Microsoft VP quits to join Google

Another senior executive has left Microsoft. Vic Gundotra, the general manager for platform evangelism at Microsoft who has been with the company for 15 years has quit the company to join Google. This news arrives shortly after the revelation that Microsoft VP Martin Taylor, the former Martin Taylor, the VP of Windows Live and MSN quit just 24 hours after announcing Windows Live Messenger. ...more

The year in search 2005 [part 2]

[Read Part 1 here] Although it has caused fewer waves this year than Google, Yahoo! has single mindedly pursued its own vision of the future of a search-based portal. While Google and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft have developed technology-based solutions by building on their strengths in search and user applications, Yahoo! has developed its vision of a community-based web where people discover and share information among themselves. The roots of the Yahoo! strategy actually goes back many years when the company developed away from its search roots towards becoming a 'portal'. ...more

Apple's 30th Birthday [part 1] - Riding the whirlwind

Thirty years ago this Saturday, 1 April, Apple Computer was founded by three some-time employees of Atari and HP: Steve Jobs, Steve 'Oz' Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. No-one seems absolutely sure of the origins of the name. It has variously been suggested that the name is a tribute to The Beatles' company Apple Corps, to Alan Turing, the father of computer science who killed himself by eating an apple laced with cyanide, or to Sir Isaac Newton, who is pictured sitting beneath an Apple tree in the very first company logo. ...more

Intel pilots new Tablet PC for NHS

Intel and Motion Computing are working with the NHS to produce a tablet computer for clinical use - to speed up the completion of paperwork and to give nursing staff more time to spend with patients. The mobile clinical assistant (MCA) - essentially a Tablet PC for medical use - was piloted at hospitals around the world, including Salford Royal in Manchester, after two years in development. The device, designed by Intel and Mobile Computing, will cost ?1,199 and be released in about two months. ...more

CES: Interview with the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association

People should no longer consider the battle for the living room as a face off between the likes of Microsoft and traditional TV manufacturers said the chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association. But Shapiro admitted he was surprised at Bill Gates' claims over the number of Media Centre PCs sold. Gates claimed in his keynote speech on Wednesday night that 1. ...more