Computer Science: 1. A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. 2. The boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities.
It was Saturday morning. I plugged my iphone into my Mac to charge it up. And I left it to charge. After the battery was shown as fully charged, I was politely informed by iTunes that there was another version...
Last week the German government warned web users to ditch Internet Explorer and go with some alternative (Firefox, Google Chrome or Safari being the obvious choices).
Why?
As far as I can tell there is a fairly vicious exploit out there which...
Finally, because it seems to have taken the longest time since its merry band of authors (Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi, Marcia Kaufmann and I) started hitting the keyboard, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies is now available from Amazon. (If you are desperate to make an impulse purchase you can click this link). I must therefore...
For years, decades even, we have been anticipating the convergence of computing and telecommunications. People talked about it in the 1970s. Nevertheless, it began in earnest much later—in about 1994 when the Internet, catching everyone by surprise, sprang into action and connected all the computers together.
You could claim that the Internet was the convergence of...