Market share of products is important to keep track of so that software developers will know the most profitable area to focus building applications. comScore conducted a survey over several months to determine the number of people using smart phones. The survey was reserved for American mobile customers over the age of 13. They were [...]

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Back in university, we were using Amdahl terminals running off a mainframe running the MTS operating system. The speed we got from this machine was around 1 MHz. I wasn’t very impressed since my home computer was running at 4.77 MHz. However, the area where the mainframe wins is throughput. It could have hundreds of [...]

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher (1788-1860)
 
Ask most people today about the dangers of cell phones, wireless networks, and microwave ovens, and they’ll probably laugh at you and dismiss any negative thoughts you may have. These things [...]

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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will now be in control of Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). The new standard, ISO 32000-1, Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7, is not only an excessively long name but its also based on version 1.7 of PDF.

The PDF format was created in 1993 [...]

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On June 8, 1978, Intel released the 8086, the world’s first 16-bit microprocessor. This CPU was vastly superior to the existing 8-bit processors used on computers at the time. The family of x86 refers to the instruction set of microprocessors used from the 8086 to today’s modern Pentium 4 processors.

Intel has effectively won the war [...]

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