The Palm Pilot reached a million customers faster than any other computing device in history.
What these numbers really reflect is the change in what is being considered a computing device.
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But the intelligent coffee table of the future may be the central computing device in your home.
For the first time, traditional magazine ads and TV ads suddenly become compelling on a computing device.
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Net platform, which is its strategy for delivering software as services available over the Internet from any computing device.
In addition, the PadFone Station offers an optional keyboard dock that essentially turns the PadFone into an ultraportable computing device.
Sadly, after reading through the details, this "Display Housing for Computing Device" sounds like a plain 'ol laptop case to us.
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Nonetheless Google Glass does clearly indicate that the next wave of disruption for the mobile computing device lies beyond the smartphone.
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Google Glass is the wearable computing device that provides Internet content to the field of vision, along with photos, videos and speech-to-text technology.
The wearable computing device market will grow to 485 million annual device shipments by 2018, according to a February report from ABI Research.
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The more ambitious, and potentially vaporware bit, is Envizions' hopes for the system as a game development platform and a cloud computing device of sorts.
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And of course, Apple was working on a lower-cost computing device.
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Her software, which helps children understand facial expressions in real time by carrying a small computing device with them, eases the transition from computer interaction to human interaction.
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With storage getting smaller even as capacity increases, Dulaney suggests there may not be a need for some users to carry a mobile computing device who otherwise would.
Sharp Electronics unveiled its Mobilon TriPad PV-6000, a Windows CE-based computing device that can be used in three different operating positions: standard notebook (clamshell), pen tablet (slate), or easel mode.
There's also a 1936 first edition of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society where mathematician Alan Mathison Turing introduces the concept of a "universal machine, " an imaginary computing device.
No longer are users bound by the limitations of a single computing device, but instead are free to experience a multitude of devices, platforms, and mobility (both socially and physically).
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The ultimate ambition, according to Professor Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey, is to produce a type of universal memory "that you can take from one computing device to another".
On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. search giant announced that it had cobbled together an alliance of 34 companies seeking to turn the mobile phone into a freely open computing device.
As the perfect combination e-reader, media player and portable computing device, HTC EVO View 4G offers a 7-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen display with pinch-to-zoom for a premium entertainment experience with HD-quality video and rich Web browsing experience.
Then there's Eben Upton who came up with the Raspberry Pi project to make a very cheap computing device for schools, and games industry legend David Braben , who has done so much to promote the idea.
Note: Canalys defines a client PC as a computing device designed to be operated by an individual and positioned to serve a broad range of purposes, achieved by running third-party applications, some of which can work independently of a network connection.
Unlike the more powerful general purpose computing device such as the personal computer or, more recently, the smartphone, embedded devices are typically things like cars or thermostats which are only given a limited amount of computing power and memory to accomplish specific tasks.
"The compelling combination of pen and true multi-touch offers users the freedom to select the input method of their choice, whether it be the pen or their fingertips, when interacting directly with their slate, tablet, notebook or other computing device, " said Amichai Ben-David, CEO, N-trig.
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According to the claims, hearing aids worn by at least two users will work in tandem with a personal computing device to identify user identities, establish a communication link and then swap profiles -- not a list of likes and dislikes, but dynamic audio settings.
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For example, it is becoming increasingly common for every K-12 student to have a computing device, interactive whiteboards are now commonplace, cloud computing is lowering the costs for software implementation, and social networks are increasingly playing a part in our everyday social and educational lives.
These include gaming, visual computing, embedded device and machine software and now security.
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View any device or computing mode that can access or affect the corporate network as a potential part of the network.
The simple view of the shift from device-centric to user-centric computing goes like this: when all we had was one device a PC, first to do our work and later to connect to the Internet we adapted to the device.
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With smartphones, the individual has both computing and networking in a device as portable as a wallet but not as personal.
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