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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Yes, Autonomy and ARM continue to fight the good fight, along with a host of other high-tech start-ups, but when will the UK produce a regular, bonafide mega-tech behemoth? Where to... [06 Nov 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They are more plentiful among self-employed professionals, portfolio workers, freelance entrepreneurs, forward-thinking start-ups, self-organising online communities and skilled people overseas with... [13 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As well as co-founding Skype - and selling it on yet keeping hold of the P2P technology which underpins the service - Zennström has a raft of other start-ups to his name. Niklas Zennström is best known... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper says that today's technology start-ups need to be savvy to survive (Image credit: University of Cambridge) But he is concerned that research into technologies is being stifled in the UK,... [07 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving with Dolphins exhibition last month. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to... [02 Oct 2009]
Shai Agassi
AS Profile Like fellow Agenda Setter Elon Musk, Shai Agassi has a history of notable achievements in tech - in Agassi's case, founding start-ups and working his way up the ranks of SAP - but he got the panel's nod... [30 Sep 2009]
Michael A Cusumano
AS Profile But, like many Agenda Setters before him, Cusumano deals in practice as well as theory: he's provided advice to a range of technology start-ups, acts as a director for others and has consulted for many... [30 Sep 2009]
Elon Musk
AS Profile Musk has a string of successful start-ups behind him - the first of which, a content publishing business called Zip2, he created at 24 and later sold for more than $300m. Proving great technology ideas... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo The brightest new companies in the UK's Silicon Valley opened their doors yesterday to showcase new technologies. Fledgling tech businesses from Cambridge were showing off everything from avatars with virtual emotions to plugs that can... [24 Sep 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News Chiefly, the book exists to encourage people to take the plunge, but it's also got practical advice about doing so, some warnings about unpleasant possible side effects, and even 10 related start-ups... [21 Sep 2009]
Naked CIO: Beware the mobile app frenzy
Comment Do research on your partners or developers and ensure that they have a track record for developing that goes beyond just mobile applications as there are a lot of unstable start ups right now in the space. [21 Sep 2009]
The Growing Adoption of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise
White Paper Through 2010, the enterprise Web 2.0 product environment will experience considerable flux with continued product innovation and new entrants, including start-ups, large vendors, and traditional... [09 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment The company also realises, as do most online start-ups, that if you open up your processes - allowing your users and other outside collaborators to become co-creators of your products and services - you... [03 Sep 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News Other high-tech companies, including IBM, Intel, and several start-ups, are also ramping up to develop sensors and other technology that alert power companies and their customers about energy usage in an... [19 Aug 2009]
Mozilla unveils what it has in mind for Firefox 4.0
News Mozilla has released mock-ups that show how Firefox 4.0 conceivably might look, and two words spring to mind: Google Chrome. Last week, Mozilla showed some mock-ups for the nearer-term Firefox 3.7 that... [28 Jul 2009]
