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The design of desktop Wikipedia [ has ]... not seen any substantive changes for the past 10 years, leaving certain elements of the site's navigation feeling clunky and overwhelming. – Olga Vasileva	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The government's successful monopolization case against Microsoft may very well have paved the way for companies like Google, Yahoo and Apple to enter with their own desktop and mobile products. – Makan Delrahim	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We didnt compute the high tides and low tides that each of the five moons experienced at the same time every few hours for 4.5 billion years to do that right, it would take about 20 years on a desktop computer. – Marc Neveu	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
More than 40 million Indians are coming online every year, and search is an integral part of their online journey, from seasoned desktop shoppers to first-time users with entry-level smartphones, we hope this new shopping experience will make finding what people are looking for just a little bit easier. – Surojit Chatterjee	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Passive viewing is still children's number one activity, whether it's a video game, or laptop or desktop computer, children are still sitting. – David Hill	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We’ve made it very clear that it was more of an industrial-type machine 3D printer, there was a lot of, ‘don’t you guys get this [consumer] desktop trend? There you go again HP, you don’t get it.' But we were really clear in our convictions that the market wasn’t there with the current technology. – Stephen Nigro	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Plants are great from a psychological perspective, you don't want to pack too many into a small space, but it can be great to have a small plant on your desktop, or something a little larger in the corner of your office. – Sally Augustin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Fairly early on it became clear that desktop e-commerce would likely underperform our expectations while mobile commerce was poised to over perform. – Gian Fulgoni	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Search traffic on mobile phones have now surpassed desktop traffic worldwide. – Sundar Pichai	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For example, we could print on a latex hospital glove, cover it in silk with these other chemistries, so that when you wear the gloves and touch a contaminated surface it would change color to red, or imagine you have a complex cut -- you just take a picture and send it to the printer and print a special bandage with drug distribution that follows the shape of the wound. And this could be done on a desktop computer, like printing a picture. – Fiorenzo Omenetto	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The sequential decrease in MUUs was reflected in both Web and mobile, but at a greater rate of decline on Web, which we believe is due to a continuing decline in overall Facebook desktop users. – King Digital	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I was just taught very early that if I didn’t solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I’m like, you know what? I don’t like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon. Or I don’t like the way my phone integrates with my desktop; I want to come in and talk to my computer. – Chicago Tribune	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. – Steve Jobs	added by anonymous 12 years ago

The design of desktop Wikipedia [ has ]... not seen any substantive changes for the past 10 years, leaving certain elements of the site's navigation feeling clunky and overwhelming.

– Olga Vasileva

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The government's successful monopolization case against Microsoft may very well have paved the way for companies like Google, Yahoo and Apple to enter with their own desktop and mobile products.

– Makan Delrahim

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We didnt compute the high tides and low tides that each of the five moons experienced at the same time every few hours for 4.5 billion years to do that right, it would take about 20 years on a desktop computer.

– Marc Neveu

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

More than 40 million Indians are coming online every year, and search is an integral part of their online journey, from seasoned desktop shoppers to first-time users with entry-level smartphones, we hope this new shopping experience will make finding what people are looking for just a little bit easier.

– Surojit Chatterjee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Passive viewing is still children's number one activity, whether it's a video game, or laptop or desktop computer, children are still sitting.

– David Hill

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We’ve made it very clear that it was more of an industrial-type machine 3D printer, there was a lot of, ‘don’t you guys get this [consumer] desktop trend? There you go again HP, you don’t get it.' But we were really clear in our convictions that the market wasn’t there with the current technology.

– Stephen Nigro

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Plants are great from a psychological perspective, you don't want to pack too many into a small space, but it can be great to have a small plant on your desktop, or something a little larger in the corner of your office.

– Sally Augustin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Fairly early on it became clear that desktop e-commerce would likely underperform our expectations while mobile commerce was poised to over perform.

– Gian Fulgoni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Search traffic on mobile phones have now surpassed desktop traffic worldwide.

– Sundar Pichai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For example, we could print on a latex hospital glove, cover it in silk with these other chemistries, so that when you wear the gloves and touch a contaminated surface it would change color to red, or imagine you have a complex cut -- you just take a picture and send it to the printer and print a special bandage with drug distribution that follows the shape of the wound. And this could be done on a desktop computer, like printing a picture.

– Fiorenzo Omenetto

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The sequential decrease in MUUs was reflected in both Web and mobile, but at a greater rate of decline on Web, which we believe is due to a continuing decline in overall Facebook desktop users.

– King Digital

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was just taught very early that if I didn’t solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I’m like, you know what? I don’t like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon. Or I don’t like the way my phone integrates with my desktop; I want to come in and talk to my computer.

– Chicago Tribune

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

– Steve Jobs

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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