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Article | 18/02/2013 In Pictures: Cloud predictions for 2013

What does the IT industry predict for the Cloud in 2013? Here are 10 key projections.

Article | 10/12/2012 In Pictures: Gearhead. Weird Websites

Here are some fine examples of the madness of the Internet.

Article | 31/08/2012 Terahertz scanners, drugs, and shoes

A new technology will make it ridiculously easy to see if you are carrying or have consumed drugs or touched or have explosives on you.

Article | 8/06/2012 In Pictures: The Gearhead Show - 8 teeny tiny computers

Even though we're all walking around with computers in our pockets (a.k.a. smartphones) there's still lots of uses for even more and even smaller comp...

Article | 13/04/2012 Opinion: Microsoft, instead of turning the lights off on XP, make it open source

To state the obvious,, Microsoft is hugely important economically and culturally, and as Peter Parker (AKA Spiderman) was told by his grandfather: "Wi...

Article | 7/09/2011 When 16GB is really 14GiB

I was asked the other day by a friend why his iPad says, on the outside, that it has 16GB of storage, while in the About tab in the Settings app the s...

Article | 19/08/2011 Server scripts, Web calendars and form handlers

One of my recent projects has been designing and building a Web platform for Community Emergency Response Teams. CERTs are local organizations that ex...

Article | 6/07/2011 The iPad: Epic success for users

You read last week's Backspin (you did, didn't you?) so you'll know it included a riposte from my old friend and verbal sparring partner, Winn Schwart...

Article | 30/06/2011 Impersonator, a different kind of virtualization

One thing we all have is lots of old software, and we always need to worry about how we will run that one crucial application next year, the year afte...

Article | 10/06/2011 Share Netflix? Share a jail cell

The leaden hand of Big Media and the fact that it has got any number of politicians well and truly bought was once again revealed this week when the s...

Article | 21/05/2011 Ninite automates installation of Windows, Linux apps

Without doubt, there is a core set of applications and tools you need on all PCs, whether it's your own machine or those of users. That set typically ...

Article | 3/05/2011 RIM pulls a zombie out of the hat

I just got my sweaty hands on a RIM BlackBerry PlayBook. This is my first pass at analyzing the product and ... well, we'll get to conclusions later.

Article | 9/04/2011 Epsilon helps mug you at home

It is one thing to be out on the street and randomly mugged, but quite another to have someone follow you home, trick you into letting them into your ...

Article | 25/03/2011 Lots of "people" you interact with online are sockpuppets

"I hear his name bandied about a lot, but I don't know him. I don't know who Henson is. He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here, but ...

Article | 10/03/2011 Three interesting Twitter tools

OK, so let's say you're interested in social trends. A great place to look at what's hot is Twitter and, yep, there's a service that will graph the po...

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