(1) The first industry title. From the early 1900s to the 1960s, data processing was tabulating machines and punch card processing. Thereafter, it referred to computer processing. By the 1980s, the ...

Last week, I posted a brief summary of sales tax issues related to software and computer programs. However, as the characterization and taxability of “data processing” is such a complex and hotly ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...