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A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
The VidyoCampus Program is used by colleges and universities to deploy the system to every desktop throughout their collaboration community. VidyoHealth is a scalable high-definition telemedicine product that uses the public Internet and existing general purpose IP networks at medical facilities for doctor-patient and doctor-doctor interactions.
Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.
TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet.In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming.
The cathode ray tube was the workhorse of text and video display technology for several decades until being displaced by plasma, liquid crystal , and solid-state devices such as thin-film transistors (TFTs), LEDs and OLEDs.
OnLive was a provider of cloud virtualization technologies based in Mountain View, California.OnLive's flagship product was its cloud gaming service, which allowed subscribers to rent or demo computer games without installing them.
Commodore released the VIC-20, which had 3.5 KB of usable memory and was based on the MOS Technology 6502 processor. Magazines became available which contained the code for various utilities and games. A 5¼" disk drive was available, along with a cassette storage system which used standard audio cassette tapes.
Liveware was used in the computer industry as early as 1966 to refer to computer users, often in humorous contexts, [1] by analogy with hardware and software. [2]It is a slang term used to denote people using (attached to) computers, and is based on the need for a human, or liveware, to operate the system using hardware and software.