When so-called “minicomputers” first appeared in the 1970s, they supplanted mainframes on a scale of size and cost expressed by Bell’s Law, which holds that a new class of smaller, cheaper computers ...

It’s a truly modern irony: As our technological ambitions grow, our computers keep on shrinking. At the IBM’s Think Conference on Monday, the company unveiled the latest affirmation of this adage: the ...

Today, IBM will be showing off the world's smallest computer at its Think 2018 conference. This computer is the size of a grain of salt, contains a million transistors, and only costs .10 to ...

Everyone has seen PDAs and mobile phones which try to be more like computers. But this device is a computer trying to be more like PDA. The Fujitsu U1010 UMPC (which stands for ultra-mobile personal ...