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The iMac made an instant impression when Apple first unveiled it in May 1998. But it didn't start to really shake things up until it began to ship -- which happened 10 years ago on Aug. 15, 1998. Arguably the most influential desktop computer of the last decade, the original iMac's specifications seem quaint by today's standards. For $1,299, you came home with a 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 32MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 15-inch built-in monitor, and stereo speakers -- all in an amazingly stylish case.

Pixar has been traditionally big on using using Linux servers for their RenderMan Pro Server software. Even though the company was developed by Steve Jobs and later sold to Disney, Mac servers as cluster nodes are not widely used, according to Computerworld on Friday. There are multiple reasons for...

The first Android-powered smartphone will be manufactured by High Tech computer, and will have a large touch screen that slides out to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard.

AMD this week unveiled several new chips that can run business-class desktop computers.

iPhones, electric toothbrushes, antilock brakes — all of these are products of a field called mechatronics, which combines physics, computer science and mechanical engineering. Students training in this difficult discipline at the University of Virginia get to have some fun, too; as a class project, they built electric guitars and robotic mice.

T-Mobile will be the first Mobile phone carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google's Android software. The high-end smartphone, which will be made for T-Mobile by the world's top smartphone maker High Tech computer Corp, is expected to challenge Apple iPhone as well as other smartphones that run software from Palm, RIM (Research in Motion), Microsoft and Nokia. The T-Mobile Android smart phone is expected to go on sale in the U.S. before Christmas and perhaps as early as October. - (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone based on Google Inc's Android software, the New York Times reported, citing people briefed on the company's plans.The high-end phone, which will be made by the world's top smartphone maker High Tech Com...

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