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Comment Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite didn't feature on the poll… And from old computers to the latest in high-tech cool, the age-old debate - Mac vs PC - got readers riled... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment For some younger members of the team we had to explain that in the golden age of home computers the idea was you could actually use these - at the time very expensive - pieces of hardware to create your own programs. [22 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08
Round-Up Given that PC users make up the vast majority of the computer-using world it comes as no great shock that there were far fewer "cohesive personality traits" among the throng, reports Advertising Age. Also according to the Advertising Age article... [01 Feb 2008]
Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?
Photo Although it took until version 10.3, known as Panther, to really come of age, Apple's crown jewels have won it plaudits for usability, design élan, stability and interoperability. Seb Janacek sifts out his favourite Apple products from more than 30... [24 Jan 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user?
Comment Applications that previously took an age to wake up would now snap to attention faster than keen new recruits on the parade ground, he told me. What was his favourite new feature? My friend rather smugly revealed that he had just got a new laptop... [15 Jan 2008]
Happy birthday silicon.com - nine today
News Even at the grand old age of nine silicon.com is still coming up with innovative ways of delivering the information its readers need - for example this year launching the silicon.com CIO 50, celebrating the top technology leaders in the UK, as... [06 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet While it's currently still most popular with younger age ranges, you'd be wrong to think it's exclusively for the under-18s. Users typically build an individual profile - which might consist of photos, contact details, a blog or favourite links... [15 Jun 2007]
Brits are web addicts of Europe
News The research estimates that on an average day in April this year there were 122 million Europeans age 15 or older online - compared to 114 million in the US. Germany has the largest online population, 32.6 million people age 15 and older, while the... [04 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.07.06
Round-Up And in this age of a far more democratised media world, the customer then posted the video on YouTube, resulting in thousands of people watching the clip of the coma-cast Comcast worker. Perhaps we are all too cynical in this day and age. [28 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.04.06
Round-Up He famously suggested that Gates was "probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age". RFID and tracking systems - the high-tech future of old age? Sun Microsystems founder and Round-Up favourite Scott McNealy stepped down as CEO... [28 Apr 2006]
Yahoo! dating site has security issues
News In the age of instant messaging and email, answers to such questions are often easy to obtain with a bit of social engineering, said Bennett Haselton, a freelance programmer and internet free-speech advocate in Seattle who discovered the weakness. [21 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.05.05
Round-Up It's aimed at older age groups who don't want to worry about 'new-fangled' functionality such as 3G, MMS, MP3s and WAP. Retrofone offers many of our favourite handsets from yesteryear and upon quizzing by the Round-Up ('Yes, but battery life is... [27 May 2005]
Online news sites more liked than ever
News Among all age groups, local news via the web has yet to attract much interest and just 10 per cent of younger users now say they favour getting their local news updates online. Analyst house Jupiter Research has discovered that the number of adults... [27 Apr 2005]
Leader: Email versus RSS
Leader And that's just the sort of talk gets advertisers worried in the age of personal video recorders for the TiVo generation. As we've long known, factors such as overall internet penetration and the culture of preferring to meet face-to-face have an... [28 Feb 2005]
Apple pioneer dies at 61
News Jef Raskin, the computer interface expert who launched the Macintosh project for Apple, died Saturday at age 61. Raskin, who named the Macintosh after his favourite fruit, joined Apple in January 1978 as employee number 31. [28 Feb 2005]
