UK Computers

Your Chance To Buy An Ultra-Rare Mac

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK Tech

An "ultra-rare" 128k Apple Macintosh computer prototype is up for grabs on eBay, complete with boxy mouse, chunky keyboard and wide-mouthed 5.25-inch ...

The First Batch Of Raspberry Pi Arrives In Stock

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 13.04.2012 | UK Tech

The first batch of Raspberry Pi has arrived at an Oxford warehouse. Orders of the coveted £31 computer could be with IT enthusiasts early next week. ...

Apple Acknowledges Flashback Malware With Update

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 11.06.2012 | UK Tech

Apple has been slammed by online security experts for taking three months to stop the Flashback malware threat to Apple computers and develop software...

Massive Security Hole Infects 600,000 Macs With Flashback Trojan

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 05.06.2012 | UK Tech

Apple has patched a massive security hole that exposed 600,000 Apple Mac users to a trojan virus worldwide. In the United Kingdom, 68,577 cases of ...

School IT Expert Jailed For 'Having Nearly 400,000 Child Porn Photos'

PA | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A school IT expert caught with so many child porn photos police gave up counting has been jailed for two years. Jeffrey Gravell, 54, of Burry Port,...

Addictive Games Are 'Luring Young Into Violent Fantasy World'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Violent and addictive computer games are luring youngsters into a fantasy world of drugs, murder and crime, a union leader warned on Wednesday. It ...

You Need a Vicky - Don't Just De-Clutter Your Home!

Vicky Silverthorn | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Vicky Silverthorn

One thing that is very apparent to me when I de-clutter the lives of my clients, is that a completed job is much more likely to stay organised. That means slowly touching each part of a life that is not being enjoyed enough due to clutter.

Tiny British 'Flycatcher' Microchip Powers The Internet Of Things

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 14.03.2012 | UK Tech

The internet of things will be powered by a tiny, cheap new microchip developed right here in Britain. The Flycatcher chips cost just 30 pence eac...

Thoughts of an Apple Hater

Rosie Rogers | Posted 06.05.2012 | UK Tech
Rosie Rogers

Once you buy an iSomething, you have to buy compatible accessories, you can only buy certified apps, and you better hope water never meets your new baby so you don't have to kiss goodbye to your warranty.

Huge Demand For Raspberry Pi

Guardian.co.uk | Melanie Hick | Posted 05.05.2012 | UK Tech

Demand for the Raspberry Pi computer – a £22 British-designed system – was still running at 700 per second at the end of last week, according to ...

Another Victim in the Continuing Conflict Between Man and Technology

Alistair Coleman | Posted 02.05.2012 | UK Comedy
Alistair Coleman

I've had a few problems with technology this week. Anybody who saw me shouting - very loudly, in the middle of Earl's Court Exhibition Centre - at a laptop which had committed the heinous crime of being temporarily unable to connect to the internet will know what I mean.

The Raspberry Revolution

Helena Gillespie | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK Tech
Helena Gillespie

So what's all the fuss about Raspberry Pi? How can a small red box, thought up by scientists in Cambridge, inspire such a lot of interest? The answer is simple - the Raspbery Pi is the anti-iPad.

Microsoft Windows 8 Preview Launched - Try It Now

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 29.02.2012 | UK Tech

Microsoft shared Windows 8 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. "The first thing you're going to see with Windows 8 is that it's beautiful...

Raspberry Pi: The 22 Quid Computer Teaching Kids To Code

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK Tech

Kids certainly know how to play with computers and gadgets, but few know they can build their own. Raspberry Pi, the £22 computer, will revolutio...

The Met Office Needs Super Computers

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 21.04.2012 | UK Tech

The Met Office would be able to issue more confident severe weather warnings and increase its accuracy on long-term forecasts if had more powerful sup...

God is Dead or Bill Gates

Matt Hicks | Posted 22.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Matt Hicks

The idea that that we live in a designed and created world died today. That is it died in my pretty little head. Don't get me wrong, I have never be...

Tech or Tech-no? Why IT Education Reforms Are Better Late Than Never

Jade Lane | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Jade Lane

Michael Gove, UK education secretary, has finally done the right thing, and realised that IT education in England is ''demotivating and dull". Even better, he's gone one step further and announced an overhaul of the IT National Curriculum, which will focus on web design, computer programming and computer science to reflect todays technological needs.

The Telly and the Cardboard Box

Laila Escartín-Sorjonen | Posted 12.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Laila Escartín-Sorjonen

You might not quite believe this story, but it is based on real life. The protagonists are three 21st century kids, ages ranging from eight to 14, a movie to be watched on television and a shabby cardboard box. The time: Christmas.

Michael Rundle

British '$25 Computer' Sells For Thousands In Pre-Release Auction

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 06.03.2012 | UK Tech

A computer intended to cost just $25 (£15) has surprised its creators by netting thousands in an online pre-sale. The Raspberry Pi computer is aim...

Why the Jeremy Clarkson Twitter Frenzy Shows Computer Don't Make You Clever

Katherine Doggrell | Posted 03.03.2012 | UK Entertainment
Katherine Doggrell

I'm not going to ring in the New Year defending Jeremy Clarkson. What concerns me is that the immediacy of social networking is allowing many, otherwise clear-headed individuals to be sucked into frenzies which, if we witnessed them outside our computers, would have us slapping each others' faces to ward off hysteria.

CES 2012 to be Microsoft's Last One

Andrew Edney | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK Tech
Andrew Edney

Each year at CES, Microsoft kick off proceedings with the keynote address, and then they have one of the largest areas at the event itself. Well, all that will change after next year. Here is what Microsoft said today...

ICT Lessons Are 'Inadequate', Says Ofsted

PA | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education

The teaching of information and computer technology (ICT) is inadequate in a fifth of secondary schools, according to the education watchdog. Pupil...

Microsoft Windows Eight To Launch In February 2012

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Tech

It's been accessible to developers for months, but now the everyday Windows user is set to get the brand new Microsoft Windows 8. A Microsoft spok...

Why Do These Animals Get Touch Screen Computers?

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 06.02.2012 | UK Tech

Primates are to be taught how to use computer touch screens in a study to better understand their memory, communication and emotions. Marwell Wildl...

Emails Banned At Work: IT Giant Atos Pledges To Replace Email With Facebook Style Chat

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK

Multinational IT giant Atos has pledged to become a zero email company in a bid to help its 80,000 employees cope with information overload. Switch...