Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Open computing

[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
In the far off past when I was a professional programmer writing software for money I relied on a variety of tools to fix the inevitable errors in my work. These tools would look at my thousands of lines of code and check that I [...]

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Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Home is where the hard drive is

[Also on the BBC News website, as usual]
One of the more interesting announcements made at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was that BT Vision, the on-demand TV-over-broadband service, will be available on the Xbox 360 later this year.
It was one of several media-related announcements from Microsoft, including  deals with both MGM and  [...]

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