When you think of the history of personal computing, three figures stand out--Gordon Moore, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. They represent the major platforms of personal computing today, but their ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. When I started using a computer in the mid-1970s, it was on a ...

Today we're going to talk about the birth of personal computing. Today we're going to talk about the birth of personal computing. Up until the early 1970s components were just too expensive, or ...

You can forget about the IBM Personal Computer and drop all the pretense about the 1984 Apple Macintosh. When it comes to which personal computer is the most influential of all time, there can only be ...

For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour of Code (offered by Code.org) and as obviously ambitious as Code Year ...

THINK about the last time you used your mobile phone. Was it to make a traditional voice call? Or was it to balance your ...

I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this, but I thought people on ARS might have an opinion... As a work from independent contractor, largely on open source my home office consists of one well ...