This will now cause the browser to declare itself to sites as a desktop device.

Less than five years ago, a one-million-instructions-per-second desktop device was a very advanced product.

Beginning early next year, consumers will see the fingerprint chip introduced in notebook computers, then in desktop devices.

Bring it home, snap it shut, plug it into your monitor and you get a desktop device with the extra power.

These may be used independently of the desktop devices.

The result is what Ms. Goldring calls a seeing machine, a smaller, simpler desktop device that cost less than $4,000 to build.

Furthermore this is compounded by the wealth of different types of desktop devices for presentation of information.

Achieving nuclear fusion, even in a desktop device, is not particularly difficult.

A tone remote may be a stand-alone desktop device in a telephone housing with a speaker where the dial would have been located.

System administrators cannot expect to have the same access to mobile device clients as they would have to desktop devices that don't leave an office.