculated Google-style ‘big bet’ on the internet of things, a remarkable new world where devices of all shapes and sizes could unveil a living, breathing new world of information. I still believe that.Obviously, it gives Google patents, loads of [...]
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