Archive for August, 2009
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
UNIX: The Enlightenment’s Operating System
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News Website]
In the autumn of 1984 I completed the Diploma in Computer Science at Cambridge University and started looking for my first job in the computing industry.
Cambridge was a good place to be a programmer at the time. Trinity College had built its Science Park on [...]
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Downloading is Not Enough… probably
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
Peer to peer download services are still popular with music-loving kids, it seems. The second annual survey of young people’s music consumption by pressure group UK Music found that three-fifths of the 1,808 18-24 year olds who took part said they used p2p services, [...]
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Oiling the Digital Society
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News Website. And Bud Smith at Google Voice Daily mentions it in his round up of GV news.]
The announcement that Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt is standing down from the Apple board hardly came as a surprise.
Google’s Android is already powering smartphones that offer an [...]
