What do iPhones, Twitter, Netflix, cleaner cities, safer cars, state-of-the-art environmental management and modern medical diagnostics have in common? They are all made possible by Moore’s Law.
Moore…
Momentum is gathering behind calls to pardon the father of computer science.
BinaryApe
You may have read the British Government is being petitioned to grant a posthumous pardon to one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and most successful codebreakers, Alan Turing. You may also have…
Software patenting was a fringe activity for the first 20 years of the software industry.
opensourceway
What would the software industry look like without patents?
It’s a question worth asking in the context of Apple’s recent body blow to Samsung,
which will see Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 kept off Australian…
Jobs's influence on the "iGeneration" has been profound.
Kimiro Hoshino/AFP
More than one commentator has noted the poignant irony of learning today of the death of Steve Jobs on a product the founder and former CEO of Apple created.
Millions of people around the world, writing…
Apple's "visionary and creative genius" has died at the age of 56.
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Apple founder Steve Jobs, one of the technology industry’s most influential figures, has died after a battle with cancer, at 56.
In a brief statement, the company announced his death without giving a…
The factors fuelling advances in computer hardware are drying up.
Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP
We are consumers of software that is ever more capable, diverse and clever.
Our Google queries, our Facebook experience, our ability to play HD movies on our iPads, and the convenience of reading emails…
Apple chief steve Jobs exits, but his grip on the company is likely to remain.
“God dammit, Gil,” shouted Bill Gates. “Why are you spending $400 million on this junk? Steve knows nothing about technology. He’s just a kind of super salesman. Virtually everything he thinks and says…
