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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment A number of e-reader apps - such as Stanza, Classics and Short Covers - have been available for some time on Apple's ubiquitous iPhone. One recent legal controversy took place in July, when Amazon apologised to its US... [27 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo It's a video laser disc player and includes film classics such as Star Wars, Easy Rider and Goldfinger. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated... [29 Sep 2009]
Gadget Watch: Nokia N86 smartphone
Photo The Nokia N86 8MP sticks to the template used by N-series classics like the N95. Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy... [07 Aug 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study The new website includes the facility for customers to buy cinema vouchers and play trailers, as well as the standard film time and content information.silicon.com Classics UK cinema chain Cineworld has relaunched its... [15 Dec 2008]
Voice biometrics, war tech and the history of computing
News First up was a look at an exhibition showing how the British PC has evolved over the years, with museum volunteer, Peter Chilvers, providing his thoughts on classics including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. [08 Oct 2008]
EC calls for more cuts on the cost to roam
News It proposed a retail cap of €0.11 excluding VAT on roaming text messages, combined with a €0.04 cap at wholesale level, to be introduced by 1 July 2009.silicon.com Classics The European Commission is pushing for further... [24 Sep 2008]
Photos: Top summer holiday gadgets
Photo Improve the breadth (and depth) of your holiday reading by packing a whole library of classics. Remembering what the kids got up to on the beach last summer will be a doddle with this nifty, ruggedised bit of kit that's... [11 Aug 2008]
SAP users air support gripes
News The German software giant announced on 16 July that it plans to move all customers onto its Enterprise Support programme by 1 January 2009, discontinuing the less comprehensive Standard Support.silicon.com Classics [25 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News Open Strategy, the company's effort to expose its own technology for outside developers in an effort to become a more indispensable part of the internet.silicon.com Classics In an attempt to boost its search-ad business,... [10 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News The 'telecoms package', which on Monday gained approval by the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), has sparked concern over its support for greater collaboration between ISPs and the content industry - an... [09 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they see virtualisation as standard for new application deployment now or within "a few years".silicon.com Classics Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted... [08 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment The choice of venue was not by chance.silicon.com Classics silicon.com is 10 this week. That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. The 1998 launch party... [07 Jul 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum - a dig at the print dinosaurs it has now replaced - the publication weathered the storms following the dot-com boom to take its place as the leading... [07 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The 10 craziest uses of RFID
News More from the silicon.com Classics series: The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a look at the 10 best, worst and just plain crazy uses... [02 Jul 2008]
Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...
News ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular first home computer by silicon.com readers. Check out where your... [28 Apr 2008]
