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NHS Finance Management isn't the envy of the world
There were some complaints about the depiction of the NHS in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. Maybe people were upset that the dancers were all dressed up as nurses and patients. Opinion
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If HP wants to be the new IBM, does Google want to be the new Apple?
So I go away for two weeks and all hell breaks loose. First, Google decides to buy Motorola's mobile phone operation, then HP says it's getting out of the PC business and discontinuing WebOS products. Now, the Google thing makes sense, kind of, if yo... Opinion
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Apple may not be a computer company anymore but it's doing very nicely
In January 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the company was dropping the word "Computer" from its name to become "Apple Inc". As he pointed out at the time, only one product (the Mac) was a computer out of the four pr... Opinion
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Is Google's Chromebook the right idea in the wrong place?
Google's Chromebook seems to me to be a good idea but not necessarily one that is being executed in the right way. As others have remarked, there is an issue over what you do with a machine that runs on a browser-based OS if you're not able to connec... Opinion
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Screen saver blues for Dixons: 28 years of MicroScope funnies (13)
A Scope staffer was taking a wander around the Dixons in Heathrow Airport back in 2002, marvelling at all the wonderful electronic gadgets for sale. Settling his gaze on a laptop, our man's eyes were drawn to the screen saver message scrolling ac... Opinion
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If the MacBook Pro is "the last notebook you'll ever need", what's the point of making any more?
Apple hasn't been slow to trumpet the InfoWorld review for its latest MacBook Pro and it's not hard to see why when reviewer Tom Yager waxes so enthusiastically about it to the point where he states: "After more than two weeks of continuous test... Opinion