As Apple chairperson, inventor and entrepreneur, Steve Jobs made an unprecedented impact on the world’s consumer electronics markets.
As Apple chairperson, inventor and entrepreneur, Steve Jobs made an unprecedented impact on the world’s consumer electronics markets.
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/ 3 February 2010
I don’t think there’s much doubt about whether you’re safer using Windows or Mac OS X: the answer is Mac OS X.
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/ 23 October 2009
The first thing you’ll notice about Windows 7 is that it looks like Vista. It also works like Vista, except for a very welcome graphics upgrade.
Internet Explorer 8 is much snappier and far more secure than IE6 and IE7 and has some innovative features that are not available elsewhere.
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/ 13 October 2008
Jack Schofield meets Vint Cerf, the "father of the internet", and finds out what he thinks about net neutrality, spam and abuse of the web.
Facebook is now scything through companies thanks to its compelling combination of MySpace, Flickr, forums and Friends Reunited, all done with a bit of taste. It was started at Harvard in 2004 and spread virally through universities and colleges, but two things have made Facebook the hottest thing on the web this year.
Last week’s feature about the possible future of audio file formats attracted much feedback — which is odd, because most people don’t really care which ones they use, and may not even know what they are. But it turns out there’s a handful of open-source evangelists who think you should use Ogg or Ogg Vorbis.
It’s a good bet that if you have 20 online accounts, you don’t have 20 different passwords. In fact, according to a survey by Kaspersky Lab, most people (51% of us) only have between one and four passwords for 20 accounts. We are insecure. But recent developments mean we could be more secure in the near future.
Dell’s latest launch has really taken off. Unfortunately for Dell’s crumbling profitability, it’s a website called IdeaStorm, not a new PC. IdeaStorm is designed to get ideas and feedback from Dell users, and the mechanism is much the same as Digg: people make suggestions and everybody votes for the ones they like best.