Daily Archives: May 6, 2011

Escaping the Monopoly, One Application at a Time

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Robert Pogson

Much of the lock-in to Wintel is in the form of applications that are only available on that platform: depend on the app – depend on the platform. There is a news item about a medium-sized business finding that Wintel … Continue reading →

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ARM and Apples

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Robert Pogson

My prediction that ARM will invade the PC space more generally seems to be coming true even at Apple who only a few years ago migrated from PPC to x86. When ARM goes to 64bit, Apple is expected to move … Continue reading →

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Really Small Cheap Computers in Education

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Robert Pogson

A reader brought this to my attention. An organization has developed a prototype of a small cheap computer on a USB stick that could bring back the enthusiasm of young people for IT that they had in the 1980s with … Continue reading →

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