This week, Aleks Krotoski meets web pioneer Ted Nelson. Way back in 1960, Nelson conceived a world-wide electronic publishing system capable of acting as a repository for all human knowledge, with links that allowed users to navigate between documents – which he dubbed “hypertext”.
This week, Aleks Krotoski meets web pioneer Ted Nelson. Way back in 1960, Nelson conceived a world-wide electronic publishing system capable of acting as a repository for all human knowledge, with links that allowed users to navigate between documents – which he dubbed “hypertext”.
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Tech Weekly podcast: Project Xanadu and TV soundbars
For a brief moment, I had hopes that RIM had made a move that would unseat it from the funk it’s been sitting in for years.
For a brief moment, I had hopes that RIM had made a move that would unseat it from the funk it’s been sitting in for years.
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Editorial: RIM’s new CEO isn’t the shakeup it needed
Neil Hunt is the interviewee on this edition of Tech Weekly. He’s the chief product officer at Netflix, the online streaming service from the US that delivers movies and TV online to more than 20 million subscribers
Neil Hunt is the interviewee on this edition of Tech Weekly. He’s the chief product officer at Netflix, the online streaming service from the US that delivers movies and TV online to more than 20 million subscribers
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Tech Weekly podcast: Netflix arrives in the UK
South Korean manufacturer announces massive range of new products including a 55in Super OLED TV Samsung took the chance at CES to announce a number of new products and introduce some already familiar outside the US. Briefly, they were: • Smart TV, with a promise that models bought now will in future be upgradeable through a simple add-on part; • 3D content for TVs; • the 5in Note “phablet” (a phone/tablet), introduced in the UK in October 2011 but new to the US; • Wi-Fi enabled cameras; • a (very impressive) 55in Super OLED TV; • a new ultrabook; • an app winner who devised an app intended to run across Samsung Smart TVs, tablets and phones, who won $100,000. The list of products announced and launched is very long, and involved what seemed like the entire cast of executives of Samsung’s US business, plus Boo Keun Yoon, president of Samsung Electronics, who opened proceedings, declaring that Samsung was “pushing boundaries” and that he was “very proud of where this company is today”
South Korean manufacturer announces massive range of new products including a 55in Super OLED TV Samsung took the chance at CES to announce a number of new products and introduce some already familiar outside the US. Briefly, they were: • Smart TV, with a promise that models bought now will in future be upgradeable through a simple add-on part; • 3D content for TVs; • the 5in Note “phablet” (a phone/tablet), introduced in the UK in October 2011 but new to the US; • Wi-Fi enabled cameras; • a (very impressive) 55in Super OLED TV; • a new ultrabook; • an app winner who devised an app intended to run across Samsung Smart TVs, tablets and phones, who won $100,000. The list of products announced and launched is very long, and involved what seemed like the entire cast of executives of Samsung’s US business, plus Boo Keun Yoon, president of Samsung Electronics, who opened proceedings, declaring that Samsung was “pushing boundaries” and that he was “very proud of where this company is today”
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CES 2012: Samsung unveils smart TVs
If you’re reading this now and have experienced the wonders of modern air travel then you have surely suffered through what I call the “Terrible 10,000 Feet.” This is the period between the clunk of the cabin door closing and the bong of the cabin indicator, the chime signifying arrival of the magic altitude where “approved electronic devices” can then be used again. The first half of the worst part of the flight is then over — the latter half to commence as soon as the plane dips again below that gadget ceiling
If you’re reading this now and have experienced the wonders of modern air travel then you have surely suffered through what I call the “Terrible 10,000 Feet.” This is the period between the clunk of the cabin door closing and the bong of the cabin indicator, the chime signifying arrival of the magic altitude where “approved electronic devices” can then be used again. The first half of the worst part of the flight is then over — the latter half to commence as soon as the plane dips again below that gadget ceiling
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Editorial: How FAA-certified gadgets could improve air travel and eliminate the Terrible 10,000 Feet
As 100 new YouTube channels are announced, Ben McOwen Wilson, YouTube’s content partnerships director for UK and Ireland, explains how they are working with broadcasters and Mark Mitchinson of Huawei on how the Chinese mobile manufacturer plans to break into the UK market. Plus this week’s news headlines. Charles Arthur presents this episode –- Aleks Krotoski has lost her voice – and will hopefully return next week
As 100 new YouTube channels are announced, Ben McOwen Wilson, YouTube’s content partnerships director for UK and Ireland, explains how they are working with broadcasters and Mark Mitchinson of Huawei on how the Chinese mobile manufacturer plans to break into the UK market. Plus this week’s news headlines. Charles Arthur presents this episode –- Aleks Krotoski has lost her voice – and will hopefully return next week
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Tech Weekly podcast: YouTube – and who is Huawei?
This week’s column asks what happens to our digital lives after we die.
This week’s column asks what happens to our digital lives after we die.
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Untangling the Web: Death
Aleks Krotoski is joined by Charles Arthur and Dan Catt for this week’s special studio-based podcast, as the team take a break from their busy live schedule.
Aleks Krotoski is joined by Charles Arthur and Dan Catt for this week’s special studio-based podcast, as the team take a break from their busy live schedule.
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Tech Weekly podcast: BlackBerry blackout, Siri scrutinised
Tech Weekly is recording its first live Tech City Talk at Imperial College tonight: who will build the future digital economy?
Tech Weekly is recording its first live Tech City Talk at Imperial College tonight: who will build the future digital economy?
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Tech Weekly’s Tech City Talks: the skills debate
A mop up of the big tech stories from the last fortnight – including some of the ones we weren’t able to cover in last week’s programme while we looked at the ideas for a Digital Public Space. There have certainly been some important announcements – from the launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire to the unveiling of the new Apple iPhone 4S
A mop up of the big tech stories from the last fortnight – including some of the ones we weren’t able to cover in last week’s programme while we looked at the ideas for a Digital Public Space. There have certainly been some important announcements – from the launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire to the unveiling of the new Apple iPhone 4S
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Tech Weekly podcast: Apple iPhone 4S and Amazon Kindle Fire launches
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