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Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment There is not an equivalent open platform today where you can construct something Meccano-style, for example to interest kids. Though Acorn Computers produced its last desktop machine in 1998, today one of its former... [07 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Then again, most festival goers are equipped with smartphones to send video clips to their mates and tweet about all the great bands they've seen, and a GPS to find their tent after a day of moshing, so really this is just the BBC... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: Bowled over by high-tech cricket at Lords
Photo Lords also has a cricket school in which international players can hone their bowling and batting skills and school kids can learn the basics of the game. Vodafone and T-Mobile also have... [25 Mar 2009]
Asus turning its back on seven-inch netbook
News I still believe we have a good opportunity in 8.9-inch for kids, telecoms [providers] or emerging markets. Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar Asus is to phase out its seven-inch-screen Eee PC netbooks... [04 Mar 2009]
Photos: The world's biggest mobile shindig
Photo The company also had plenty of real phones on show too - including this waterproof mobile, shown here dipped in liquid, and a kids' mobile featuring GPS and a built-in panic alarm.... [23 Feb 2009]
War of 300 million devices will be won on software
News While there will still be almost double the amount of smartphones as netbooks in the market by 2013, mini laptops are the new kids on the block - with a growth rate to prove it. By 2013, the analyst believes 23 per cent... [02 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.01.09
Round-Up While most kids are adept enough to send texts in their sleep, many adults haven't even figured out predictive texting. Passengers on a twice daily, all business-class route from London City Airport to New York City's... [30 Jan 2009]
Smartphone wars: Can Windows Mobile ever be sexy?
News Click here to read page 2 if your 16-year-old kids come up to you and say 'daddy! A war is going on in the smartphone market and unless Microsoft can create the sexy device of buyers' dreams, Windows... [16 Jan 2009]
Wi-fi school buses let parents keep an eye on kids
News Wi-fi-enabled school buses are letting parents keep an eye on their kids' whereabouts as they make their way to school. A quarter of kids have used the wi-fi service more than five times, and more than... [13 Jan 2009]
High fibre, high investment and high speeds
News Free broadband for kids As the landline has been displaced by the mobile phone, so mobile broadband is starting to edge out fixed. According to analysts Analysys, a quarter of us will... [29 Dec 2008]
Photos: Top 10 presents for a CIO this Christmas
Photo The cute ruggedised mini laptop would make a handy web browser for using around the house and a handy pacifier for CIOs' techie kids. It not only stows your laptop but incorporates three solar panels which can provide... [28 Nov 2008]
Google's Android: Beware the malware?
News K is for Kids Google's mobile operating system Android could spell the advent of new security threats, according to security experts. Senior staff at security company Symantec warned that the open nature... [14 Oct 2008]
Symantec CEO on weathering the credit storm
News K is for Kids Despite repeated doom-mongering over the potential seriousness of mobile viruses, Symantec CEO John Thompson remains unconvinced. Speaking at the Symantec Vision + ManageFusion EMEA 08... [10 Oct 2008]
Jonney Shih
AS Profile The netbook concept was no doubt inspired by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project to bring low-cost machines to school kids in the developing world. Jonney Shih, CEO of PC and graphics card maker Asus,... [07 Oct 2008]
10,000 mobiles per month left in London cabs
News Other belongings left in cabs include a sawn off shotgun, false teeth, 12 dead pheasants, a variety of pets, toilet seats, funeral ashes, £2,700 in cash and even a couple of kids. Londoners are leaving 10,000... [17 Sep 2008]
