software in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Furthermore, better tax incentives for investment, corporate venturing, R&D support and so on could all help young software companies flourish in the UK. A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK... [06 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment Eventually, Apple software supported contextual clicking in late versions of OS 8 and the company eventually released a couple of multi-button mouses. A mouse to complement its rather splendid computers and even finer... [03 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up The tech industry has always had a soft spot for the paranormal, what with its mailer-daemons, software wizards, trolls and the like. No, the Round-Up doesn't mean consultants doing the annual software... [30 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment For those on the Microsoft Software Assurance licence agreement, this cost is a non-starter: with Software Assurance you already have the right to the new licences. While Windows 7 solves most of the... [28 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment While Apple has benefitted from a strong hardware and software offering in recent years, it has also benefitted from a key piece of third party software - Windows Vista. The software has... [20 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment Jive, an enterprise-focused social software company, has a catchy tagline: it says it's going to "liberate SharePoint content". Workers need to share data from many sources - but, says David Tebbutt, today's tools don't... [20 Oct 2009]
Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment This may be less of an issue when you have direct control of every part of the chain - but in today's complex arena of outsourced services, infrastructure and software, the challenge can become unmanageable. [19 Oct 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment Think tea-serving robots, motorised shoes and software products that solve a gripe endured by three people globally. After the event few missed the chance to suggest that governments spend millions on... [14 Oct 2009]
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment It is difficult to determine whether the Macintosh platform would be more expensive than Windows because most IT departments and companies have no idea how much Windows is costing them in lost productivity, excessive training costs,... [13 Oct 2009]
Steve Jobs
AS Profile He's "adding excitement and sex appeal to consumer technology", said another and "continuing to create software and devices that are the benchmark for how cool media consumption can be" according to a third. [08 Oct 2009]
Christian Engström
AS Profile For Engström it is his latest move in his ongoing battle against digital copyright, working as an unpaid activist within the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a not-for-profit organisation that lobbies against... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile His founder credits can be found on video-on-demand service Joost; P2P software firm Joltid; and file-sharing software company Kazaa, among others. Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of Skype -... [08 Oct 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment The craze for a suitable software engineer son-in-law to bring in to the family has evaporated with the economic recession and the ensuing pink slips, pay cuts and depressed job market. Girls' parents worry about the... [07 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Today, as well as serving as head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Hopper is the chairman of remote computing software maker RealVNC, tracking system maker Ubisense and chip designer Adventiq. [07 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up Next week, a survey uncovers the shocking truth that what software sales managers claim the software does and what it really does when it's installed are rarely the same. Sometimes fairly, though often not. [02 Oct 2009]
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