Steve Jobs's dire legacy: Devastating bad taste
Apple's appetite for destruction in the mobile phone business sits uneasily with its history and its moralising. How much damage is enough?
Mixed Signals
Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise
Rupert Goodwins
Rupert started off as a nerdy lad expecting to be an electronics engineer, but having tried it for a while discovered that journalism was more fun. He ended up on PC Magazine in the early '90s, before that evolved into ZDNet UK - and Rupert evolved with them into an online journalist.
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You're being watched - by a rock
The stones will cry out! It’s a nice phrase with a Biblical ring, understandably so as it occurs in both Old and New Testaments.
Dutch ratify net neutrality law
The upper house of the Netherlands parliament adopted on Tuesday a new Telecommunications Act, making the country the first in Europe to put net neutrality into law. The lower house approved the act in June last year.
ZDNet UK at TNMOC: What we learned
The idea was simple: let's pretend our offices have burned to the ground, and operate ZDNet UK from out of town. Too simple?
ZDNet UK at the National Museum Of Computing
We have arrived! The advance guard of myself and Charles McLellan safely installed, ZDNet UK is now live from The National Museum Of Computing at Bletchley Park.
Google Drive launches with multiformat search
Google unveiled on Tuesday Google Drive, its online storage system. Allowing users to store any sort of data in Google's cloud, access is through the browser or an app for Windows, Mac OS, Android and, "in the next few weeks", iOS.
Nokia credit rating cut to junk status
Credit rating company Fitch Rating has downgraded Nokia from BB- to BBB+, marking the company as unfit for investment.Fitch Rating has downgraded Nokia from BB- to BBB+, marking the company as unfit for investment.
ZDNet UK's Bletchley Park big day out
This Thursday, ZDNet UK is upping sticks and abandoning our London offices. We will become a touring machine and run the site, hopefully as normal, from The National Museum Of Computing at Bletchley Park.
The ZX Spectrum: Birthday memories
It may have been startlingly modern once, but at 30, the Sinclair Spectrum is as close in time to the world's first commercial computers of the 50s as it is to the latest iPad.It's doing rather better than LEO, though; last year, around a hundred new programs were written for the Spectrum, there are double that number of emulators, and thousands of fans still chatter away online.
My fight with Microsoft: why APIs need to be free
With Oracle choosing APIs as a legal battleground on which to tangle with Google's Android, I'm reminded of another time when APIs were used in lieu of competitive products in an attempt to control a marketplace.In another life, I was a software developer.