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Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that takes the newly announced gadget for a fictional test run, rendering the verdict long before it hits the shelves. This weekend: …
Read MoreI was at IBM’s z13 mainframe launch last week, and it brought back a lot of memories, as I was at IBM when the era of mainframes collapsed. When the …
Read MoreApple wrote in a research note on Sunday that an expected analyst with a good scorecard predicting new products would present a stylus with a larger iPad. Speculation about the …
Read MoreIt is with no small sense of regret that Linux Girl brings you this week’s Linux blog Safari, dear readers, because in writing this she must convey some very hard …
Read MoreNo, this is not an article about fecking – drilling for gas and oil in the shale. It is about “drilling down” in big data. We have been using this …
Read MoreMaking the upgrade to Windows 10 is the most important and bold step Microsoft has made. Dirt-on-the-surface seems simple and intuitive, but it represents a shocking and sudden change in …
Read MoreI was one of the launch analysts for Windows 95, and the launch of that product has been widely held – including Bill Gates – as the company’s pinnacle. There …
Read MoreWelcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that resolves new gadget announcements from Wheat. We reveal the move to be a shiny new toy in the days following CES, …
Read MorePeople get sick, and back in the Middle Ages they use leeches and razors until they get better (it’s once again really happy that you weren’t alive in the Middle …
Read MoreEven the most outspoken Apple haters can certainly accept that Apple – judged on the evidence of its record-breaking quarterly profit of US $ 18 billion, the most profit of …
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