January was a cruel month for tech industry bosses: AMD and Google dumped their chief executives, after two and 10 years respectively, while Apple’s Steve Jobs began a second medical leave of absence. Microsoft’s high-energy CEO Steve Ballmer replaced the company veteran leading his $14bn server and tools business in a disagreement over the company’s [...]
A $19m exhibition has opened in Silicon Valley, the spiritual heart of tech, on the first 2,000 years of computing. I got a tour of the renovated Computer History Museum just ahead of its public re-opening, and heard why Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and other pioneers from the PC revolution are backing an exhibition telling [...]
Oracle’s $5.6bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 didn’t just deliver the software giant a hardware empire, it secured control over one of the planet’s most popular programming languages – Java. And Oracle wasn’t about to surrender control based on some idealistic notions of freedom – no matter what it had once said when Sun [...]
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