THE COMPUTER HARDWARE INDUSTRY Executive Summary: The computer industry is capital intensive and technologically driven and can be divided into three main segments; the supercomputer, mainframe, and personal computer. There have been several factors that have impacted the computer indust...

What comes to mind when you hear the word 'hacker'? For most it means stealing information through the Internet, gaining illegal access to another person's PC, or simply - disruptive behavior using a computer. The subject of hacking is no secret to the general public. Many people have been expos...

"The best way to appreciete the metris and consequences of being digital is to reflect on the diffrence between bits and atoms" (p:11)says Negroponte. A bit is the smallest part of the information and composed of 0 and 1. To digitize any information it needs to be writen in 1 and 0. ...

How Will We Use Tomorrow's P.C.s? Tomorrow's PCs are going to be different in many ways; they will be more powerful, they will include more facilities for multimedia, and looking further ahead, they may have features such as three dimensional displays, or wrap around virtual reality. These change...

Computer Crime James George states that it is a story as old as humanity: "New times bring new crimes" (97, F1). First came cars, car thieves followed. Telephones were followed by telephone fraud. Now we have computers. Computers have made home, school and office life easier. ...