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Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past

News The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing homelessness after receiving no firm offers to save it. We have a very significant collection and the history of computing is so vitally important as, today, computers are in...

Tags: history, museum, computer history

[01 Apr 2008]

Dell goes shopping for storage solution

News Michael Dell, CEO of the company, said in a statement: "Our customers will be dealing with the largest increase in data we have seen in our history over the next few years. Dell has announced plans to acquire EqualLogic in a $1.4bn cash deal, as...

Tags: dell, data, storage, cnet news

[06 Nov 2007]

Facebook banned by half of employers

News Details such as employment history and mobile numbers have been found on the site and could be used for identity theft or to launch corporate phishing attacks. Cluley added it is difficult to tell when people are using a social networking site when...

Tags: security, sophos, social networking, facebook

[21 Aug 2007]

Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!

News Last week, Ask said it would allow people to search anonymously and would not retain a user's web search history at all if the searcher didn't want it to. Cookies are small files stored on a computer so that the computer can be recognised when it...

Tags: data, search, yahoo, microsoft

[23 Jul 2007]

Telecoms body may disappear

News If the proposal is passed, it will mean the end of the CMA's 49-year history as an independent organisation. The Communications Management Association (CMA) will, pending approval by its members, be swallowed by the British Computer Society (BCS...

Tags: bcs, cma

[22 Jun 2007]

Essex school lessons paper trail with digital portal

News The system is based on Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit and enables coursework to be filed electronically, so that teachers can access it easily and review a student's progress by looking at their coursework history.

Tags: learning, online, portal, school

[19 Jun 2007]

Intel to make chips in China

News Intel has announced it will open a wafer fabrication facility in China, a significant milestone in the chip giant's manufacturing history. Initially, Intel will make chipsets - which shuttle data back and forth across the processor to the...

Tags: fabs, chipsets, processors, china

[26 Mar 2007]

Intel 'hacker' conviction quashed

News It probably won't fully sink in until the first time I travel freely into Canada, or fill out a contractor form that asks the question about criminal history, or apply for a Small Business Administration program that was formerly unavailable to me.

Tags: hacker, intel

[05 Mar 2007]

Holes found in Google Desktop

News That means that passwords and banking information stored either in computer files or in web page history could be accessed remotely by the attacker, Allan said. Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and...

Tags: google desktop

[22 Feb 2007]

Intel, AMD fight it out for market share

News The chipmaker had 25.3 per cent of chip shipments in the fourth quarter of 2006, an increase from 23.3 per cent from the year-earlier quarter and the highest number in its history. McCarron said: "Their mobile business in particular has been...

Tags: chips, amd, intel

[31 Jan 2007]

Data-sharing plan 'isn't Big Brother'

News Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell said: "Blair's Britain now has the most intrusive government in our history," while Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of anti-ID cards group No2ID, said the government has such a poor track-record on...

Tags: id cards

[15 Jan 2007]

IT grads top jobless league table

News IT graduates have higher unemployment rates than students in performing arts (6.6 per cent), media studies (8.6 per cent), history (6.8 per cent) and art and design (10.2 per cent). I didn't know anything about programming before starting the...

Tags: hecsu, graduates

[03 Jan 2007]

The Woz takes a trip down memory lane

News Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak took part in a panel discussion on Saturday called 'Apple in the Garage', at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, celebrating the Mac maker's 30th anniversary.

Tags: wozniak, steve wozniak, mac, apple

[06 Nov 2006]

Virgin bans in-flight use of Apple, Dell laptops

News Dell's recall of 4.1 million batteries was the largest in the history of the consumer electronics industry. Virgin Atlantic has banned the in-flight use of most Apple and Dell laptops, following recalls of thousands of batteries by both computer...

Tags: batteries, virgin atlantic, in-flight, virgin

[18 Sep 2006]

Fiorina keeps mum on HP's Dunn

News Fiorina led HP through one of the largest mergers in the history of high tech, the takeover of Compaq Computer, and ended up losing her job there because of the combined company's struggles to keep pace with rivals.

Tags: caroly fiorina, carly fiorina, fiorina, hp

[18 Sep 2006]

$100 laptop: 'Fundamentally flawed'

News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.

Tags: olpc, $100 laptop

[21 Jun 2006]

Google keeps eye on Vista search

News He said: "We just see the history of that company behaving anti-competitively and.not playing fair. It would be great if a lot of companies participated in that [and users could] get any kind of content on any kind of computer in any place you are.

Tags: vista, search, google

[11 May 2006]

Military doctors to get £80m medical IT system

News He said in a statement: "The ability to swiftly check a medical history will aid the clinician's ability to make the best possible choice of treatment for their patients and could, in extreme circumstances, save lives.

Tags: logicacmg, mod

[27 Apr 2006]

Google adds new frills to Desktop search

News Once the Search Across Computers function is enabled, text copies of documents and web history are automatically transferred to the other computer that has Google Desktop installed, said Sundar Pichai, director of product management at Google.

Tags: google desktop search, google

[09 Feb 2006]

Apple under fire for 'harvesting iTunes user-data'

News Because iTunes users typically sign up for the music store with an email address and a credit card number, the account ID number could in theory be linked to that information, as well as a user's purchase history, said Apple expert Kirk McElhearn...

Tags: data, privacy, apple, itunes

[13 Jan 2006]

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