Instead, Indian officials have described it as a "computing device".
Defined as a computing device that forgoes the usual keyboard as its main input method, numerous vendors have unsuccessfully pursued this Holy Grail.
If they do not strip it down enough, then Microsoft stands the risk of replacing the PC as a computing device, leaving the company at odds with its long-time allies, the PC manufacturers.
In CUDA, the GPU is viewed as a computing device with massively parallel capability (e.g., supporting tens of thousands of concurrent threads).
Analysts also expect the company to provide more commentary on its recent foray into smart phones, having introduced its first line in China and Brazil late last year, as well as a tablet computing device it demoed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
Compact and smart, the Aspire one provides continuous access to the Internet in an easy-to-use, stylish and ultra-mobile platform.Light enough to tote in a backpack at just 2.17 pounds, the Aspire one is designed to be an affordable, entry-level, "first PC" solution for students, as well as a secondary computing device for on-the-go tech savvy enthusiasts and professionals.
A truly mobile internet future is now a reality - 4G networks can serve faster and more content than ever before, mobile devices will outsell laptops as a primary computing device as early as 2014, and more and more companies want a piece of the customer frenzy, delivering different browsers, phone features, screen sizes and so on.
At a presentation in Mountain View, Calif., Google made official its plans to sell its own mobile phone, called the Nexus One.The rapid emergence of the smartphone as a versatile computing device may be as much a challenge as an opportunity for Google, which built its multibillion-dollar empire largely on the sale of small text ads linked to search queries typed on PCs.
As great as the iPhone is as a mobile computing device, it is still first and foremost a phone.
Jobs positions it as a third computing device between a laptop and a smartphone geared towards the "key tasks" of Web browsing, email, sharing photos, watching videos, playing games, and reading digital books.
Steve Jobs positions the tablet as a third computing device between a laptop and a smartphone geared towards the "key tasks" of Web browsing, email, sharing photos, watching videos, playing games, and reading digital books.
