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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up In happier news, Microsoft has launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that allows web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets. The program seamlessly stitches together incredible images from the Hubble... [16 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment Magazines dedicated pages and pages to hundreds of lines of code that enthusiasts could use to program their own games and other applications. In fact, even now I can remember the hot flush of rage I felt when I couldn't get a game to work after... [22 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Cross was the group program manager for UAC, which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather than having administrator privileges, and offers a prompt if they try to install a program. [18 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up In response to the disclosure of the emails a harried-looking Microsoft PR officer offered the opinion that the executives had raised concerns with Vista to make the program better for customers. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer - him again... [07 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up It added, again straight-faced: "A program may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. On the bright side, at least one person was willing to see the silver lining in this particular cloud. [22 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment The good news is that the ruling brings the UK more in line with the EPO, which excludes patents for computer programs unless they make a contribution that is technical in nature - for example, a program that improves the ability of mobile phones... [13 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up The problem was quickly identified as being a glitch in a computer program that coordinated the detonation display. This is exactly the kind of thing that MPs like to make a song and a dance about and exactly the kind of thing that strikes cold... [04 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment Or document formats that are themselves a kind of encoding to make it hard to read them except in the program that made them. So when Mr Plod asks for a key you give him one and he discovers a virtual World of information that in reality is... [11 Oct 2007]
From CIO to consultant: Time for giving
Comment How can you mobilise an entire company behind one cause or conversely build a program that allows the company to support the individuals? The question is could I put something similar into practice in a company of one? [27 Sep 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment There are a number of approaches enterprise can take; the first of these is integration at the program level. One of the biggest impediments to becoming a joined-up enterprise is often the IT infrastructure. [14 Mar 2007]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment Having bought several application companies, Oracle has sketched out the multiyear Fusion program to have those companies' disparate lines run on Oracle's back-end software, such as application servers and portals. [25 Oct 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging Internet users. In an almost 'Dear Deirdre' confession the scammer says: "The problem I have is trust. This one claims to be backed by "industrialists from the internet hardware industry". [27 Sep 2006]
Open source - is it a risk for your business?
Comment Most open source licences allow the licensee to modify the program, enabling a considerable degree of tailoring. One significant limitation is that once the OSS has been modified, the licensee is usually obliged to put these modifications back into... [31 Aug 2006]
Devil's Advocate: It's simple innit?
Comment The data needed to define access permissions that can easily be stored in a couple of database tables and the questions and basic administration operations handled by a modest amount of program code. This is one of the factors in the success of... [10 Jan 2006]
Minority Report: The Apple gear I want for Christmas is...
Comment Businesses were attracted by the range of applications that quickly became available for the computer, in particular the ground-breaking VisiCalc spreadsheet program, which became one of the first true 'killer apps'. [07 Dec 2005]
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