Category: Software
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The trouble with Skype is you can’t rely on it yet
The Skype outage in the week just before Christmas was an inconvenience to millions of people who use the internet phone service. For up to two days, the service was effectively unavailable to tens of millions of people – no…
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How to understand sentiment from analysing big data
Because analysis and interpretation of behaviours online is a big part of what my firm WCG does for its living, I pay attention to new ideas and different thinking on how to zero in on what you need from data…
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A nostalgic look through a window on computer history
Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, posted a little bit of computer nostalgia if not history the other day – the press release from 1985 announcing the launch of Micros0ft Windows. I don’t remember much about Windows 1.0. Although I’d…