alan sugar articles, videos, photos and opinions

Sort by Relevance | Date | Popularity

...Stop throwing your computing heritage away - ignore Alan Sugar,' Google boss tells UK

...the importance of engineering, Schmidt clashed with the UK's own Lord Alan Sugar who, in a recent series of business talent show The Apprentice... Read more

28 August, 2011 by Jo Best

Alan Sugar joins YouView internet TV project

...Lord Alan Sugar has joined YouView as the new non-executive chairman of the... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Rich Trenholm

Lord Sugar joins YouView IPTV platform

...bring YouView project to market... IPTV joint venture YouView has unveiled Lord Alan Sugar as its new non-executive chairman, with immediate effect. Lord Sugar... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Lord Sugar trial tweet was censored by court

Amstrad and Viglen founder Alan Sugar was ordered by a judge to take down a Twitter message... Read more

27 May, 2011

The ZX Spectrum: Birthday memories

...after Sinclair went bust and I and the Speccy were purchased by Alan Sugar. That's another story: for now, to mark the original birth... Read more

23 April, 2012

Happy Birthday, Sinclair QL - 28 years today

...After a couple of Spectrum revamps, Sinclair Research crumbled into dust leaving Alan Sugar to hoover up the brand (and yours truly). These days, the... Read more

12 January, 2012

Quotes of the year: From Steve Jobs' impact to why architects are the Britneys of IT

...can't understand why it's taking so long to fix" - Sir Alan Sugar, entrepreneur and TV personality, venting his anger at the BlackBerry outage... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

BlackBerry outage: Service now returning, says RIM

...The ongoing outage provoked anger among BlackBerry users online yesterday. British entrepreneur Alan Sugar tweeted: "In all my years in IT biz, I have never... Read more

13 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Who do we invite to the UK's tech dinner with Obama?

...would be invited to a similar dinner in the UK. Perhaps Lord Alan Sugar (Amstrad) and Uncle (now Sir) Clive Sinclair, plus venture capitalist Hermann... Read more

18 February, 2011
100ee 1.1

100ee 1.1

...compared to those of business mogul and Apprentice TV show chairman, Sir Alan Sugar. Blending indispensable advice and short bursts of inspiration with motivational quotes... Read more

19 October, 2011

Freezers, hot water and hard work: Could you handle IT in Antarctica?

...the same PCs. We use primarily Viglen PCs - not so we support Alan Sugar but so that if somebody wants to maintain or look after... Read more

16 August, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
Pocket Sugar 1.0

Pocket Sugar 1.0

...Sugar!The number one app for your favourite sound clips from Lord Alan Sugar from the popular TV show the apprentice.Over 50 of his... Read more

5 February, 2011
ipprentice 1.0

ipprentice 1.0

...sound board with great additional features. Choose from many great quotes from Alan Sugar, play the theme or add from a selection of wallpapers to... Read more

3 February, 2011
<endeca_term>Alan Sugar</endeca_term> and the secrets of the universe

Alan Sugar and the secrets of the universe

...world's slowest — Amstrad's new CPC 464 clocked in at £300. Alan Sugar, then as now Amstrad's ferociously populist head and the man... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Leader

Amstrad still losing money on the e-m@iler

...one. This means that Amstrad never came close to achieving company chairman Alan Sugar's target of seeing "1 million e-m@ilers installed in... Read more

25 September, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Get ZDNet UK's daily newsletter

Enter your email address to sign up

ZDNet UK Live

Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

5 hours ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
dede0202

Hello ALL USERS OF THE PIRATE BAY I WOULD PUT AN EXPLANATION ON PIRACY Story Idea ILLIGALE AND SHARING THOSE THAT NET Dissent NOT WELL BUT TO CA...

13 hours ago by dede0202 on The Pirate Bay infringes copyright, High Court decides
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

14 hours ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

20 hours ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Roberto_Store

Now On Sale, Unlocked iPhone 4S / Galaxy Note In Factory Box. Roberto-Techie(UK) ”Now on Sales” Smartphone, Android,Tablets,Gadget &...

24 hours ago by Roberto_Store on Samsung Galaxy S III lined up for sale
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

1 day ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

1 day ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

1 day ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything
Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

2 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

2 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

2 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
songmaster

SHleG: Do you remember building a clockwork scorpion kit (I'm pretty sure I have a photo of it somewhere) — I think it was called something like...

2 days ago by songmaster on Software with everything
Chris Wortman

Good I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...

2 days ago by Chris Wortman via Facebook on Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release
PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

2 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Leslie Satenstein

Mozilla has threatened to stop supporting Linux. I guess that UBUNTU is going with another browser. I indicated that if Mozilla stops supporting...

2 days ago by Leslie Satenstein via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
Andy Bolstridge

Much as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...

2 days ago by Andy Bolstridge via Facebook on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
craigsc

You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...

3 days ago by craigsc on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves
Moley

How does this impact on dual or multi booting? Seems to me to more or less prohibit this, from Windows 8 anyway. Will Grub 2 recognise Windows 8,...

3 days ago by Moley on Windows 8 start-up speed forces USB boot workaround