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There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.

There are 25 years of PC industry and 40 years of computer industry history that says there is never enough performance. My article in faith is that you will never have enough computing performance for things you want to do. Having said that, there are clever software people somewhere who are thinking of even cleverer things to do.

The very first fruits of that acquisition are what we're announcing on Monday. The advantage has to do with packaging and the density of the computing infrastructure -- how you place the stuff in the box to get better performance at higher speeds and with cooler operation. Our view is that Andy Bechtolsheim is to enterprise computing what Steve Jobs is to consumer computing.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

Toshiba's new Satellite A105 platform balances state-of-the-art features with affordability in an attractive notebook design with Toshiba quality, reliability and innovation throughout. It is designed for people who desire all the advantages of mobile computing but don't want to give up the screen size and features of a desktop PC.

We live in a digital world that is filled with more information, more things to do, and more ways to communicate with others than ever. With our Windows Vista product line, we've streamlined and tailored our product lineup to provide what our customers want for today's computing needs.

StorageTek gives Sun instant storage footprint, huge storage credibility, and a fantastic billion dollar service business. Sun gives StorageTek a whole new playground. Together, I can see grid computing and grid storage joining to provide some very powerful solutions moving forward.

Product development across multiple organizations is particularly challenging here, because for the past decade, we've grown as much as 30 percent a year. We not only needed to address design complexity but any solution we implemented also had to be usable in a wide variety of engineering and computing environments.

With our Windows Vista product line, we've streamlined and tailored our product line-up to provide what our customers want for today's computing needs.

Two- or four-processor computing is the typical entry point in lieu of grid computing. If it works on inexpensive servers, then good for you.

Developing software is way too hard. I think we just haven't been able to keep up with the huge increase in memory size and computing power.

Companies should educate their users to practice safe computing - that includes never opening unsolicited email attachments and discouraging the sending and receiving of joke files, pornography and screensavers. This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk.

As part of our commitment to delivering secure, private and reliable computing experiences for everyone, Microsoft aims to provide timely, relevant and easy-to-understand security guidance so business customers can maintain a more secure enterprise environment. The Security Summits are a great venue for both IT professionals and developers to learn about key trends in the security industry, including how to prepare for advances in security technologies and how to develop more secure business applications.

At yesterday's meeting, management expressed confidence that operating margins in the computing systems segment should double in six to nine months,

As computing and communications devices converge, the need for higher performance components will grow. This facility will help us meet that growing demand.

AMD and China share a deep mutual respect for the ability of technology to promote economic and educational opportunities, ... AMD's investments of technology, facilities and resources are a sign of our commitment to provide industry-standard x86-based computing solutions to the people of China.

Personal computing is on the cusp of a significant shift in how users interface with the wide array of devices used on a daily basis -- whether you're at home, in the car or just on-the-go with a mobile device, the simplest way to find information is by voice. We're thrilled to collaborate with an industry leader in chip innovation like Intel and to demonstrate at the IDF conference that voice technology has arrived.

Our customers define us as a trusted and established technology partner that not only provides a well-integrated blade cluster solution, but also understands the rest of their computing needs. We are happy to provide our customers the flexibility, high-performance and simplicity to help them achieve their business objectives.

Our emergence is not the finish line, it's the beginning of a new race, ... Somewhere between telecommunications and computing there's a new kind of company, and that's what MCI will be.

There's only one program that's really important on your PC and that's an Internet browser. Once you have access to the Internet, you have everything computing has to offer,

There's no sales rep, and we are not negotiating, so the price is fixed at $1 per CPU per hour. People are talking about software as a service. This is computing as a service, and no one else is doing this.

Yet many significant challenges remain to be solved in the push toward digital inclusion on a global scale. We hope these programs will encourage more researchers to pursue approaches in computing technology that advance these goals--getting us one step closer to digital inclusion.

We believe Microsoft will be hurt by weakness in the consumer PC space, which represents roughly 10-15 percent of its business. As we have said, the shift to browser-based computing is slowing the need for upgrades, and perhaps the more sophisticated gaming platforms are removing the need for homes to have the latest high performance PC's. As a result, corporate PC's will have to pick up the slack in the next quarter.

This announcement addresses three major industry trends organizations' focus on cost reduction strategies, organizations' need to find measurable value for IT investments in a very short order, and organizations' need to allow their staff members to collaborate with one another from wherever they are, using whatever network enabled device they choose. Customers deploying open source software in a virtual machine can reduce their software and hardware costs, and simultaneously enhance their agility in addressing future computing needs.

This is a more shrink-wrapped approach for the concept of grid computing that targets a more modest area of use.

Advances at the upper reaches of high performance computing such as these often find powerful applications in the broad spectrum of government, industrial and commercial arenas. IBM 's close working relationship with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has resulted in another significant achievement with the potential to improve the lives of people everywhere.

A difficult retail environment resulted in significant discounting, so lower prices for clothing, household appliances, tools and computing equipment are possible. A low CPI number obviously increases the odds on the Reserve Bank continuing to sit on the sidelines.

A formula for computing in the workplace: one third of the time is spent being productive. One third of the time is spent playing games. The remaining third of the time is spent trying not to get caught.

You start to think of buying desktop hardware as buying a PC by day and a server on a distributed computing architecture at night. It's cheaper than the next mainframe.

This is a whole powerful computing microcosm by itself.

I've got a half-dozen computers in my house. But this cult of computing gives me the heebie-jeebies.

In 1998-99, enterprise software companies were actually harmed by shift to Internet computing because they didn't have products to offer in that category. They are now just beginning to enjoy the product cycle in Internet-architected software. In addition, there is a broad shift to e-business throughout the economy and a heightened appreciation of the value of e-commerce.

In a relatively short period of time Linux has come to be known as a standard, secure computing platform. This new level of certification is a testament to the power of collaboration. IBM, TCS, the NSA, Red Hat and the community have worked together to bring the Linux platform forward with rapid innovation in the area of security. This collaboration and evaluation effort will make Red Hat Enterprise Linux the most secure open source operating system platform available.

In the genomics world, we are supporting Craig Venter's original vision of getting an ability to have gene sequencing occur for the masses. While we have a single genome sequenced, the real benefits for humanity come when there are tens of thousands of genomes sequenced and the computing power available today can correlate certain sequences with certain diseases or drug interactions.

Intel has pretty much dominated the computing environment, but it made some decisions that cramped its progress. It hasn't been able to handle the needed performance increases.

If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.

Slate tablets accounted for 24% of all tablet shipments in 2005, and Motion Computing maintained a dominant position with 35% of that market share in the US.

Smaller, targeted attacks are on the increase, with the emergence of a new breed of financially-motivated online criminal. The concern is that if users continue to combine unsafe computing practices with outdated threat protection, they'll be a soft target for this new form of attack,

Sun's vision of computing is a promising one because it will allow a great variety of clients to participate on networks without the prior installation of special protocol stacks and LAN-specific software drivers on each client machine. Instead, the software drivers can be delivered via Java technology, on a just-in-time basis, as needed. Interoperability will be enhanced, and that interoperability will be good for end users both in the office and at home.

The bottleneck of PC computing is the laborious nature of hierarchical command structures. It limits the user experience and leads to feature underutilization. The 205PRO can dramatically change this. In commercial applications, the productivity improvement is direct and measurable. For the rest of us, it makes software more interactive and engaging.

Symbol provides a complete family of rugged mobile wireless computing devices and we team closely with our customers to provide the best solution for their mobile workforce. Our solutions truly empower a mobile worker with information at the point of activity, no matter where that is, and enhance productivity and efficiency where it counts. Symbol is taking a leadership position in converged voice and data in mobile computing as well as integrated imaging for both bar code data capture and image capture.

The big hurdle we have is just to get the education out there?get people exposed to the pen computing experience for the first time?and once that happens people get it immediately. If you have the right price at the right time interesting things happen.

It's really a great idea that has been realized past its prime; it's like today somebody coming out with a Ford Model T. These (new) devices are very powerful in terms of computing capabilities; they can look at regular Web sites and work just fine.

Once in a generation an opportunity like this comes along to bring dramatically improved computing benefits to millions of people.

As mobile computing has become mission critical for businesses of any size, Dell found that customers care about durability, security and constant access to critical business information. These new Latitude systems address and exceed these customer needs in robust design, comprehensive security options, integrated mobile broadband and significant reductions from the prior generation products in weight and thickness.

At the present time I am trying to win acceptance for a program of support for scientific computing in universities from industry and government.

I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.

The core concept around utility computing has not changed. The priorities are to solve immediate problems, and give customers the confidence that we can set them on a path towards a data center that will be more automated, and aligned with business needs.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Their focus has been in a couple of key verticals, especially in markets like digital media - you can't go anywhere without having Apple in that market, ... They have done a really good job of penetrating that market - some of the scientific and technical markets are a crossover from that because of the high-powered computing aspects.

Their focus on the enterprise computing and global services segment produced 51 percent of total revenue and 90 percent of total profits in the fourth quarter. A continuing improvement in the mix is expected to drive gross margins to almost 25 percent next year from 23.5 percent this year.

The value placed on today's computing assets has made theft prevention and recovery software an imperative tool,

Cisco wants people in the entertainment and computing industry to understand that they are the way to get something from point A to point B over the Internet.

If you see the future of computing as 'give me the answer now,' it favors something like Cell, a computer platform designed for photorealistic modeling.

I headed back to Ann Arbor, still having enough contacts there to get my job back at the Computing Center, and liking the city a lot.

The VR-1 is our first entry into the semi-rugged market, so we set out to make the best laptop in terms of durability, published standards, and sheer computing performance,

These three ingredients bring the best of computing to the world of networking and the best of networking to the world of computing.

It was my dream to create a single, open format for all applications, independent of technological change. Content has to be neutral to the computing platform, survive and be readable forever.

It lends credibility to the entire concept of a clustered file system, multiple disparate servers accessing the same data, which has been fairly esoteric until now, ... It has typically lived in the more technical computing space. This kind of brings it into the mainstream. I expect to actually see an increase in interest now that this stuff has been open sourced. I think you'll see a lot of innovation and innovative uses.

APS is an industry leader in creating innovative technology solutions specifically designed for the public safety industry. The company has demonstrated profitable revenue growth and has built a strong market position. The APS acquisition opens up a new vertical segment in which Trimble can offer public safety agencies complete mobile computing and resource management solutions.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

Apple is not looking at the chip for differentiation. It's counting on its hardware and software for that. If anything, it's taking the line of thinking that the chip inside makes little difference to the quality of the computing experience.

Avnet Applied Computing Solutions is committed to customer service. We rely on Avnet Applied Computing Solutions to deliver the highest levels of support to its embedded manufacturers and solution providers, ensuring a rewarding wireless and mobility experience for our customers.

A growing number of organizations are interested in moving away from closed, proprietary technology platforms in favor of an open computing model. As one of the fastest growing operating systems in the world, Linux is emerging as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows as an email and collaboration platform.

All four of the vectors in mobile computing are improved, including speed, battery life, wireless connection load balancing, and security.

The market continues a fundamental shift toward mobile computing that is contributing significantly to top-line growth.

The first Pilot organizer was such a runaway success, even we were a bit surprised. But in one of my first conversations with Jeff Hawkins he convinced me that the future of personal computing -- REAL personal computing -- was going to be in these highly mobile devices. That's why he designed the Pilot. And that vision still holds today. The Pilot and its many Palm successors have become an extension of millions of people's lives -- keeping them connected to their work and home, letting them do email and browse the web on the go, allowing them to keep all their favorite files, music, photos and videos with them. I'm enormously proud of what we've accomplished, and I'm even more excited about what's yet to come.

The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation.

The challenge is always going to be software. The primary issue is availability of applications to get to broader and broader segments. Also, most companies do not have the technical capabilities to run high performance computing facilities of their own. It takes a lot of power and data center space.

The computer industry is not in the best long-term interest for us. The increased use of computers, e-mails, computing games and other electronic entertainment gadgets has cut into people's free time.

It proves that our strategy of focusing on enterprise network computing is paying off.

As we aggressively drive improved visual computing capabilities to the personal computer, graphics solutions are an increasingly important part of mobile PC platforms.

It's sort of a response to the whole way computing is evolving.

There's been lot of expansion happening in the notebook computing space. That has helped Intel quite a bit, but they need to have something new if they are going to maintain their presence.

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender and sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender, and then sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

It is very different from anything we have seen before. For the first time, we have a computing monoculture. Monocultures in the natural world are extremely vulnerable to pests such as viruses.

This is the highlight of the show, this is the future of handheld computing right here, ... The Springboard expansion slot will do to handheld computers what the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) expansion slot did for PCs -- it opens the door to a whole new realm of possibilities.

Google is this era's transformational computing platform and could be about to unseat Microsoft from its throne,

Google is this era's transformational computing platform and could be about to unseat Microsoft from its throne,

Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to understand global climate change.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

The 'Discover the PC' initiative is part of Intel's longstanding and comprehensive approach towards sharing the benefits of personal computing with those who have traditionally had neither the access nor the means to use technology.

Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.

Many of the holy grails of computing that have been worked on over the last 30 years will be solved within this 10-year period, with speech being in every device,

Technical computing is crucial to the many discoveries that impact our quality of life; from making safer, more efficient cars and airplanes to addressing global health issues and environmental changes.

Power computing has pioneered direct marketing and sales in the Macintosh market.

The average consumer lives in a world of more digital content and information than ever before. Windows Vista will make personal computing more useful, powerful, connected and fun, redefining both how we use computers in our homes and how we are entertained.

As a leader in the computing industry, Microsoft has a responsibility to help its customers address these concerns, so they no longer have to choose between security and usability. This is a long-term effort.

The impact on our society of the computing revolution is simply breathtaking -- it has changed the way we work, play, learn and communicate.

There isn't the buzz and excitement about computer science that there should be. We're on the threshold of extraordinary advances in computing that will affect not only the sciences but also how we work and our culture. We need to get the brightest people working on those opportunities.

It may seem strange to have somebody who works at the very lowest end of computing here addressing the supercomputing audience,