Thanks mostly to the iPhone, Apple not so long ago a maker of niche desktops and laptops is now worth more than any other company in the world and just had the most profitable quarter in history.
The company is best-known as a maker of PCs, and desktops and laptops still account for the majority of its revenue, but Dell said the company made a "concerted shift" into enterprise solutions like security, data centers, cloud, and services.
Babylon, a maker of popular for-pay translation/dictionary desktop software, certainly thinks so, and they are launching Lingoz to prove it.
MyDIYCNC is not the only maker of desktop CNC machines for home users.
Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 maker of desktop microprocessors, plans to begin selling new versions of its Athlon chips today for desktop, notebook and data-serving computers.
Red Hat, which makes operating systems based on Linux, just purchased Qumranet, a maker of virtualization software that runs on servers and desktop computers.
Intel had said on Monday that it would buy Xircom, a maker of mobile computing gear, for $748 million, to complement its line of desktop computer components.
Competitors like Advanced Micro Devices, which produces chips for desktop personal computers, and Transmeta, a maker of fast chips for notebooks, brought new products to market.
"Microsoft is the ocean," said Mark Eppley, a veteran software industry executive who is president at Laplink Inc., a maker of software that enables users to synchronize the files on their desktop and portable computers.
Earlier this week, Wanova, a desktop management service, raised $10 million, and Pure Storage, a maker of high-capacity storage drives, raised $30 million.
Earlier this week, Wanova, a desktop management service, raised $10 million, and Pure Storage, a maker of high-capacity flash storage drives, raised $30 million.
