Kano
Children today have access to smartphones, tablets and laptops. They are powerful and intuitive, offering the Web and an ever-growing library of apps to explore. Learning and accessing information has never been easier.
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Tablet shipments will grow 67 percent this year to 256.5 million.
We will buy more tablets than notebooks for the first time ever this year. But by 2017, we’ll buy six times more tablets than laptops, according to market researcher NPD.
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The PC industry is dying, so let’s move on.
The market-research firm, Gartner, has finally come out and said it: The PC market is dying. Except it hasn’t said that, quite. But it is, and saying so is really important.
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85.5 million people access social networks via a smartphone or tablet app.
People are accessing the web more frequently and for longer periods, using smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and smart TVs both in the U.S. and globally. We’re still using PCs as well, but personal computer usage of social media is just about the only category that’s down: 4 percent fewer Americans connected to the Internet via a PC in 2012, while 82 percent more connected via the mobile web and 85 percent more connected via a mobile app.
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PCs consumed the majority of memory chips since sometime in the 1980s until 2012.
We have been hearing for years about the so-called Post-PC Era. But now it seems pretty hard to argue with. Personal computers no longer consume the majority of the world’s memory chip supply as of this year.
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Horace Dediu’s chart
An excellent chart has from analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco shows the ratio of PCs sold to Macs sold each year since the early 1980s (via Philip Elmer-Dewitt, who notes that the peak year for Microsoft dominance was 2004).
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Smartphone sales will exceed 1.5 billion units per year by 2016.
Last year smartphone sales blew past the number of PCs sold, and they’ll be nearly twice PC sales this year, analyst Alex Cocotas of BI Intelligence predicts.
Those were the days.
MS-DOS has turned 30 years old this week. Microsoft’s first desktop operating system was launched on July 27, 1981, after Microsoft bought the full rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), the PC operating system the company acquired from Seattle Computer Products…
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People tend to replace their phones much more often than they do their computers.
Smart phones such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone are outselling personal computers for the first time ever, according to a report by research group IDC that was released Monday.
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Computer fire
Keeping your computer running within safe temperatures is important, especially as the temperature rises outside. Here’s how to make sure your computer’s not overheating—and how to fix it if it is.
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Meeting Milo
Serious groundbreaking technology here. I have always said that motion controls for gaming, no matter what tech you used to derive your motion control, was a complete dead end for gaming, unless someone developed a revolutionary method to make it essential for gaming.
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A screen shot from the aptly named Yoostar, which lets you play opposite Marlon Brando in ‘The Godfather’ or Marilyn Monroe in ‘Some Like It Hot,’ among other scenes
You ought to be in pictures, eh? Yoostar might provide your first big break at stardom — at least in your living room or out in cyberspace. This portable movie studio is like karaoke for the movies, featuring real actors and clips from actual movies.In one scene, I took over Humphrey Bogart’s role opposite Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina. In another I assumed Kevin Costner’s part (opposite Burt Lancaster) in Field of Dreams. You can be Brando’s Don Corleone in The Godfather. Or substitute for Elmo or Grover in Sesame Street.
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