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Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

...bit you can do to clear out the cobwebs and get your computer running up to speed again, both on the hardware and the software... Read more

21 April, 2012 by Craig Simms
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...friend Hermann Hauser. The company was actually called CPU Ltd, with Acorn Computer Ltd the trading name for its PC business — CPU also had a... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
A tour of the UK's Vintage <endeca_term>Computer</endeca_term> Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...be a media sponsor for The National Museum of Computing's Vintage Computer Festival, the first of its kind to be held in the UK... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Inside Japan's Top500 K <endeca_term>Computer</endeca_term>

Inside Japan's Top500 K Computer

...The design of the six-dimensional mesh/torus topology in the K computer means there are many communication routes between neighbouring CPUs. This enables the... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Staff

Photos: The solar-powered internet cafés connecting rural Africa

Between the shipment of the two Zambian ZubaBoxes, Computer Aid International provided a cybercafé for Computers for Schools Kenya, located in... Read more

5 July, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
Exhibition charts the history of computing

Exhibition charts the history of computing

...Robert Belleville built this computer in 1980 based around an Intel 8080 microprocessor. The design was inspired... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Scott Ard
LEO <endeca_term>computer</endeca_term> marks 60th anniversary

LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

...The first ever business computer, LEO I, operated by British tea-shop company J Lyons, ran its... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Photos: The world's first business computer turns 60

...computing muscle couldn't begin to compete with the power of modern computers. Comparing processing speed alone, Leo I would be some 2,000 times... Read more

11 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Photos: Rebirth of trailblazing Edsac computer

...constructed at Cambridge University. In a statement, David Hartley, chairman of the Computer Conservation Society and a former president of the BCS, explained why Edsac... Read more

14 January, 2011 by Nick Heath

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

...Photo: Amadeus Capital Partners HERMANN HAUSER Co-founder of Acorn Computers and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners What are your memories of... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath
The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

The outer limits of vintage tech uncovered

...would have been possible to compose an entertaining photostory about the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park without including a single shot of a computer... Read more

25 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Computer vision: Cheat Sheet

...computer vision utilised to give a robot the ability to drive itself along... Read more

6 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Your brain vs technology: How our wired world is changing the way we think

...a little worried that we're too quick to assume that a computer database is a substitute for personal memory, whereas I think they're... Read more

10 November, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

NHS trust drops out of computer records scheme

...system. Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has decided it no longer wants Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to implement the Lorenzo electronic patient record system. The... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Nick Heath
London's Science Museum links tech history

London's Science Museum links tech history

...A replica of the Difference Engine No 2 also exists in the Computer History Museum in California. A project to create the full Analytical Engine... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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yeah! all we want free software

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