News and comment on what's happening in the technology industry, and the direction it's heading.
Jack Schofield spent the 1970s editing photography magazines before becoming editor of an early UK computer magazine, Practical Computing. In 1983, he started writing a weekly computer column for the Guardian, and joined the staff to launch the newspaper's weekly computer supplement in 1985. This section launched the Guardian’s first website and, in 2001, its first real blog. When the printed section was dropped after 25 years and a couple of reincarnations, he felt it was a time for a change....
With booming and much-hyped markets for smartphones and tablets, you might think the chip industry would be doing well. It isn't. Gartner reckons semiconductor revenues will fall by 3 percent this year as PC production falls by 2.5 percent.
Samsung has increased its lead over Apple in the market for "smart connected devices", which includes PCs, tablets and smartphones, says IDC, while smartphones will take two thirds of this device market by 2016.
Bragging about millions of results is a long-standing feature of Google Search, but it has no practical benefits, because it will never, ever show you more than a thousand. It's time for Google's estimates to stop being out by perhaps 99.9999 percent.
SMS, the Short Messaging Service used on mobile phones, is celebrating its 20th birthday today, while suffering its first decline in popularity. However, the system still has advantages that will keep it going for years...
Informa is predicting healthy sales of Smart TV sets, but they're still not smart enough, as Apple, Google and Microsoft eye the prospects of a joined-up market for "three screens and a cloud"…
After the world's oldest working digital computer was rebooted at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park last week, it showed its paces in a race against a man with a hand-cranked Facit mechanical calculator.
Although businesses have been upgrading from Windows XP for more than three years, the deadline is approaching, and there are still around 500 million users to move with only 500 days to go
Microsoft's Surface RT is a great tablet and good enough to do real work in Office, if you invest in a Type keyboard. But it's still a bit less than a full laptop replacement….
With the next Consumer Electronics Show due in Las Vegas in January, the CEA's 'CES Unveiled' roadshow came to London to give us an overview of the way the market is developing.
Too many companies failed to prepare for Windows 7 and they are now paying the price. Starting some small pilot projects to explore the major changes in Windows 8 could ensure they don't repeat their mistakes.