2007 May: Computing
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Bobbie Johnson, Which laptop per child?, Guardian, 2007 May 31 (the chipmaking giant Intel is accused of damaging the non-profit scheme to provide cheap laptops for the developing world; it says it's helping)
Randall Stross, Apple's genius in retailing eludes its rivals, IHT, 2007 May 27 (of the many predictions in the world of technology that have turned out to be spectacularly wrong, a prominent place should be made for what the pundits said in 2001 when Apple opened its first retail store in Tysons Corner, Virginia)
Microsoft: Truth in advertising, Economist, 2007 May 26 (feeling unusually threatened, the software giant does an unusual deal)
Intel and STMicro form flash firm, BBC, 2007 May 22 (US chip manufacturing giant Intel and European rival STMicro are merging their flash memory businesses)
David Pogue, Kodak got into the inkjet printer business and shook things up, IHT, 2007 May 17 (Kodak's printers cost a little more - but the ink, according to Kodak, costs half as much as Hewlett-Packard's)
Damon Darlin, Hewlett-Packard's focus on design gives its PCs an edge, IHT, 2007 May 17 (Hewlett-Packard's effort to transform its personal computers from low-margin commodities into more stylish devices has started to pay off)
Reuters, Microsoft says open-source software violates 235 patents, IHT, 2007 May 15 (making its most detailed intellectual-property challenge to open-source software to date, Microsoft said Tuesday that such software, including the Linux operating system, violated 235 of its patents)
John Naughton, Still no sign of a triple alliance to take on Google's might, Observer, 2007 May 13 (the strange business of the 'takeover' that never was - that of Yahoo by Microsoft - raises some interesting questions; first, who benefited?)
IBM and Amazon settle patents row, BBC, 2007 May 8 (computer giant IBM and internet retailer Amazon have settled their patent-infringement lawsuits)
Reuters, Microsoft moves into mobile phone advertising, IHT, 2007 May 3 (Microsoft said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire the European mobile phone advertising company ScreenTonic to gain a foothold in the rapidly growing business for placing ads on mobile phones)
Snowflakes promise faster chips, BBC, 2007 May 3 (chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes)
Jack Schofield, Dell unveils Feisty Fawn Ubuntu in response to customer survey, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (computer giant makes second attempt to sell PCs running open source Linux)
Claudia H Deutsch, Xerox software helps amateurs adjust colors, IHT, 2007 May 2 (this week the company introduced the software equivalent of a translator that can turn plain color speech into fluent computerese)
Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard signs nanotechnology deal, IHT, 2007 May 2 (nanolithosolutions has developed a tool based on Hewlett-Packard's approach to nanoimprint lithography, a method for stamping out patterns for wires that make up computer chips)
Bill Thompson, The evolution of a giant, BBC, 2007 May 2 (Microsoft is showing signs that it is willing to evolve but it needs to do much more to survive)
Joe Clancy, Further education: High-flyers only, please, Guardian, 2007 May 22 (the motor industry needs to attract bright young things to service the complex cars of the future)
James Maguire, Ten Tech Blunders: Whoops, We Stepped in It!, Datamation, 2007 May 23 (of the many missteps, mess-ups, miscalculations and outright step-in-the-doodoo blunders, these are some of the choicest)
Graeme Philipson, On the cusp of another digital revolution, The Age, 2007 May 1 (five years ago, the IT industry was in a slump; it's now hot stuff)
Bobbie Johnson, Which laptop per child?, Guardian, 2007 May 31 (the chipmaking giant Intel is accused of damaging the non-profit scheme to provide cheap laptops for the developing world; it says it's helping)
AP, Microsoft goes touchy-feely, The Age, 2007 May 31 (Microsoft takes the wraps off "Surface", a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch)
Miguel Helft, Inventor puts hopes in computer pen, IHT, 2007 May 29 (instead of forcing users to write with a stylus on a computer's slippery display, LiveScribe would have people use a plump ballpoint pen on paper that is imprinted with nearly invisible miniature dots)
'$100 laptop' sparks war of words, BBC, 2007 May 21 (One Laptop per Child's Nicholas Negroponte accuses Intel of undermining his not for profit scheme)
Data storage: A magnetic hippodrome, Economist, 2007 May 12 (how to record a memory on a wire)
Snowflakes promise faster chips, BBC, 2007 May 3 (chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes)
Keith Stuart, I've got my eye on the future of gaming, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (Sony revealed its new PlayStation Eye camera last week and although I joked at the online Gamesblog that it looks remarkably like the headgear of a federation soldier from Blake's 7, it's a pretty powerful piece of kit)
John Crace, Higher education: Let's dance, Guardian, 2007 May 1 (want to know how culture develops, or where humour and the arts spring from?; ask a group of robots)
Motion-sensitive laptop developed, BBC, 2007 April 30 (a motion-sensitive laptop which can be controlled much like a Nintendo Wii remote is being developed)
Linux evolves for mobile phones, BBC, 2007 May 8 (a version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices)
Rob Enderle, Upcoming Desktop Battle: Windows 2010 vs. Mac Leopard vs. Linux, Datamation, 2007 May 3 (each platform has it strengths and its weaknesses as the looming battle for
market share shapes up)
Jack Schofield, Dell unveils Feisty Fawn Ubuntu in response to customer survey, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (computer giant makes second attempt to sell PCs running open source Linux)
Nicholas G Carr, The Ignorance of Crowds, strategy+business, 2007 May 31 (the open source model can play an important role in innovation, but know its limitations)
Health care: From clipboards to keyboards, Economist, 2007 May 19 (America's health-care industry has been slow to adopt information technology)
Matt O'Sullivan, Telstra overhaul caught in the web, The Age, 2007 May 19 ("on time, on plan and on budget"; that's the catchcry of senior Telstra executives when quizzed on the progress of their five-year grand plan)
Tania Branigan, Most government IT projects 'not successful', Guardian, 2007 May 19 (only 30% of government technology-based projects and programmes are successful, the official in charge of IT at one of its biggest departments has warned)
Richard Pérez-Peña, Business magazine fails to heed its own tech advice, IHT, 2007 May 1 (Business 2.0, the technology-aware magazine published by Time, periodically reminds readers of the importance of backing up computer files)
Jeff Vance, Interop 2007 Buzz: Security to Web 2.0, Datamation, 2007 May 29 (enterprises are waking up to the fact that perimeter security isn't enough)
Nick Miller, 'Datagate' and other apocalypses, The Age, 2007 May 29 (research into data loss, unfortunately, is usually undertaken by firms with an interest in predicting catastrophe)
Patrick Gray, Owning database forensics, The Age, 2007 May 29 (call it the bank-robber principle: if you can't stop them getting in, catch them on the way out)
Cynthia Karena, Plug the holes in your cone of silence, The Age, 2007 May 29 (when confidential data gets out it can be catastrophic, but there are safeguards)
Patrick Gray, Computer security has 'massively failed', The Age, 2007 May 22 (Ivan Krstic criticised software vendors' efforts to secure their products at the opening session of the annual AusCERT computer security conference on the Gold Coast yesterday, where he was keynote speaker)
Bobbie Johnson, It's easy money, says online fraudster who stole £250,000, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (despite tougher security, identity and credit card theft are at an all-time high)
Move to create less clumsy robots, BBC, 2007 May 29 (the race to create more human-like robots stepped up a gear this week as scientists in Spain set about building an artificial cerebellum)
Simulator 'may cut friendly fire', BBC, 2007 May 18 (a network of flight simulators for UK and US pilots could help reduce the risk of "friendly fire" deaths)
Kate Bevan, Just how powerful is the brain of a mouse?, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (impressively - especially when you compare it to your average desktop computer; in fact, your computer at home doesn't even come close to matching the power of half a mouse brain)
Game combats campus culture shock, BBC, 2007 April 27 (a computer game which helps overseas students deal with the culture shocks of UK university life is devised)
Mark Lawson, Don't take it personally, Guardian, 2007 May 25 (anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles)
Peter Spinks, If I only had a brain, The Age, 2007 May 22 (androids, it seems, have appearance in the bag; but is their intelligence only skin-deep?; but there are sharp divisions over the likely future of robotic intellect)
William Saletan, We are joining with the computer, The Age, 2007 May 19 (human and artificial intelligence will become less distinctly different as we merge)
Stephen Hutcheon, Gears puts Google in the driver's seat, The Age, 2007 May 31 (Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don't work without an internet connection)
Design win for Alzheimer's tool, BBC, 2007 May 29 (a screensaver and social network for people with Alzheimer's wins a Microsoft-led software design prize)
David Flynn, Your guide to the web's best freebies, The Age, 2007 May 24 (some of the best things in life cost nothing, even when it comes to software)
Steve Lohr, Data-mining moves into the mainstream, in search of profit, IHT, 2007 May 20 (the digital age has opened the door to detailed measurement of the labor of professionals and office workers who handle ideas and information from customers, suppliers, colleagues and marketers)
Michael Fitzgerald, Software brings gamelike play to the workplace, IHT, 2007 May 20 (Paul Johnston has remade his company on the idea that business software will work better if it feels like a game)
Steve Lohr, World mayors get software to track carbon imprint, IHT, 2007 May 15 (a new Internet tool to help individuals and communities curb their roles in adding global-warming carbon emissions was to be announced on Tuesday at a conference in New York of mayors from around the world, said a person who built the Web technology)
Claudia H Deutsch, Xerox software helps amateurs adjust colors, IHT, 2007 May 2 (this week the company introduced the software equivalent of a translator that can turn plain color speech into fluent computerese)
Jason Hill, Not so scary after all, The Age, 2007 May 31 (interactivity may lessen the effect of mature content)
Jason Hill, A view to a kill, The Age, 2007 May 24 (the next-gen first-person shooter, Quake Wars)
Michael Fitzgerald, Software brings gamelike play to the workplace, IHT, 2007 May 20 (Paul Johnston has remade his company on the idea that business software will work better if it feels like a game)
Stephen Hutcheon, Game activist becomes cannon fodder for a cause, The Age, 2007 May 23 (anti-war activist uses Pentagon-funded computer game to protest the Bush administration's war in Iraq)
AP, Sneak preview of StarCraft sequel, The Age, 2007 May 22 (South Korean gamers were in a celebratory mood following Blizzard Entertainment's unveiling of its sequel to the wildly popular StarCraft game)
Richard Sarson, The kids are alright online, Guardian, 2007 May 10 (while parents fret about timewasting games and online predators, young people are alert to the dangers and relaxed with technologies' potential)
Keith Stuart, I've got my eye on the future of gaming, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (Sony revealed its new PlayStation Eye camera last week and although I joked at the online Gamesblog that it looks remarkably like the headgear of a federation soldier from Blake's 7, it's a pretty powerful piece of kit)
Alexander Gambotto-Burke, Taking the roleplaying game to a whole new level, Guardian, 2007 May 3 (games are much more than just entertainment, argues the man reworking Neverwinter Nights)
AP, Net fosters terror, The Age, 2007 May 3 (extremist Islamic groups have come to value the internet so much for its ability to spread their message that some have said the keyboard is as important as a Kalashnikov rifle)
Seth Schiesel, Video game revolutionizing physical education, IHT, 2007 May 1 (while traditional video games are often criticized for contributing to the expanding waistlines of American children, at least several hundred schools in at least 10 states are now using "Dance Dance Revolution," or "DDR," as a regular part of their physical education curriculum)