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Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment It was unusual in those days to do it [set up a technology company], where as today it's completely usual. Acorn was set up in 1978 and as one of its three founders, Hopper still keeps what he calls a... [07 Oct 2009]
Time to polish up your CV: The IT job market is getting better
News IT workers can start polishing up their CV once again If you've put your job hunt on hold during the recession, it could well be a good time to start sending out your CV once again.... [05 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment For the most part I link up with them by email and social networking sites. I receive a lot of requests from others to link up, as well as invites to special interest groups (these I filter to ensure the... [05 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving with Dolphins exhibition last month. Here, a pair of GIs set up one of the remote video terminals in an exercise at Fort... [02 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open-source company in the world. Mickos is also on the board of cloud computing... [01 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment Hyper-reality was rife early this year after shrink-wrapped boxes of iPhone nanos turned up in Thai markets shortly after the Macworld conference. With reports abounding of the mythical Mac tablet being unveiled at the... [01 Oct 2009]
Shai Agassi
AS Profile Like fellow Agenda Setter Elon Musk, Shai Agassi has a history of notable achievements in tech - in Agassi's case, founding start-ups and working his way up the ranks of SAP - but he got the panel's nod... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He has also provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies. Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the XO - the device formerly known as the $100 laptop - makes his third appearance on the Agenda... [30 Sep 2009]
Google Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit
News The Ribbit team recently showed off their prototype widget, which lets Wave users quickly set up a conference room inside a "wave" message on the service. Then anyone in the wave can call all the participants at once to... [30 Sep 2009]
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. He followed up the sale with the... [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 Sirius' Taylor said opening up the public sector to the open source market would introduce much-needed competition to how government buys its IT software and services. This will force us to start taking... [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]
