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BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

BT's archive: Pictures from the vault

...ambassador. As a teenager, the editor of ZDNet UK created an experimental Prestel page in 1983 with an animated block graphic of the blessed bird... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins
Acorns land at Bletchley Park

Acorns land at Bletchley Park

...to have been used by Pickfords and Italian travel agents as a Prestel/Viewdata terminal for access to early online systems. Nothing came of Acorn... Read more

25 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

It's 1 am - do you know where your data is?

If you're using a US-owned or hosted cloud service provider, then there's no way of knowing. That's because the US's... Read more

13 July, 2011

BT unveils videoconferencing manager for iOS, Android

...increase productivity and reduce time spent on travel," BT Conferencing chief Jeff Prestel said in a statement. "This mobile app is the first of its... Read more

18 May, 2011

The monarchy and technology through the ages

The British royal family has long taken an interest in high technology, so we review a hitherto hidden part of our country's history Read more

29 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Dead-tree magazine claims The Web Is Dead, again

...There were also different bits of software for various online services including Prestel, CompuServe and AOL. But pretty soon, the world changed so that you... Read more

18 August, 2010

ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims

Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by... Read more

30 July, 1996 by Martin Veitch

The devil, the blue sea

...or of its predecessor, the Post Office. For example, do you remember Prestel? Many people have commented that Prestel looks, with hind-sight, very like... Read more

11 May, 2001 by Guy Kewney

If things didn't change....

...t doing anything new; he'd done it all before with Viewdata (Prestel was a form of Viewdata) two decades ago. That did all end... Read more

8 January, 2001 by Guy Kewney

A Year Ago: E-love, how about it?

...to a number of reports. A sample survey conducted by UK ISP Prestel On-line has found 42 percent of its users had either met... Read more

14 February, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

E-love, how about it?

A sample survey conducted by UK ISP Prestel On-line has found 42 percent of its users had either met... Read more

12 February, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

Five years ago: ISPs unfazed by Prestel's 'fastest' claims

Prestel's claim was made on the back of an independent study by... Read more

30 July, 2001 by Martin Veitch

Hyperlink hyperbole

To today's Netizens, the memory of Prestel is mostly just something their parents might have used, if they'd... Read more

21 June, 2000 by Guy Kewney

IDPixie LLC's partner, and inventor, Mr. Jeffrey Ice's white papers- Part 9

IDPixie LLC's partner, and inventor, Mr. Jeffrey Ice's white papers- Part 9 I, Mr. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari,... Read more

29 January, 2007

The A to Z of security

...after the prosecution of two men - for hacking into British Telecom's Prestel video text system in the mid-80s - foundered under the Forgery and... Read more

14 November, 2006 by Natasha Lomas

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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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...

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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...

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

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Jack Schofield

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

16 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...

17 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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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....

20 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...

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

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

21 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

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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...

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