Spotify: let the music begin
Blog Much of what gets blogged here at ZDNet.co.uk is primarily of relevance to the business community. But I make no apology for the fact that this post is primarily about entertainment. If you’ve... [17 Jun 2009]
Dialogue Box 6.8: Top tech trumps 
Video What are likely to be the most important tech stories over the next few months? Rupert and Charles discuss the contenders over a game of (special) cards [15 Jun 2009]
Grown Up Digital
Review Businesses, educational institutions, parents and political leaders need to adapt to the technology-savvy Net Generation, says Don Tapscott. [12 Jun 2009]
Dialogue Box 6.7: Testing solid-state disks
Video SSDs are now available with capacities of up to 256GB, but prices remain high enough to make them uneconomic in the datacentre for the foreseeable future. Rupert and Charles outline the solid state of play [08 Jun 2009]
Dialogue Box 6.6: A first look at Moblin
Video Those seeking to run Linux on their netbook have a new option: Moblin. Rupert and Charles take the beta for a spin and compare it to Ubuntu's netbook remix [01 Jun 2009]
- Excellent Information - J.A. Watson
Dialogue Box 6.5: Linux vs Windows boot-off
Video Microsoft promised quicker boot times with Windows 7, while Linux has always been pretty nippy out of the traps. So which is fastest? Dialogue Box puts Ubuntu 9.04 up against Redmond's latest and wields the stopwatch [26 May 2009]
The Google Way
Review This book claims that Google has 'revolutionised management', but largely fails to ask searching questions about the sources of the 11-year-old company's success. [19 May 2009]
Dialogue Box 6.4: Away day at Microsoft Research
Video Ever wondered what goes on inside Microsoft's Cambridge research lab? Dialogue Box went along to a recent open day, to discover what 'Enabling Innovation Through Research' means in practice [18 May 2009]
Don't know your dongle from your cookie?
Blog You are not alone. A company called the Gadget Helpline has done a survey of more than 5,000 people and found that many of us find tech words confusing. Of course I don't mean us. Clearly... [01 May 2009]
Dialogue Box 6.1: Satellites, the sun and IT
Video There's a lot of hardware orbiting our planet, generating ever-increasing space debris. Further afield, the sun is currently in a quiet phase, but is unlikely to stay that way. Rupert and Charles ponder the implications [27 Apr 2009]
- More on geomagnetic storms - Charles McLellan
An Easter Egg selection 
Photo It's Easter, so it's time for goodies that programmers have secreted in their software. Here's a few of our favourites [09 Apr 2009]
Linux TV adverts FAIL
Blog Oh dear. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and when the Linux Foundation announced a contest to produce a TV advert for Linux they meant well. It's just a shame the results don't end... [09 Apr 2009]
Extreme OpenStreetMap
Blog Contributors to the OpenStreetMap project use GPS receivers to log their travels along highways, byways and any tracks they can find. However, one contributor from Japan decided to take things one... [09 Apr 2009]
Hungarian Microsoft Billionaire Space Tourist Lands Safely
Blog Second time is lucky too it seems. Hungarian ex-Microsoft Billionaire Charles Simonyi has landed safely after his second space-tourist mission. I am living in Budapest for a while and so taking... [08 Apr 2009]
Burning the Ships
Review Companies' IP strategies will have to evolve along with technology. This book is a chance to learn from Microsoft's version of that evolution. [03 Apr 2009]
Jaunty Jackalope's April First jape
Blog What a great day for a calendar bug! Testers of Jaunty Jackalope, the 9.04 'netbook friendly' version of Ubuntu, have found a problem that puts all users of the popular open source operating... [01 Apr 2009]
The Public Domain
Review In this book, law professor James Boyle sets out to clarify the issues surrounding intellectual property and the public domain. [20 Mar 2009]
London's Olympic Park begins to take shape
Photo Techies and construction crews are working around the clock to transform a muddy site in the borough of Newham into an Olympics venue fit for the 21st century [19 Mar 2009]
Digital personality types - what's yours?
Blog I’ve got a lot of time for psychologists. And so do PR and marketing types. But for different reasons. I like them because at their best they can fix broken people very well. PRs and marketeers... [17 Mar 2009]
Microsoft 2.0
Review In this solidly researched and footnoted book, ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reviews the key people, products and principles that will drive Microsoft's future. [06 Mar 2009]
Dialogue Box 5.8: Return of the Axis of Awesome
Video What do a netbook, an ultraportable, a smartphone, a pico projector and a weird videophone have in common? All have been examined by Dialogue Box and consigned to their places on the Axis Of Awesome [16 Feb 2009]
Lucky Jim
Blog We were diverted yesterday by Gizmodo's report (via TechFlash) on ex-Vista-honcho Jim Allchin's solo album, Enigma. Of course it's all too easy to scoff at the former Microsoftie's AOR... [10 Feb 2009]
Dialogue Box 5.7: A projector in the hand
Video Take a DLP chip and combine it with a low-power LED lamp and you have a projection engine that can run off battery power and fit in a smartphone-sized case. Dialogue Box takes a peek at the new world of pico projectors [09 Feb 2009]
Dialogue Box 5.6: When power goes bad
Video What happens when a power surge delivers more volts and amps than your electrical equipment can handle? Dialogue Box pushes a capacitor to the limit — and beyond — to find out [02 Feb 2009]
At last - Antikythera reborn!
Blog Even though we're fans of the 2000-year old precision astronomical device known as the Antikythera mechanism, reports that it had been rebuilt slipped past us earlier in December. The mechanism... [30 Dec 2008]
A look back at 2008 in pictures
Photo ZDNet UK presents a photographic look back at a year that saw colliding atoms, cryogenics, Google in Ancient Rome and a whole lot more [30 Dec 2008]
Are you staying ‘cyber-dependent’ this yuletide?
Blog Just imagine it – three whole days and nights without email, phone, SMS, Twitter, Instant Messenger, BlackBerry or even TV coverage. It was back in May of this year that I first blogged on the... [23 Dec 2008]
Best video from 2008
Roundup Tech titans from both sides of the open/closed divide? The biggest science experiment in history? Scary robot spin-offs from The Lord of The Rings? ZDNet UK presents the best of its 2008 video content [22 Dec 2008]
Festive nuclear bunker news...
Blog What's so Christmassy about a nuclear bunker? Ask the Richter Scales, or BastionHost of Canada... It could be I'm developing the bunker mentality, but nuclear bunkers are everywhere. Even a... [22 Dec 2008]
Dialogue Box 5.4: Touchscreens feel our pain
Video Apple's competitors are trying to sprinkle some iPhone magic on their smartphones, with frankly mixed results. Rupert and Charles examine four contenders using the 'SwearMark' test [15 Dec 2008]
