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/ 19 January 2006
The launch of Apple Macintoshes based on Intel processors raises a space-saving — and perhaps a money-saving — idea. Will we be able to run Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on the same machine? There are two ways to do this: the first is to buy a Mac and install Windows. Apple executives have stated that they will not try to prevent this.
Intel plans to leap ahead this year with a strategy based on its Core Solo and Core Duo processors, a new media PC platform called Viiv, and a new logo where the ”Leap Ahead” tagline replaces ”Intel Inside”. That is the gist of the speech that Intel boss Paul Otellini will give later on Thursday on the first day of the giant Consumer Electronics Show.
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/ 3 November 2005
Google could be turning its impressive and extremely profitable search franchise into a powerful portal based on innovative, interworking web-based software. This is what Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN are doing. Instead, it is dabbling with a wide spectrum of unrelated and apparently incidental playground projects.
It seems there are two kinds of worm in the Windows world: ones that threaten hundreds of millions of XP users, and ones that embarrass a small number of media companies using Windows 2000. The second type struck last week. It started spreading via the net on Sunday with Zotob.A, which according to anti-virus company Trend Micro, infected about 50 computers worldwide.
Stewart Butterfield launched Flickr, the online photo-sharing system, somewhat quietly at last year’s Emerging Technology conference in San Diego, California. One year later, at the same show, Flickr is running on almost everybody’s laptop, Butterfield has become a star and, we suspect, a multimillionaire.
”Dude!” exclaimed last week’s Fortune magazine cover, ”Dell’s No 1”. The PC manufacturer named after its 40-year-old founder, Michael Dell, has become America’s most admired company, ahead of General Electric, Starbucks and Wal-Mart.
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/ 17 December 2004
Two weeks ago, IBM agreed to sell its PC business to Lenovo, a Chinese company formerly known as Legend. However, there is no need for buyers to panic. In the short term — 18 months to three years — it should be business as usual. The next generation of ThinkPad portables should arrive on schedule, following the current roadmap. As for the long term — beyond five years — we can only wait and see.
In the beginning, back in 1996, it was SixDegrees. Last year it was Friendster. Last week it was Orkut. Next week it could be Flickr. These websites, and dozens more, are designed to build networks of friends, and they are currently at the forefront of the trendiest internet development: social networking. These sites are spreading like a rash through the internet, but are they sustainable?
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/ 15 December 2003
Anyone who has watched the astonishing stupidity of American intellectual property developments will not be surprised to hear that the latest concerns a patent case. If the defence fails, Web browsers may have to be modified to work with plug-ins in a new way, and websites that exploit plug-in programmes will have to be rewritten to match.
Don’t worry about getting lost or mugged with a new smart map. Just watch out for the marketers