ARM: the British tech success that counts electronics and computer giants from the US, Japan and South Korea as its customers and whose chip architectures run almost every single smart phone on the planet. Now, the CEO architect of ARM’s success, Warren East, is leaving. How does replacement Simon Segars ensure ARM sweeps into PCs, [...]
Boot to Gecko, Mozilla’s open-source handset, is key for the web and Mozilla according to Mozilla’s Europe president Tristian Nitot. For Mozilla, it means life after Firefox and for mobile it means freedom and openness in a closed and controlled Apple and Google world. Can Mozilla convert the success it’s had with Firefox on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Killing its rival to the iPad was expected, but Hewlett-Packard’s revelation it’s reviewing its PC business and might withdraw from the sector completely to become a software company was not. I explain how the world’s largest PC maker is following dangerously in the footsteps of its one-time Silicon-Valley neighbor, the server systems-giant Sun Microsystems. You [...]
RIM’s known to millions for the ever-faithful and indispensable BlackBerry. Now RIM has branched into tablets, launching the PlayBook against Apple’s iPad. The PlayBook is a manifesto for an open web, working with the internet as it is not as Steve Jobs wants it. But is the PlayBook “professional grade”, as RIM is claiming? Find [...]
Let down by slow PCs and forced to build their own, SETI scientists searching the cosmos for signs of intelligent life believe Silicon Valley can finally deliver systems packing the punch they need to find ET. The SETI project has completed a major IT overhaul that involves throwing its core search code out under an [...]
Cloud computing’s hailed by tech companies as friendlier to the planet than businesses running their own servers. Problem is, the data centers underneath them draw electricity from the same environmentally unfriendly power grids. Now, Icelandic start up Greenqloud’s preparing a cloud that’s powered using the renewable volcanic forces that have helped shape Iceland. Read my [...]
Hewlett-Packard is Microsoft’s biggest Windows partner, so what does it mean for the companies’ relationship – and Microsoft’s business – when the world’s largest PC maker’s new CEO said every Windows PC his company sells in 2012 will also ship with the Linux-based webOS onboard. The times are a changing, but HP’s decision says more [...]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a digital democrat who loves what computing power can do for ordinary citizens. A pioneer in the 70s and 80s PCs revolution who personally built Apple’s first machines, Woz – as he’s known – explains why people 2,000 years from now will have an even higher opinion of the company [...]
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