Once upon a time no one had computers on their desks, but some researchers had terminals in their offices that let them remotely access a big computer somewhere else. Now the idea of terminal ...

Dumb terminals are the future for consumer computing. So says the British government, which is launching an environmental taskforce to encourage people to switch. Powered by high-speed internet, one's ...

With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in ...

A smartphone packs enough computing punch that it could morph into your next computer, if you only had a way to get past the small screen and tiny keyboard. Celio, a Salt Lake City, Utah, company, ...

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The idea of connecting a basic computer to a more powerful one over a network isn't new – the first modern computer networks began as dumb terminals that accessed smart mainframes – but improvements ...

This article is excerpted from Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches and published by permission of Prentice Hall, all rights reserved ...

[Jack Eisenmann] is no stranger to building impressive DIY CPU’s on vast stretches of breadboard. This time [Jack] has done away with the seventeen breadboards he used in his last 8-bit computer and ...

The Connected Car Consortium demonstrated MirrorLink 1.0 at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show, a means of replicating smartphone functionality in a car dashboard. Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes ...