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Remembering Jack Tramiel, father of the Commodore 64

...aged 83, was a remarkable man, especially in the context of the computer industry. Those of us who reported it in the 1980s were used... Read more

12 April, 2012

ZDNet UK's National Museum of Computing awayday

...An outstanding TNMOC exhibit from the early days of the UK computer industry is the Elliott 803, a relatively affordable and compact (and therefore... Read more

27 April, 2012 by Charles McLellan
Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...together into a product... We're the only people left in the computer industry [who] do that. And we're really the only people in... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings

Something old, something new

...innovation has disappeared, just as first netbooks and then tablets shook the computer industry the phone world is waiting for is a new form factor... Read more

15 January, 2012
Pioneer Goetz rebuts software patent critics

Pioneer Goetz rebuts software patent critics

...a stored computer program as part of the preferred implementation disclosure. The computer industry is shown as one of those 17 industries and the software... Read more

17 December, 2011 by Marty Goetz

Inside LEO, the first business computer

The Lyons Electronic Office, which turns 60 on Thursday, has some surprisingly modern design features, due in large part to the antique technology from which it was built Read more

17 November, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

The Weekly Round-Up: Daredevils with mobile phones, and naughty techies

...9.8 per cent of people working in the computer industry are looking for casual sex, adding: "Surprise! Nerds are sexy". And... Read more

11 November, 2011 by The Round-Up
MIME creator: Developers face patent trap

MIME creator: Developers face patent trap

Mimecast chief scientist Nathaniel Borenstein says the US patent system is broken, putting a chilling effect on developers who struggle to decide whether to spend money on lawyers to defend their innovations Read more

6 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Oracle's cloud swallows RightNow for $1.5bn

...computing. Its CEO Larry Ellison famously said of cloud in 2008: "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women... Read more

24 October, 2011 by Jo Best

Happy 30th birthday, IBM PC (and clicky keyboard)

...bit of office equipment on hundreds of thousands of desks. The personal computer industry had been built mainly by hobbyists and enthusiasts, and many early... Read more

12 August, 2011

FBI and DoJ seize servers in scareware crackdown

...a statement. "We will continue to work with the public and the computer industry to fortify our cyber-defences." At the time of writing, the... Read more

23 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

HP to announce free-cooled datacentre Pod in June

...launch, HP said it wanted to be "the Henry Ford of the computer industry". ZDNet UK spoke to a potential HP customer at the event... Read more

5 May, 2011

Remembering Maurice Wilkes, pioneer of UK computing

...shop company, contributed to the cost of EDSAC's construction. The world computer industry was soon based on what we called "von Neumann machines" while... Read more

2 December, 2010

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

From 3D chips and carbon-based transistors, to photonics and memristors... The computer industry is not known for standing still. Moore's Law, coined by... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
HP debuts Pod datacentre factory

HP debuts Pod datacentre factory

...showing the world it wants "to be the Henry Ford of the computer industry". Screenshot: HP Read more

8 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

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