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Acorn co-founder talks early computers

Acorn co-founder Andy Hopper told silicon.com that he believes the BBC Micro - with its easy to grasp Basic programming language - offered an experience that is missing today. Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of...

Tags: Co-founder, British Broadcasting Corp., Computer, Andy Hopper, Productivity, BBC Micro, ARM, early computers, Nick Heath silicon.com

News items 2009-10-12

BBC Micro (Gallery: The evolution of the PC)

BBC Micro (Gallery: The evolution of the PC)The BBC Micro has a picture of a Dragon 32 on it. [nt][nt]Where are the home PCs?It's a pretty incomplete gallery that includes no Apple II, no Atari 400/800, no Commodore 64, no TRS-80.And the TRS Model 100 was surely deserves a...

Tags: Desktops, BBC Micro, British Broadcasting Corp., Gallery, PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Additional Resources

Micro-USB to be universal EU phone charger

In a brave move, the vast majority of mobile phone manufacturers in Europe have signed an agreement which sees future mobile phones across a variety of brands and models all sharing the same charger port - the micro-USB. This means every phone you will find in Europe, starting next year...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Agreement, European Union, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Microsoft Joins the Great Tech Carbon Telethon

Today is Red Nose Day in the UK, a day when you are supposed to do something 'funny for money'. People in offices all over the UK will don a plastic red nose and raise money to provide financial relief for Africa. Tonight the BBC will run a telethon and...

Tags: Baseline, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Pledge, Microsoft Corp., James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Getting on the wavelength

There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...

Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safe

Note: Replaced still from Hawking on Star Trek with this clip -- so much fun Since the geniuses at CERN have failed to assuage amped-up if entirely unfounded fears that the Large Hadron Collider is actually a doomsday machine, they have reached up to the mountain to...

Tags: Black Hole, LHC, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one

Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting

Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting*New* news of *new* shocking meetings...... at http://www.groklaw.net/ Groklaw.LOL...Anyone that uses Groklaw as a source for any kind of information should probably know that Groklaw is the gutter tabloid of the internet.There is absolutely nothing unbiased about that sorry part of the internet.Seriously, someone thought...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OOXML, Details Emerge, Groklaw

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart; MySpace kills startup; Are "events" sites dead?; Facebook users force HSBC into a U-turn

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart. Yahoo is currently seeking feedback from students on a new social network called "Kickstart" which aims to connect college students...

Tags: Social Networking, Job, Facebook, Network, Yahoo! Inc., MySpace, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-08-31

Does open source make business decisions political?

Does open source make business decisions political?ThisFirst off we talking about a 'public' service here. The BBC is funded by public money political and is being accused of not fulfilling its charter for equal access for all political. Whilst the BBC needs to get 'best value' they must service the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Government, Microsoft Corp., British Broadcasting Corp., incumbent, business decision, incompatibility

Discussion threads 2007-07-16

Gorbachev to Gates: Show mercy for pirate

Gorbachev to Gates: Show mercy for pirateTrust a Russian court to be fair?Look, I am against software piracy in a very big way but I think this case needs to be looked at closely by Gates and MS and if needed they need to step up and ask the courts...

Tags: Linux, Tablets, Mr Gates, Microsoft Corp., Gorbachev, piracy, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-02-05

ElectrEm 0.6c (Mac)

ElectrEm is an open source emulator of the Acorn Electron, a microcomputer related to the BBC Micro that was once quite popular in the United Kingdom. The emulator strives for cycle accuracy using an event based model and is written in C++ using the SDL library. The OS X...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Emulator, Thomas Harte, ElectrEm

Software downloads 2007-01-18

Soon, children will get one laptop each

After much ado, the One Laptop per Child project has announced that its $150 laptops in the hands of people in developing countries by July 2007, reports the BBC. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand are the first countries slated to receive the brightly colored laptops, now...

Tags: laptop computer, DigitalDivide, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Is Windows still relevant?

Is Windows still relevant?It would be easier to take you seriously...if you knew the difference between an adjective and an adverb.I was just wondering . . .who let him out his playpen again . . .Is Windows still relevant?[b]Is Windows still relevant?[/b]Haha. What planet are you from?Maybe if you...

Tags: Construction, Operating systems, UNIX, LinuxGeek, Microsoft Corp., IS Windows, Win-doze, window, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Picking the energy of crowds

When we walk, we produce energy which disappears into the ground. Would it be possible to harvest this wasted energy? According to Discovery News, an architectural firm in the UK wants to use crowds as a source of renewable energy. So far, the company is working on various projects with...

Tags: Claire

Blog posts 2006-06-28

BBC stories used as bait for IE exploit

BBC stories used as bait for IE exploitNOW would be a good time...for Microsoft to release a patch. The malicious hackers are using social-engineering tactics here. They're getting smart. Unless Microsoft releases an out-of-cycle patch, there will most likely be successful attacks between now and April 11.If anyone doubts that,...

Tags: Web browsers, Patches, WTF, British Broadcasting Corp., hacker, IE Flaws, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

World's first biogas train fueled by cows

The world's first train to run on biogas, a renewable energy source made up of organic waste from cows, has been inaugurated in Sweden according to AFP and BBC News. This train will make a daily trip between Linköping, just south of Stockholm, and Västervik, 80 kilometers away on the...

Tags: train, bioga, Svensk Biogas

Blog posts 2005-10-27

Ballmer gives IT pros a bear hug

Ballmer gives IT pros a bear hugHow appropriate.. getting hugged by a dangerous predator.Yep.. Microsoft.. Ballmer .. it all fits.Which is better managed?Linux can easily be managed by the masses. The whole idea is to have one unique kernel and to use the tools accross many boxes. Some...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, amoeba, Linux, server, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2005-06-06

EU expects deal with Microsoft in May

EU expects deal with Microsoft in MayPoint of clarificationSo this commission isn't a court from what I understand, they can lay penaties etc but can't really enforce them, so lets say they do the 5% global sales per day thing ouch is there a couter-balance to this legally with the...

Tags: Sales force management, Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., commission, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-05-23

ETech summary, day 3

This morning's opening keynote presenter was Larry Lessig, a natural at a conference about remixing. Larry gives an amazing presentation--very entertaining and informative. Paula Le Dieu, Cluster Head for Content Management Culture with BBC's central New Media department, gave a presentation on the BBC's efforts to embrace massive media, a...

Tags: JotSpot

Blog posts 2005-03-17