... sport. It is also the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US and published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four-element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. ...

... want to fuss with soldering irons: all the ingre- dients for a functioning PC were provided in a convenient molded plastic case. It looked clunky, y... ...e of a cryptic blinking cursor in the up- per left corner of the screen: the PC awaited instructions. But the hurdle was not high. Some owners were in... ...VisiCalc helped to convince a skeptical world that there was a place for the PC at every- one’s desk and hence a market to build many, and to build th... ...ng. By the 1960s, the company name was International Business Machines, and IBM dominated business computing. Its leadership retained Hollerith’s ori... .... Its leadership retained Hollerith’s original control paradigm: firms leased IBM’s mainframes on a monthly ba- sis, and the lease covered everything—h... ... ma- chines because everything was already included as part of the deal with IBM. Further, while IBM’s computers were general-purpose information proc... ...el for PC operating systems has remained unchanged from the founding days of DOS through the Windows of today: the company sells each copy of the oper...

...proxy server, or in a central, dynamic server. Resolving from the client's PC, e-book reader, or PDA has the advantage of being able to respond to th... ...e- content sales. Now the timing of Microsoft's big push for the MS tablet PC begins to make more sense. The Gemstar format has an established bas... ...hnology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) - including Microsoft, IBM, Alcatel, Nokia, Siemens and 1300 other member firms - intend to chall... ...ore in-depth coverage of its topics while the Encarta is a more complete, PC-orientated reference experience. The market positioning of the Britannic... ...nterface) - which replaced cumbersome and unwieldy text-based interfaces (DOS) - became an integral part of the astounding success of the PC. Yet, ... ...ative consultancy firms predict 66 million active users in 10 years time. IBM envisages 700 million users. MCI is more modest with 300 million. At t... ...his, needless to say, is the world's most popular software (following the DOS operating system). The Internet must rely on something completely dif... ...s. I recall my programming days with ASSEMBLY, COBOL and PL/1 on a clunky IBM 360 and later, IBM 370. We used Hollerith punch cards. It was all very... ...the infantilism and amateurism of it all. Taming your computer by lashing DOS commands at it was still the thing to do. But, gradually, we were all ...

...ple II, Macintosh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. ... ...II, Macintosh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. 1990... ...sh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. 1990s  Wirel... ...er Richard Feynman, who had assisted in establishing the system for using IBM punch cards for computation. Then, as a twenty-two-year-old workin... ...bs more because he makes Pixar/Disney movies, not because he invented the PC along with Steve Wozniak. Yet the PC changed the world so much more. ...

...ple II, Macintosh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. ... ...II, Macintosh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. 1990... ...sh, Motorola). 1980s  The Internet is in full bloom.  IBM PC with MS-DOS, Windows, laptops.  World Wide Web, cellular phones. 1990s  Wirel... ...er Richard Feynman, who had assisted in establishing the system for using IBM punch cards for computation. Then, as a twenty-two-year-old working o... ...bs more because he makes Pixar/Disney movies, not because he invented the PC along with Steve Wozniak. Yet the PC changed the world so much more. Y...

...ephone and many have a fax, a mobile phone, an Internet connection, and a PC. As a result, work-from-home and flextime are burgeoning. Increasingly ... ...t outcome of arbitration involving the two unions - will represent all of IBM's 26,000 workers in its German subsidiaries. Ver.di includes as one of... ...the vast improvement on both scores in electrical appliances. The VCR and PC of yesteryear cost thrice as much and provided one third the functions ...

...... ..., many people write free software because they are paid to do so. Amazingly, IBM now earns more from what it calls “Linux-related revenues” than it do... ...“Linux-related revenues” than it does from traditional patent licensing, and IBM is the largest patent holder in the world. 13 It has decided that the... ...s. E pur si muove. 6.See Bruce Brown, “Enterprise-Level Security Made Easy,” PC Magazine (January 15, 2002), 28; Jim Rapoza, “Open-Source Fever Spread... ...PC Magazine (January 15, 2002), 28; Jim Rapoza, “Open-Source Fever Spreads,” PC Week (December 13, 1999), 1. 7. “UK Government Report Gives Nod to Ope...

...nk about the vast improvement on both scores in electrical appliances. The VCR and PC of yesteryear cost thrice as much and provided one third the ... ... surface. The result is a major simplification of the processing terminal (the net-PC) and an increase in its cost efficiency. Both collective symb... ...nk about the vast improvement on both scores in electrical appliances. The VCR and PC of yesteryear cost thrice as much and provided one third the ... ...ous examples are Apple (which kept its operating system a well- guarded secret) and IBM (which did not), Microsoft (which kept its operating system ...

...nk about the vast improvement on both scores in electrical appliances. The VCR and PC of yesteryear cost thrice as much and provided one third the ... ... surface. The result is a major simplification of the processing terminal (the net-PC) and an increase in its cost efficiency. Both collective symb... ...nk about the vast improvement on both scores in electrical appliances. The VCR and PC of yesteryear cost thrice as much and provided one third the ... ...ous examples are Apple (which kept its operating system a well- guarded secret) and IBM (which did not), Microsoft (which kept its operating system ...