PCs at first glance may seem like the ultimate productivity enhancer. They let you plan and budget far more effectively than a calculator or table. They make it possible to keep track of people and ...

Back in 1990, I was asked by Microsoft to look closely at a product in the works that turned out to be the company’s first tablet. The focus on this device was a stylus-based device centered on what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. I have had the privilege of tracking the personal computer ...

New platforms such as tablets and smartphones, loads of new virtualization technologies, and the need to access the desktop from any device, anywhere, forever change personal computing. The next ...

The reign of the personal computer as the sole corporate access device is coming to a close, and by 2014, the personal cloud will replace the personal computer at the center of users’ digital lives, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I joined Creative Strategies in 1981, I was initially to ...

It is interesting that computer terminals were introduced in the 1970s and were largely obsolete by the end of the 80s, making their service life relatively short when compared to PCs which were ...

Personal servers, like Umbrel and Start9’s Embassy, are ways for people to have more control over data and become more sovereign in the process. Pascal Hügli is a lecturer at the University of Applied ...

In 1989, I wrote a piece in one of my internationally syndicated columns about a mobile computing concept that was very modular. Back then, portable computers were pretty bulky and heavy and having to ...

One of the concepts I stressed during my speeches at the recent ITEC conferences surprised many people: stop calling computers “personal” computers. Changing that attitude will lower your hassle ...