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 ...

This article suggests a strategy for using Personal Computing to provide decision support to individuals within an organizational context. The growing phenomenon of personal computing is recognized as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

For the past few years, I've been wondering how the Intel era was going to end. At Apple's Unleashed event on Monday, we got a glimpse of how that could play out. I'm not here to tell you that the ...

The computer ads of the '70s and '80s imagine a future in which every kid is a hacker and girls skateboard to work on their PCs. From Edison To Apple, Innovation Is Always About Copies And Remixes ...

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 ...