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Levine, who was named the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ first CIO in 2005, is responsible for significantly improving the FAS network by reducing the number of outages, bolstering high-performance computing programs, and strengthening plans for the University Desktop program—a standardization of computers among faculty and staff to improve support service...
Conflicts are beginning to take place in other areas where Google has ventured. That includes e-mail and office programs (Gmail, Google Docs), a cell-phone operating system (Android) and a Web browser (Chrome). Google scans and sells books, runs a phone system and is even working on a desktop operating system to rival Windows. CEO Eric Schmidt recently stepped down from Apple's board of directors because the two companies now compete in so many areas. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a legal settlement between Google and the publishing industry over the company's book-scanning service...
...boxes will fall 16% this year. Analysts predict that electronic items like personal computers will also see a sales decline. "We expect that it's going to be a disappointing season," says Ashok Kumar, tech analyst at Collins Stewart, an advisory firm. Kumar points out that life cycles of desktop computers are stretching from four years to as much as six years; laptops used to last about three years; now consumers are getting an extra year out of them. "Parents are asking kids to make use of existing resources, just like companies," Kumar says. Over the past four years, Beemer...
...probably know that smart phones - cell phones as versatile as desktop computers and connected to the Internet - have been around for more than a decade. But thanks to the iPhone, the category has suddenly become white hot. (See the best inventions...
...History of Computing in the 20th Century” and “Operating System Principles.” On his walls are computer science charts affixed with masking tape and hangings of Japanese calligraphy. But the most prominent feature in the space is his pristine, widescreen Mac desktop computer. “It was an exciting moment,” he says, referring to its predecessor...