A couple of weeks ago, as a part of a football sponsorship deal, a portal was set up for all the official websites of English Football League clubs. The aim was that the sponsorship money, totalling £9m, would be divided among the clubs according...
Do we believe software piracy is coming under control? Are the licence controls and anti-theft work carried out by Microsoft and others bringing us all into line? Not really. The theft of software is still rife and it is the issues of culture and...
In the very old days, computer 'infrastructures' used to consist of a single, large box with a number of connected, 'dumb' clients. IT has never been about making things simpler, at least not from the technological perspective.
All those changes were part and parcel of the technological evolution we have experienced over the past thirty years, punctuated from time to time by leaps in understanding that gave us client/server applications, say, or the commercial potential...
From Adobe's perspective, the acquisition of Macromedia's tools for authoring multimedia content also bolsters its standing in the business market. Adobe also tried to invade Macromedia's dominion by throwing its weight behind the World Wide Web...
Already some countries are solely reliant on overseas expertise for their survival in terms of energy generation and technical support. Then we are left to ponder and play until we discover where to apply the computing and networking power to best...