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Elon Musk
AS Profile Musk has a string of successful start-ups behind him - the first of which, a content publishing business called Zip2, he created at 24 and later sold for more than $300m. Proving great technology ideas don't have to be a... [29 Sep 2009]
Matt Mullenweg
AS Profile Matt Mullenweg is the 25-year-old founder of technology start-up Automattic, which among other things makes the free blogging platform WordPress and automated moderating tool Akismet. Texas-born... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that started life back in 2006 as a side project for staff at a San Francisco start-up but has since mushroomed into a social networking... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News This will force us to start taking open source more seriously. The UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. In February the CIO Council published a... [29 Sep 2009]
How SAP Customers Quit Paper: Keeping Inbound Documents Electronic
White Paper Nearly all business documents start out electronic, but many end up getting printed out and shuffled around. Electronic documents cost 40-70% less than paper to process, and you benefit from: Complete... [29 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News But it's coming, Rattner said, illustrating his point with help from 3eality Digital, which showed a professional camera that can shoot live 3D video, and Silicon Valley start-up HDI, which is working on... [28 Sep 2009]
Naked CIO: Beware the mobile app frenzy
Comment Do research on your partners or developers and ensure that they have a track record for developing that goes beyond just mobile applications as there are a lot of unstable start ups right now in the space. [21 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo You can start selling these services in a much easier way when you've got the reliable [broadband] service behind it. You enable the speeds and the applications start coming. A BT spokesman said... [17 Sep 2009]
Intuit snaps up start-up Mint.com in $170m deal
News Intuit said the acquisition of Mint.com, a start-up launched two years ago that tracks personal finance data, will help it gain more clout in the software-as-a-service sphere. Financial software maker... [15 Sep 2009]
iPhone still king of apps: But don't ignore Android
News Apple, which has at least a two-year head start on the rest of the market, will clearly be the first priority for developers for a long time to come. The long-awaited flood of Google Android devices is about to hit the... [11 Sep 2009]
Chrome extensions? Developers' wish is Google's command
News We're ready for a few more people to start using extensions - the kind of adventurous people who populate the dev channel," said Boodman, who earlier in his career developed the Greasemonkey tool that permitted extensive... [10 Sep 2009]
Give workers a say in corporate IT
Comment The first and most obvious is to acknowledge that consumerisation is unstoppable, so the sooner you accept this and start to figure out how to deal with it, the better. Just learn to manage it appropriately. [09 Sep 2009]
Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo The game takes less than 45 minutes to complete and players are then able to start the game again to make different choices and see if they can get better results. Forget storming Martian bases or battling advancing... [08 Sep 2009]
Firefox for phones: Alpha 3 lands on Windows Mobile
News In addition, Mozilla says it has increased Fennec's start-up time, although users will need to reboot the Windows Mobile phone for the difference to take effect. On Friday, Mozilla released Fennec Alpha... [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Kevin Murrell, director and trustee of TNMOC, said its engineers are keen to start restoring the Witch machine. Work began this week on restoring what will be the world's oldest working stored-program electronic computer. [04 Sep 2009]
