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Telecoms 'dominated innovation' in 2003

...Thursday. According to a group of the telco's top technologists and futurologists, the areas of mobile working using Wi-Fi, broadband, and IP networking... Read more

18 December, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Friday 18/01/2002 Talking of futurologists, your correspondent with the crystal balls predicts it must be about time... Read more

31 January, 2002

2000 -- Not the new millennium

...the very pinnacle of technology in the service of mankind. Starry-eyed futurologists predicted great things: We'd be floating around on jetpacks, money, illness... Read more

8 January, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

E-books are back

...again. Not so long ago, the wail of the overpaid conference circuit futurologists was that books were doomed. Sooner or later there would be no... Read more

25 May, 2000 by Tony Westbrook

CeBIT: Belt up for the 21st Century

Futurologists have been talking about computers you can wear for years, now at... Read more

18 March, 1999 by Chiyo Robertson

'Digital bubbles' and virtual reality - our world in five years

BT futurologists makes bold predictions... Social networking will move from the computer to the... Read more

26 June, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

Gestural interfaces for futuristic applications need standards

...be agreed upon if we are to go forward in this space. Futurologists may suggest that everything will be so intuitive that we won’t... Read more

26 August, 2008

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...of sci-fi where the characters exist only to press buttons. As futurologists tend to be employed by companies that make gadgets or sell services... Read more

27 May, 2005

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...of sci-fi where the characters exist only to press buttons. As futurologists tend to be employed by companies that make gadgets or sell services... Read more

27 May, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Friday 18/01/2002 Talking of futurologists, your correspondent with the crystal balls predicts it must be about time... Read more

31 January, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...wrong! Carbon-based life forms, your attention please. Science fiction writers and futurologists have long predicted the ascendancy of silicon as the element of choice... Read more

18 September, 2001

2000 Roundup: Weird and wonderful

As you've kept up with our tech news over the last year you may have noticed that while much of it deserved serious intellectual reflection there were plenty of stories that were just... plain odd Read more

30 December, 2000 by Rachel Munro

2000 Roundups: The year that was

...access? COMMENT Not the new millennium Once upon a time, starry-eyed futurologists predicted we'd be floating around on jetpacks in the year 2000... Read more

28 December, 2000 by ZDNet UK

News Burst: The Net will make us kinder - BT

...cook a meal for you because it is too fattening, according to futurologists at BT. The scenario is just one of the predictions for life... Read more

17 November, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Veitch Speaks: Let's stay together in 1999

...awful words that people who call themselves other God-awful things like futurologists and technical evangelists like to torture us with. It started out meaning... Read more

9 January, 1999 by Martin Veitch

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

4 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

6 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

8 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

9 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

10 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

13 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

13 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

15 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

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....

15 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

17 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

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

17 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

17 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

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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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

23 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

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

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

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

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry