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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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Bing or Bust
I wrote this last week and forgot to post it here – it’s on the BBC News site and I’ll add it here when I get home:
Will Bing boom or be a big bust?
While sales of hardware may be suffering greatly it seems that the general economic gloom has not yet diminished the ambitions of [...]
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Worming our way out of trouble
[As ever, this is on the BBC News website for your delectation and delight]
The Conficker worm will be active again on April 1st, according to an analysis of its most recent variant, Conficker.C, by the net security firm CA.
This malicious piece of software, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, spreads among computers running most [...]
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
The value of Chrome…
I’m writing a piece for Ariel, the BBC’s in-house newspaper, about Google Chrome, so I did some searching and was surprised just how many entries about the browser Google managed to find and how many of them were about the browser rather than the metal: if you search for ‘chrome’ on Google then the top [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Closing the Gates after Bill
[This is my BBC column from Monday - I forgot to post it here in all the week's excitement (2gether08, New Media Awards, Shift Happens). You can read it on the BBC News website too.]
The publicity surrounding Bill Gates’ departure from Microsoft should not obscure the fact that he is still deeply involved in the [...]
