Car culture and PC culture share more vocabulary than you’d think—often entire concepts lifted straight from automotive engineering. Here are nine common PC terms that came directly from car culture, ...

As I wrote last year, more people are working mobile, making a smartphone and tablet the centerpiece of at least their out-of-office work lives. The analyst firms' PC definition belies the fact that a ...

Everybody knows that computers were huge and unwieldy in the middle of the 20th century. But a lot of the tech terminology that we take for granted today had to be invented at some point. Such is the ...

The first CD-ROM subscription service that aggregated articles and abstracts from major computer periodicals. Starting out in the early 1990s, it wound up with more than 175,000 article abstracts and ...