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Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Cheat Sheet And accessing software over the internet is a good thing because? It complements the search giant's move towards offering software over the internet, which started in 2004 with the launch of Gmail, the... [23 Nov 2009]
Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Comment It is unlikely that any individual citizen developer will carry adequate insurance (if any) for such risks or have sufficient assets to back up such protection. Citizen developers represent an innovative... [23 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and email software package dating back to the Netscape era, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began work on a simplified browser... [10 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News A multitude of Microsoft operating systems have been launched into the world since the first versions of Windows appeared back in the early 1980s. But after all these years of development, which operating system... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com crafting a wave app that can help companies deal with customer queries. In this picture, one of Booyah's... [30 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's launch tomorrow will see it enter the market amid one of the toughest squeezes on IT budgets for some time. With the state of the finances in the public... [21 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet It looks like the software behemoth is already putting Vista behind it: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has even stated that he doesn't mind if businesses skip the OS as long as they come back for Windows 7. [20 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar told silicon.com that because project managers buy more new hardware and new software for each project, consolidation is not happening - and that IT departments need to be going... [19 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Hackspaces provide a form of bottom-up R & D that is entirely separate to corporate efforts. They have proved their mettle in collaborative 'hackspaces', display a tenacious commitment to innovation and, if the business... [14 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo There's also cloud back-up so any data kept on the phone is also stored remotely. It pays to look back before looking forward and Trolltech's Greenphone - which debuted in 2006 - was an... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News The report added that because some of the issues with software as a service - such as security and availability - are being resolved, take up is likely to increase in the next few years. Of its list of... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News It seems to be feeling the benefit: on Wednesday Sainsbury's announced total sales in the first half of the year, excluding fuel, were up 7.1 per cent over the corresponding period in 2008 and its weekly transactions now... [09 Oct 2009]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile Whether it is launching new products - such as the souped-up iPhone 3G S - or merely the rumour of new products, such as the much discussed but unconfirmed Apple tablet - Jobs and Apple have earned the power to set the... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Indeed, since Skype turned up on the tech scene it's tough to find a year when Zennström hasn't figured in this list - back in 2007 and 2006 he made the top 10; in 2005 he ranked in the top five and made... [08 Oct 2009]
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. Hopper is proud of that legacy: "That all dates back to Acorn and the chipwork in the late 70s. [07 Oct 2009]