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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two years. The Colossus was the world's first programmable electronic computer and was built to crack the... [05 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business, said the aim of the trials is to get feedback from customers on how they want to use the service and what's possible in real-world conditions. BT is offering a free taste of... [05 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment The Wikipedia vision is one of "a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge". He dedicates a big part of it to Wikipedia - which he dubs "the great experiment" - talking... [05 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Small niche producers of world-beating software is what the UK needs, along with genuine support to export that software to the rest of the world, he added. Similarly Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at... [03 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment So for years, Mac users laboured with single-button mice in a contextual-click world. The Apple mouse has long been the weak link in its hardware set-ups. Seb Janacek asks: Can the new Magic Mouse change all that? [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of the smartphone world: one in every two sold today carries the Symbian OS. While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon be... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Alexander Dreiling, programme manager with SAP, said: "In the old world you would have to call a meeting where they would generate those models. Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses... [02 Nov 2009]
Escaping PCI purgatory. Compliance roadblocks and stories of real-world successes
White Paper By now, any companies driving high volumes of credit card transactions that are not compliant with the payment card industry (PCI) data security standards (DSS) faces steep penalties. This white paper deals with the PCI DSS compliance... [02 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment What started back in 2006 as a niche product aimed at children in the developing world, have quickly become the latest must-have piece of hardware - with many people considering them not as a second machine, but indeed... [02 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up It's almost that time of year when nameless horrors not of this world crawl shrieking into the light, creating terror and provoking instant madness in all that see their horrible, bloated faces. No, the Round-Up doesn't... [30 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Perhaps the most critical, given (5) and (6), is the reduction of latency (7) as a prime factor in a world of non-linearity, chaos and strange attractors. Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to... [29 Oct 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment Result: A world of pain. silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs this Digital Dilemma… It's the mother of digital conundrums: you log into your Facebook account and there's a friend request from a work colleague... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can also view pictures and videos from around the world, as well as following news from other sectors such as technology, sport and entertainment. The Thomson Reuters app helps users keep up to date with breaking... [27 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment With e-books, the challenge faced by lawmakers throughout the world to ensure copyright and intellectual property legislation keeps pace with the rate of technological change will only grow. The literary industry must... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet According to ABI, an entirely new mass market for AR has opened up in the mobile world, thanks to the increasing availability of technology such as video cameras, GPS, compasses, and accelerometers on smartphones. [27 Oct 2009]
