The term terminal has two meanings in computer science, relating to an individual computer and to a computer network. In the context of an individual computer, a terminal is a device that enables the user to communicate with the computer. Generally,...

A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. A computer terminal is an instance of a human-machine interface(HMI). The function...

The veteran reporter that we talked to yesterday had more to say about the conditions in the Post newsroom than we could handle! Here's our source's entire description of life on the 10th You’ve got people literally crammed into a little over four feet for...

Rupert Murdoch’s $5 billion offer for The Wall Street Journal and the rest of Dow Jones & Company has aroused the passions of anyone interested in the newspaper business—and none more so, of course, than the Bancroft family, which has held a majority interest in...

IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.Germany's data protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how...

In a span of seven years, Loretta Weathers moved from a plasma physics laboratory at MIT to a federal courtroom, trading long days of crunching data for the adrenalin rush of high-stakes litigation.The daughter of a Detroit autoworker, she had been tinkering with gadgets since...