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OpenCo London 2013: highlights and key talking points
International innovation festival OpenCo is expanding outside of the US for the first time today, with 50 leading London tech firms set to open their doors and provide a glimpse of their inner workings.
OpenCo London officially...
Windows 8.1 shows how panicky Microsoft is these days
As the news comes through concerning the glories of Windows 8.1, and arguments begin about whether it is good enough, I reminisce about the good old days when Microsoft was not so jumpy about how it moved the industry along.
Let...
Microsoft’s blunder in milking its Office cash cow dry
Last week, I examined Microsoft's strategy of bundling Office with all 10.1in or smaller tablets and clamshell laptops. It appears that Microsoft has decided that these smaller devices will not be used for productivity, but the...
What happened to Linux?
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, has given up on the idea that Linux (which Ubuntu is based on) will ever supplant Windows, saying that if any OS will be the next big thing it's Apple's iOS or...
Why Google's Moto X phone needs to be a winner
Earlier this week, Motorola announced that it will build its new Moto X in, of all places, Fort Worth, Texas. To outsiders this looks like a smart gamble that could turn into a costly mistake. To me it's genius. Google, which...
WatchGuard profiles hackers that pose greatest business security threat
Business security specialist WatchGuard Technologies has profiled the three greatest hacker threats facing modern businesses, identifying them as either hacktivists, cyber-criminals or nation states.
In terms of hacktivism,...
Life in the post-PC age
A recent report from market research firm IDC suggests that PC sales will decline for a second year in a row and that this year, more tablets will ship than laptops. By 2015, IDC predicts that tablet shipments will outpace the PC...
Size doesn't matter: 5 ways big data insights can transform any digital business
When you last read an article about big data, it most likely kicked off with a startling figure or case study - the millions of conversations and terabytes of data we create, or an example of a company drowning in and unable to...
The top 10 things you need to know about malware
Malware – no computer wants it but researchers estimate that the majority of computers have it. But what is malware and what makes it so particularly bad for your PC? Short for "malicious software," malware refers to...
Yahoo’s new Terabyte storage standard
It was a big deal when Gmail first appeared because it finally offered enough storage to keep all your mail. People are drawn to free storage and last week Yahoo set the new standard with its one terabyte giveaway for photos....
