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...Launched in August 1998, the iMac’s translucent “Bondi” blue casing stood out from a field of beige PCs....
...Three further efforts also got nowhere as the PC era took full hold. Even if seen as dinosaurs, mainframes that trace their heritage to an Amdahl design live on....
...Mr Jobs wanted to make a fancier design. And he was already thinking about making the iPhone,” recalls the 62-year-old....
...The job-creating benefits of Apple’s products accrue from every business activity that they facilitate: every graphic designer or architect who doesn’t have to struggle with a PC, every media company that...
...It failed to update the design of microprocessors and focused on speed....
...Under Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates’ successor as chief software architect, Microsoft has responded with a strategic vision focused on “software and services”....
...The design, by the Manhattan firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, is close to the ground, close to nature, compatible with its natural surroundings; the interiors, by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, are...
...How appropriate that the most of the badly designed crap is in a badly design “city” Las Vegas”…As a real architect not a faux one who stole the professions moniker, I would love to see the press go deeper...
...The Fire Department of New York is helping to design a game that simulates emergencies and teaches fire fighters how to deal with hazardous materials....
...The manager has to put in an e-mail to the architect. We need an answer quickly. We can’t sit and twiddle our thumbs.”...
...In 1986, aged 25 and with a freshlyminted masters degree from Stanford University, Mr Gelsinger was appointed design manager and chief architect of the 486 microprocessor....
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