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Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Lisa mouse Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse - albeit a boxy and clunky one. And while the Lisa tanked, most people remember the mouse as a key part of the Macs that followed it. [03 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. The internet, as the daddy of all disruptive technologies, heralded a new era of... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet The Amazon Kindle then - is that one of those book readers? That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size of a paperback novel - that can store hundreds or thousands of books in digital form. [07 Oct 2009]
Sentinel Keys Provide Vital Defense of Revenue for ECOSOFT's Cost Engineering Application
White Paper Founded in 1984, ECOSOFT provides integrated solutions for information management with software and market research. ECOSOFT's main focus is to address the business challenges of stakeholders in the construction industry. [01 Oct 2009]
Michael Dell
AS Profile While the computer hardware market may be on the wane, 2009 marks a return to the Agenda Setters list for Michael Dell. Since founding the computer maker in 1984 with savings of just $1,000 he has become a trailblazer in... [30 Sep 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile As head of Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service CRM company he founded 10 years ago, Marc Benioff is one of the longest serving evangelists of software delivered over the internet. Benioff is a big character - as those who have... [29 Sep 2009]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Open software guru, Richard Stallman, is an Agenda Setters regular having made the list numerous times before but he drops a few places in 2009, from number 30 in 2008. Stallman founded the GNU Project in 1984 to develop... [29 Sep 2009]
Amazon offers refund or redelivery for Kindle's deleted Orwell
News In an apology, Amazon has offered to redeliver copies of George Orwell novels that were mistakenly deleted from Kindle owners' libraries, or provide a gift certificate or check for $30. In July, Amazon received a torrent of criticism... [07 Sep 2009]
Technology Provider Improves Efficiency, Reduces Costs With Operating System
White Paper Vernon Hills, Illinois - based CDW was founded in 1984 and today is a leading provider of technology solutions to customers in the fields of business, government, and education. CDW stays on the leading edge of... [01 Sep 2009]
Leading Law Firm Solves Compliance Issue With Webroot Security SaaS
White Paper Founded in 1984, Watson Goepel Maledy has grown from four partners to a mixed practice firm of over 35 lawyers. The firm attributes a large part of its success to a strong customer service commitment that ensures every... [01 Sep 2009]
Amazon promises no Kindle repeat of George Orwell recall
News Amazon said late on Friday that it recalled two Kindle e-books because the publisher lacked the rights to the book. However, in the future, it says it won't pull already downloaded material from customers' devices. [20 Jul 2009]
IT Consulting Firm Caps Computer Room Costs Using HP Integrity Server Blade
White Paper Established in 1984, JCC Consulting Inc.is recognized worldwide as the expert in Oracle Rdb applications. JCC wanted to increase computing capabilities for Oracle Rdb-based application development and remedy excessive... [12 Jun 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo It may only be 44-years old but with its myriad switches and a chassis the size of a cupboard, the PDP-8 seems light years away from the modern PC. But this is the great granddaddy of today's netbooks and smartphones, it was the first... [07 May 2009]
Sage chief on Gen Y and tackling the recession
Comment Sage chief executive Paul Walker talks to silicon.com about the software company's tactics in the recession, its approach to cloud computing and what happens when the Facebook generation turns entrepreneur. [28 Apr 2009]
Health Plan Provider Uses Halogen eSuccession to Manage Leadership Talent Pools
White Paper CDPHP was founded by Albany, NY area physicians in 1984 as a not-for-profit individual practice association (IPA) model health maintenance organization (HMO).CDPHP's paper-based employee appraisal system took... [08 Mar 2009]
