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News Bruce Sinclair, president and CEO of Waverider, is an enthusiastic backer of the technology. With the auction for the UK's broadband radio spectrum due to begin this month, many operators are promoting the wireless local... [10 Oct 2000]
Tescos stocks shelves with more Siemens PCs
News Ian Sinclair, of Tesco's computer division, said: "This is a good value product for our customers. Tescos is extending its sale of computers to five more stores. The UK supermarket launched a pilot scheme in partnership... [03 Aug 1998]
Voice biometrics, war tech and the history of computing
News First up was a look at an exhibition showing how the British PC has evolved over the years, with museum volunteer, Peter Chilvers, providing his thoughts on classics including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. [08 Oct 2008]
US Attorney General issues legal warning to online pharmacies
News Dr Michael Sinclair, a partner at IT law firm, Tarlo Lyons, said the case highlights the difficulties of conducting ecommerce in highly regulated industries. Michigan State Attorney General, Jennifer M. [16 Dec 1999]
AA rejects plan to move call centres to India
News Kevin Sinclair, managing director of AA Insurance, said the company "seriously considered" moving the call centres to India because it would have delivered long-term savings of £24m. The AA is to cut 100 jobs but has... [19 Aug 2005]
Ginger nuts? Or is it just a vicious rumour?
Comment Sir Clive Sinclair will vouch for the fact that alternative modes of transport are far from being a licence to print money, and while Ginger comes with some pretty strong endorsements why should it be any different? [03 Dec 2001]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment My first PC was a Sinclair ZX81, but my first 'main' PC was a VIC20, which took me through four years to my O'levels, before being replaced by a C64 and an AppleII+. Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the... [24 Apr 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News But he added that to lose the collection, which attracts about 5,000 people annually and has Sir Clive Sinclair as a fan, would be unthinkable. The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing... [01 Apr 2008]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
News The company soon received a timely boost from its rivals: Acorn and even the mighty Sinclair were hit by supply problems, and, thanks to some heavy promotion by Boots the Chemist, Dragon 32s were flying off the shelves. [08 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
Comment The company soon received a timely boost from its rivals: Acorn and even the mighty Sinclair were hit by supply problems, and, thanks to some heavy promotion by Boots the Chemist, Dragon 32s were flying off the shelves. [11 Feb 2002]
Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis
News Many of the current crop of games industry employees learnt to create programs by getting creative with the home computers of the 1980s and 1990s - hardware such as the Atari ST and Sinclair Spectrum - so the rise of... [19 Jun 2008]
Those were the days: The Acorn Electron
Comment The history books will show a production line problem in Malaysia meant a small fraction of orders could be fulfilled, consumers further embraced Sinclair and Commodore offerings that Christmas, and so crucially not... [25 Jan 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment A number of 'old skool' commentators in the UK have made that point that to own a Commodore was to support a US goliath against the plucky Brits beavering away at Sinclair Labs. I probably don't deserve to write... [24 Dec 1982]
iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner
News Another CIO, Matthew Sinclair of credit insurance broking services company Marsh, told silicon.com: "Organisationally, we're heading towards migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange, which will take some time. [11 Aug 2008]
Ginger: Marketable myth or monster of misinformation?
Comment After all, whither the Sinclair C5? Within days the information had spread around the net and onto the pages of the UK weekend newspapers. As one of a number of industry heavyweights invited to a top secret demo of... [16 Jan 2001]
