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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Callum Sinclair is an associate in the intellectual property and technology group at law firm DLA Piper. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. The internet, as the daddy of... [27 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The sale includes Sinclair computers such as the ZX81 machine and a ZX Spectrum 48K extension shown here. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of classic... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo Sinclair computers were leaders in personal computing in the 1970s and 1980s and this ZX81 is from 1981. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated... [29 Sep 2009]
College Uses Application Virtualization to Deliver Course Software Easily, Inexpensively
White Paper Sinclair Community College of Dayton, Ohio, is one of the largest community colleges in the United States, with approximately 24,000 students. Sinclair wanted to find an efficient, cost-effective way of... [30 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.05.09
Round-Up No, neither does the Round-Up, but it does recall things like the Sinclair ZX81, the BBC Micro, the Dragon 32, and the first Apple Mac. These days everyone is talking about Generation Y and the importance of these callow... [08 May 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo British company Sinclair Research introduced low cost personal computing to the world with the ZX series of machines. The Sinclair ZX81 cost just £69 on release in 1981 and was a follow-up to the... [07 May 2009]
Caption Competition: Snow way!
Photo The winning caption, from reader Andy Sinclair was "I used to be 6 foot tall before they opened that data centre down the road. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: LewisImagebank [06 Feb 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News While at Bletchley Park, silicon.com also checked out some classic British PCs from years gone by, revisiting golden oldies including the BBC Micro and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The past year has seen some memorable footage... [12 Dec 2008]
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]
Chrome future, vintage PCs and credit crunch IT
News From the rubber-keyed Sinclair ZX Spectrum to the chunky Commodore PET with its delightfully dated styling, it's a walk down memory lane guaranteed to warm the cockles of every techie's heart. But there was also a... [03 Oct 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo Sinclair ZX81 At the same time as the BBC Microcomputer's debut, along came the Sinclair ZX81, which could be hooked up to a TV set with programmes and games loaded using an audio cassette recorder.... [03 Sep 2008]
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]
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]
Matthew Sinclair
CIO Profile Matthew Sinclair is European CIO for global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh where he champions the automation and transformation of the insurance value chain through electronic trading and settlement. [11 Jun 2008]
Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...
News It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the most popular first home computer by silicon.com readers. Check out where your favourite golden oldies came in the running. [28 Apr 2008]
