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Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo It's a video laser disc player and includes film classics such as Star Wars, Easy Rider and Goldfinger. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was... [29 Sep 2009]
Mozilla developers set up camp on the cloud
News The Mozilla Foundation's Developer Tools Lab, formed in October, has released its first prototype project - a web-based, collaborative code-editing framework named Bespin, after the planet where Cloud City is located in the... [17 Feb 2009]
Photos: Xmas presents for the techie who has everything
Photo Here's a festive gift that brings both Star Wars and technology together in a beautiful fusion - a Star Wars-themed USB stick. Techies and Star... [04 Dec 2008]
Photos: Top 10 Xmas presents for the tech team
Photo Star Wars is a perennial Christmas film favourite so a real life (almost) light sabre would be appropriate. With the festive season looming, here are silicon.com's pick of the presents you might want to... [01 Dec 2008]
Five virtual alternatives to meetings
Comment Videoconferencing has been with us, in various forms, for many years but the Star Wars-like holographic capabilities of the technology are now being touted by mainstream vendors such as Cisco. Andy McCue... [19 Nov 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.08
Round-Up Leia had in Star Wars, and that was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… The Round-Up couldn't let this week go by without a nod to one of the most fascinating victories ever to grace the world stage. [07 Nov 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment Not least because it would be nice to be able to carry a spare in case we run out of juice in the middle of watching Lego Star Wars videos on YouTube. But that doesn't mean there aren't a few things for... [14 Jul 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo And talking of CES, we brought together some of the stars from this year's consumer tech extravaganza including Microsoft's Surface technology and this projector resembling Star Wars' R2D2. A video was... [30 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up However, just as the theme from Jaws - providing a neat bit of foreshadowing - gave way to the Star Wars score, the fireworks stopped abruptly. In January 2007, Microsoft underwhelmed the world with the... [04 Jan 2008]
Left-handed stormtroopers fight for ecommerce site
Case Study An ecommerce website specialising in products for the left-handed has enlisted Star Wars stormtroopers as part of its sales arsenal. For example, with the launch of the Star... [21 Nov 2006]
Santa worm makes merry hell with IM
News Past tricks have included offers of movie clips to the latest release of Star Wars that instead led to an infected computer. A Santa Claus worm is attempting to trick AOL, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo!... [21 Dec 2005]
Free speech at risk online, says study
News One case described involved a man who in 1997 launched a personal website at Tatooine.com, named for the fictional planet in the first Star Wars film. He said he never posted any Star... [06 Dec 2005]
Opinion: Microsoft vs Linux - the Empire strikes back?
Comment Since then we've had a new Star Wars movie and a total cost of ownership argument from Gartner has proved compelling enough for Lord Vader to decide that when it comes to provisioning something as large... [23 Nov 2005]
CIO Jury: "Love" your top IT staff or lose them
News Researchers claimed last week that escalating IT "talent wars" are forcing employers to become more creative with staff retention policies, offering perks such as additional holidays and professional training to stop... [31 Oct 2005]
China's long road to copyright
Comment In May 2005, four years after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and embraced its stringent rules on intellectual property (IP) rights, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith opened in... [19 Sep 2005]
