The British government batting hard for the cloud, which it says ill make everything better: lower-cost computing, faster deliver, greater efficiencies and less big vendor lock in. The policy makers are in full flow but so is the hype and branding. I speak to Microsoft’s national technology officer and experts on cloud data lock about [...]
With HTML, Javascript’s become a building block for the web of clouds, browsers and app-stores that feed iPhones and Android devices. According to Google, however, Javascript contains “fundamental flaws” and it’s attempting to persuade other browser makers to go with its Dart language instead. Here, Allen Wirfs-Brock, editor of the ECMAScript 5 standard behind Javascript, [...]
Email-attachment inventor Dr Nathaniel Borenstein rejected Apple’s Steve Jobs twice during the course of his work on digital communications and standards. Today, adding an attachment to an email, text or Twitter page is so simple it’s taken for granted. If Jobs prevailed, however, the web would have been a radically different place. I talked to [...]
Pong was the first successful arcade and then home-entertainment system from Atari, which paved the way for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and others. Ahead of Pong’s 40th anniversary I spoke to Al Alcorn, the engineer who built Pong from scratch twice about its unexpected and unintended success, Atari founder and front-man Nolan Bushnell, and how home [...]
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