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Jack Schofield is a technology writer for The Guardian. He contributes to both print and online versions of the newspaper, and runs a column - "Ask Jack" across both media to advise people concerning their computer problems.

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Google aims to take over the netbook market with its Chrome operating system

Google dominates the web and is already making a big impact in the smartphone business with its Android operating system. The netbook computer is next in line, and Google is targeting this fast-growing market with Chrome OS, a stripped down operating ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Apple iTablet reportedly delayed until the second half of next year

DigiTimes in Taiwan reckons that the launch of Appe's putative tablet PC will be delayed so that it can launch a model with an OLED screen Bear in mind that Apple's touch-screen tablet-style computer has not been announced, and stories about it may be ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 arrives in a free public beta test version

Microsoft Office is the major revenue generator for Microsoft's Business Division, which had revenues of $4.4bn and profits of $2.8bn in the company's latest quarterly results, declared on 23 October. In the last financial year, the Business Division ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

Newsbytes | 19 November 2009

McAfee's fifth annual Virtual Criminology Report says some of the world's leading countries are arming themselves for cyberwar. The world's three fastest supercomputers now use AMD Opteron processors, though Intel-based systems still have 80% of the ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMD,  Intel,  Microsoft Corporation,  Sony,  Google Inc.

Computer pioneer Sir Maurice Wilkes: vision and vacuum tubes

Sir Maurice Wilkes with the Witch unit being restored at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park. Photograph: John Robertson. Walk round the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park and sooner or later you'll hear a cry of recognition ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cambridge University,  John von Neumann,  University of Pennsylvania,  Harvard University

Get that tweet off your chest, and onto your vest

Manchester-based clothes2order.com is running a competition on Twitter, where it will print the best tweet on a T-shirt. It's not offering a print-to-order service, yet, but at least it has found a cheap way to get people's attention The first T-shirt ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion to settle all their legal disputes

In a surprise move, Intel has agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion and to abide by an agreed set of rules for its business conduct in return for settling their long-running legal complaints. AMD will drop "all pending litigation" including cases the US and ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  AMD,  European Commission,  Andrew Cuomo,  Wall Street Journal

Medion Life S47000 HD sports camera

I'd love to make a TV commercial for Medion's S47000 high-definition sports camcorder. It's somewhat ruggedised and splashproof, so I could show trendy young people skiing down Swiss mountainsides, BMX bikers capturing each other in action, and kids ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  11 Nov 2009

Tech Weekly: SoundCloud interviewed, the IBM PC enters our Hall of Fame

Alexander Ljung from SoundCloud explains how their site is more than just a YouTube for audio – allowing musicians and podcasters to collaborate through his site. Plus Jack Schofield opens the Tech Weekly Hall of Fame, inducting people, places and ...

From CHARLES ARTHUR, BOBBIE JOHNSON, JACK SCHOFIELD, SCOTT CAWLEY, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Dave Grohl,  Moby (musician),  Facebook Inc.,  Skype

Oh dear, now I've upset the DAB radio-loving DRDB

I'm amused to see that I've been attacked by the DRDB (Digital Radio Development Bureau), which is a trade body whose purpose is apparently to help flog DAB to a somewhat reluctant British public. I certainly don't expect them to enjoy their marketing ...

From JACK SCHOFIELD, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC

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