Intel are 40 today – kind of.. the chip that started it all.
On November the 15th 1971 – exactly 40 years ago today the magazine Electronic News ran an advert for a new kind of chip, a special chip that could perform different operations via the instructions...
View ArticleMicrosoft sues Comet for software piracy.
Microsoft are in the process of issuing legal proceedings against UK retailer Comet for allegedly creating and selling fake windows discs. The software in question is Windows XP and Windows Vista. The...
View ArticleSymantec source code stolen
Source code from some of Symantec’s products has been stolen by hackers from third parties working for Symantec. The exact products compromised are unknown but reports suggest that the products in...
View ArticleTesco Broadband… is it good news? (Yes – Probably)
Tesco, the super brand we all know, is now offering broadband for the tiny sum of £2.50 a month (somehow!). It does sound like a very good deal indeed. But is it? The first catch (i mean prerequisite)...
View ArticleWindows 8 – Consumer Preview out now
Microsoft launch their first ‘Consumer Preview’ of Windows 8. To the rest of us this simply means BETA version.. or does it? I’m not sure why the name change was required as the old system of...
View ArticleSmartphone Operating System Market Share
Recent reports online suggest that iPhone IOS is on the up. It seems weird saying its on the up.. almost everybody i know has an iPhone already! But as we all know in the IT world Android has been,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Virtual Academy (MVA) – It’s really good stuff!
OK so its been around for a while now – but i recently set myself up on this and have also set others up and have found it to be really quite a lot better than i thought it would be. Microsoft are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface.. Tablet time all over again..
Microsoft have finally announced their very own tablet (Surface) PC. They are a little behind the wave (about 2 years) but they have arrived with a bang, sort of anyway. The new device will come in 2...
View ArticleMicrosoft begins Hotmail retirement with new and shiney Outlook.com…
Yesterday Microsoft announced the latest incarnation of its popular free email system, hotmail. Hotmail will be, in time, replaced by outlook.com. It really signals the start of the end for live.com...
View ArticleSharePoint.. Internal vs External.. what not to do!
As a Small to Medium Business Support outfit we get to see a lot of SharePoint in its various formats these days, sometimes its the Small Business Server companyweb setup.. great for document storage...
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