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 [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Games san frontieres
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
Back in February early adopters of the Spotify music-streaming service found that they could no longer listen to every song in the catalogue. The popular startup had been forced to limit access some songs and artists by country because the licensing deals struck with the record [...]
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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 [...]
