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Nokia enters the data dispenser biz
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Andrew Orlowski
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Every bar has a condom dispenser. Why doesn’t every store have a data dispenser? Because you don’t want to shag a computer, of course. But this is an idea that remains largely unexplored. At 3GSM last week, Nokia tiptoed into a market that one day might be enormous: the “proximity server”. If you’ve attended a…
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Google to Wall St: our CFO couldn’t make it. So meet the Chef
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Andrew Orlowski
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The next time Google invites Wall Street analysts to a six hour financial presentation, it may as well direct them to a point in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Microsoft already has a wonderful MapPoint “drowning service” that will show them precisely how to get there. That surely was the unspoken sentiment behind…
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Key Windows man leaves Redmond
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Andrew Orlowski
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One of the most important figures in Microsoft’s history, David Weise, is to leave Redmond after an illustrious career with the software giant. Weise was one of the developers responsible for a technical breakthrough upon which much of Microsoft’s success today is founded. In 1987 IBM and Microsoft were pouring vast resources into OS/2, the…
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Verity Stob – programming’s funniest memoir
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Andrew Orlowski
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As anyone who’s ever done it professionally knows, programming computers isn’t as glamorous as they make out in the movies. Take for example, Independence Day, where the hero lashes together a program in 30 minutes and conjures up a piece of code that saves the world. Have you ever seen anyone do in that real life?…
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The Cell chip – what it is, and why you should care
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Andrew Orlowski
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Part 1: A look at how it works No chip in years has caused as much excitement as the Cell processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. It promises to be the most important microprocessor of the decade, with potentially enormous repercussions for how the industry computes, and how the rest of us use digital…
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Tablet PC bug ‘fills computer with ink’
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Andrew Orlowski
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A major bug in the Tablet PC version of Windows eats up all the memory in your computer until it crashes. Redmond has yet to acknowledge the problem with a public disclosure about the issue – or even offer a feeble blogshrug [*]. The culprit is the application Tabtip.exe, the site Tablet PC Talk confirms – “The…