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What did the television industry make of Eric Schmidt's MacTaggart speech?There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture: the pantomime of an inter-industry dispute, an intellectual appreciation of the past year's achievements and a warm glow of self-congratulation derived from being an industry that still matters, despite everything. Eric Schmidt was never going...

The boss of Google charms the Edinburgh TV festival but the company's relationship with the media is complexGoogle is the loveable monopolist. It didn't set out, perhaps, to dominate internet search. Its executives like to remind us we have a choice in search every moment of the day – but somehow, whatever Yahoo-Bing's attractions, we end up at Google every time. Google structures how we discover, how we learn, how...

Executive in charge of 2012 coverage has spoken about the proposed experiment at the Edinburgh televison festivalThe BBC is considering plans to broadcast the 100 metres final of the London Olympics in 3D, as well as trying out a new technology that delivers picture quality said to be 16 times better than HDTV. Roger Mosey, the BBC executive in charge of the corporation's London 2012 coverage, told reporters on the...

Repair That Slow Computer With Registry Fixes Just like with a car your computer will run fast and problem free at first. It feels good to browse with no worries or error messages. You know your computer functions properly without fail, but after a few months you notice things are beginning to change a little, and not for the good. You see your computer gradually slowing down and the overall performance drops in quality....

You're supposed to be good at that and it'll certainly liven up your tweetsWhile the Boris Johnsons of this world (@MayorOfLondon) make waves across the Twittersphere you, Jeffrey Archer (@jeffreyarcher), have been quietly getting on with business to a far more select group (4,000 at the last count). Sadly, a stream of mainly promotional book tweets ("A Prisoner of Birth is No 1 on the Fnac ebook best-selling list (Fnac...

Speechwriting, badger racing and posts about Ricky Gervais – it was time for a change with £15k on credit cardsSam here. I'm on the train up to the Edinburgh television festival. Our friend's not coming. Not enough money in the Enter4Entertainment expense budget, I said. Now, I had to deliver a bit of bad news last week, but this is the weekend of truth. Obviously there will be a couple of posts about Ricky Gervais...

The place to talk about games when the Bank Holiday barbecue is rained offJust in case you're stuck indoors with nothing to do today, why not chat about the games you've been playing over the weekend? If you've bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution, what do you make of Square Enix's new intepretation of the Warren Spector classic? Or are you catching up with titles you haven't had chance to enjoy yet? I'm playing a fare...

A group of people in Switzerland are trying to outlaw the world's favourite presentation softwareSwitzerland could become the first country to outlaw PowerPoint presentations if a new party runs in the October parliamentary elections. Matthias Poehm, founder of the Anti-PowerPoint Party, claims that €350bn could be saved globally each year by ditching the scourge of public speaking. Poehm believes that the software...

What happens when the city you love goes up in smoke and you're on the wrong side of the Channel, aperitif in hand? It's a riot of tweets – and a moment missedI went on holiday. It was lovely, thanks. Tan, wine, etc. The sound of crickets. The blazing aircon of a European supermarket and whole nights spent arguing about the fan. Badminton. Bread. But while I was away, loads of stuff happened. Our first night out of...

Eric Schmidt criticises David Cameron's proposal that potential rioters should be barred from social mediaGoogle's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has criticised David Cameron's proposal to limit the use of social media sites during civil unrest in the wake of the riots that took place across England earlier this month.Schmidt, speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Saturday,...

Xbox 360, PS3, 505 Games, cert 3, out nowFans of rugby games, rather like fans of the All Blacks, have had a long wait. Although the four-year delay since the last oval ball-based offering from the gaming industry is hardly in the same league as the 24-year wait New Zealand have had to endure since they last won the World Cup (not that they're chokers or anything…), it still feels like a very long time. Factor in that...

PS3, Xbox 360, Capcom, out nowReleased at the fag-end of the 90s, a decade in which Capcom had taken the fighting game to a mass market and then, with countless iterations, relegated it to the doldrums, Third Strike was largely overlooked. With the fighting genre reborn, it seems an appropriate time for its retur...

Will Freeman finds out what's on offer at Europe's biggest games fairIncreasingly expansive, last week's Gamescom, the annual video games expo in Cologne that welcomes both the industry and the public, now features audience numbers that rival the size of the world's biggest music festivals. It also shares their bewildering choice, stands spewing noise and neon competing for the attention of 275,000 attendees and creating...

Lee Cronin explains the potential benefits of evolving inorganic materialsLee Cronin is the Gardiner professor of chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He also runs the Cronin Group, which is involved in work to "construct complex functional molecular architectures that are not based on biologically derived building blocks". Earlier this year, he gave a talk at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh.What is inorganic biology?Inorganic...

Music streaming service Spotify now has almost 2 million paying customersSpotify, the digital jukebox, is forecast to report a profit for the first time when it publishes its 2010 results later this year, in the biggest indication yet that a business model is emerging that could stem the millions lost to music piracy.Already ahead of iTunes as the biggest digital music retailer in Sweden and Norway, Spotify now has...

Apple's CEO always wanted to get something great to the customer without any obstacles – except that they should payTen years is, of course, a long time in media. Ten years ago, if you wanted to download some music, your best bet was Napster or one of the filesharing systems such as LimeWire or KaZaA. There were legal services, but they were so dire they wouldn't pass much muster today: there was PressPlay and MusicNet...

Forget the old approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computingBack to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers. One item in particular on that curriculum will bemuse the youngsters. It goes by the initials ICT, short for information and communication technology....

The continued advance of mobile computing suggests the PC has reached its end stateWith admirable aplomb, if not grammar, Michael Dell, the chief executive and founder of Dell Inc, tweeted last week: "Like Mark Twain, the reports of PC's death have been greatly exaggerated." His point (once you got past the dangling participle) being that he thinks the PC business is still alive and kicking. The trigger for his comment...

The chairman of Google has delivered a devastating critique of the UK's education system and said the country had failed to capitalise on its record of innovation in science and engineering. Delivering the annual MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, Eric Schmidt criticised "a drift to the humanities" and attacked the emergence of two educational camps, each of which "denigrate the other. To use what I'm told is the local...

Samsung has been banned from selling its Galaxy Tab tablet computers in Germany until at least 9 September following a successful injunction claim by Apple. The decision leaves the South Korean electronics giant in limbo during the giant IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin next week. A German court said on Thursday it would deliver its ruling on that date, two days after the end of IFA, after hearing arguments...

China's state broadcaster has screened footage that apparently shows army-labelled software for attacking US-based websites, security experts have said. Beijing has consistently denied being behind cyber-attacks, insisting it plays no part in hacking and is itself a victim. The analysts warned that the six-second clip could be a mock-up by the broadcaster, CCTV, and that, if genuine, it was probably around 10 years...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is to launch a music subscription service, BBM Music. BBM Music went on trial on Thursday in the UK, US and Canada, and is expected to roll out to 18 countries later this year. For $4.99 a month – UK prices have yet to be confirmed – BBM users will have access to 50 songs. Users can build up their playlist by sharing with friends, and have access to all 50 songs on a friend's profile....

The entrepreneur's entrepreneur, Steve Jobs has fascinated and mystified the tech business community for more than a decade steering Apple from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world. Under Jobs, Apple has become the exception to every business rule, expanding into markets that might have seemed outside Apple's core strengths – not least music, with the iPod and iTunes, and mobile phones,...

reddit this Comments (…) Presented by Jemima Kiss and produced by Scott Cawley guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 August 2011 14.27 BST Subscribe via iTunes Download mp3 Podcast feed URL In a special programme we discuss the career of Apple guru Steve Jobs as he steps down from his role as chief executive. Jemima Kiss, Charles Arthur and Dan Crow of UK startup Songkick share their...

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt's MacTaggart lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival on Friday will be streamed live and exclusively on YouTube. Schmidt will be the first person from outside the broadcasting industry to deliver the prestigious speech in the festival's history. The speech will be broadcast live from 6.45pm on Friday on the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International...

The government is facing a £500m litigation suit from an American firm that was stripped of its contract to develop the country's e-border system after ministers said it had failed to deliver. Defence company Raytheon was given a £742m contract to design and implement the IT system that would allow the UK Border Agency to count every person who arrives and leaves the country. The coalition terminated the deal last...

HP's UK head of the Personal Systems Group – that's the part of HP that Leo Apotheker put on the block last week – has sent around a message for clients and customers, which we'll reproduce here, with our own comments. A message from Paul Hunter, head of HP PSG UK and Ireland. There's no denying that it's been a strange week at HP. I've spent 16 years with HP in the UK and I certainly can't remember a time like it....

As Apple CEO, Steve Jobs 'had great dramatic flair'. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP Why is Steve Jobs regarded by so many as a genius?As CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs was like a French chef: he strove to create great products and had great dramatic flair for presentation. On the product side, he was a pioneer in embracing the techniques of top-class industrial design for the company's hardware and usability for its software....

The Apple logo on an Apple store in San Francisco. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tim Cook has wasted no time in his first day as chief executive of Apple, sending out an email to all staff which indicates his desire to keep the company on track in the future.Team:I am looking forward to the amazing opportunity of serving as CEO of the most innovative company in the world. Joining Apple was the best decision...

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A group of two-year-old horses in training using the Kurt Equine Training System, in Istanbul. Photograph: handout from Kurt Systems Change tends to come slowly in the Lambourn Valley, where both Flat and jumping thoroughbreds have been trained in much the same way for as long as anyone can remember. Lambourn's trainers could soon have an entirely new way to prepare young horses for their life in racing, however, as...

A 3% fall in Apple stock wipes $10bn off the company's value, as investors fret over a future without its visionary leader Tweet this View the Original artic...

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who is standing down due to ill health. Photograph: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images From Wall Street to Tokyo, it's the question on everyone's lips: Will Apple be the same without Steve Jobs? Don't be daft: of course it won't. Jobs is the strategic visionary behind a suite of products that have taken the world by storm and propelled Apple's share price to a level which, briefly,...

Internet hits are the subjects of new documentaries, giving fans a chance to uncover some mysteries. Like, what is 'accoutrema'? Tweet this View the Original artic...

Steve Jobs holds up the MacBook Air after his keynote address at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP Dictator. Tyrant. Genius: Steve Jobs's ferocious perfectionism is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. Very much the entrepreneur's entrepreneur, the charismatic, ruthlessly ambitious former Apple CEO has built a legion of devotees who worship Apple with nothing less than religious devotion...

Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of Apple, to be replaced by its chief operating officer, Tim Cook. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters Without Steve Jobs, can Apple continue to innovate? Yes No View the Original artic...

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The battles seen in the US over software patents could spread to the UK and the rest of Europe if the unitary patent is allowed to come into force Tweet this View the Original artic...

Facebook users will also be able to chose to approve or reject any photo they are tagged in before it goes live. Photograph: AP Facebook has moved to address one of its biggest privacy challenges by finally giving users more control over photos tagged and shared on their profile.Facebook users could previously be tagged in any pictures uploaded by their friends to the biggest photo-sharing site on the web, which hosts...

after complaints from Samsung fansAdvertising watchdog rules Motorola must withdraw claim that its Atrix handset is the world's most powerful smartphone Tweet this View the Original artic...

Apple is expected to release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, cutting profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets. In addition to the launch of the smaller iPhone 4, Apple is targeting an end-September launch for the next-generation iPhone 5, one source told Reuters, confirming earlier reports on blogs and industry websites. The new iPhone – which some have...

Low-profile British company Omnifone is to offer music to BlackBerry Messenger's 45 million users in a deal that it claims will help it overtake Spotify to become the largest music subscription service in the world by the end of next year. Based in Chiswick, London, Omnifone specialises in creating music download services for other brands, rather than marketing its services direct to consumers. Its customers include...

in JanuaryCharge follows investigation into attacks by hacking collective Anonymous on sites including Mastercard and PayPal Tweet this View the Original artic...

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once told the New York Times, "because the people working on it were musicians, artists, poets and historians who also happened to be excellent computer scientists." And the people who bought the first Apple Mac computers were often architects, designers and journalists. One way or another, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, creators of the Apple Macintosh computers in the 1970s, came up with a line of products that View...

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Tim Cook's first challenge as Apple chief executive will be the expected unveiling of the next versions of the iPhone. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple's new chief executive Tim Cook vowed to stick to Apple's "unique principles and values" as investors marked his first day as successor to founder Steve Jobs by selling shares and marking the company's value down by more than 5%, or about View the Original...

Hewlett-Packard is buying Autonomy - and UK startups should be happy. Photograph: Marcus Brandt/EPA The planned acquisition of British software company Autonomy by US tech giant Hewlett-Packard has stirred up a lot of comment. Shadow business secretary, John Denham, said there might be a case for looking at whether certain strategic industries should be protected from foreign takeover, and criticised financial backers...

Antonio Banderas plays a Madrid plastic surgeon, wealthy, cultured and respected; he gives brilliant lectures and research papers on advances in face-transplant surgery. Daringly, heretically, he advocates transgenic treatments from animals to toughen the skin. In his palatial home, he has a private operating theatre where he carries out experimental work on Vera, a beautiful woman he keeps prisoner, who is...

Do you need to copy a heavy file from another laptop without using pen drive or connecting cables? Of course, this can be done by using electronic transfer methods like ftp or online data storage systems. However, these methods are not only time consuming, they often lead to increased data transfer costs. Moreover, what if there is no internet connectivity available in the immediate vicinity? Under such circumstances,...

Here are some Windows 7 PowerTools that will let you tweak your PC and make it more efficient. Ultimate Windows Tweaker Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows 7 & Windows Vista, 32-bit & 64-bit.  This tweaker program does not require an install. You just run its .exe file. The tweaker comes with IE9 support that adds some additional tweaks....

Buried deep inside Windows XP lurks a little-known program called shutdown that shuts down your system in a very fast — but orderly — way. Here's how to put an icon on your desktop that'll shut down your machine quickly: 1. Right-click any empty location on your desktop. 2. Click New, Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. 3. In the Type the Location of the Item box, type shutdown -s -t 0. It's important...

Back in the days of MS-DOS, if you wanted to reboot your computer you either pressed the reset button on your computer case or, as many people quickly discovered, you gave your PC the "three fingered salute". This term, oddly enough never officially adopted by Microsoft despite its widespread use, referred to the Ctrl+Alt+Delete combination that resulted in a restart (called a warm reboot) of the operating system. Ctrl+Alt+Delete...

Perhaps you've heard that the HP TouchPad tablet has suffered an untimely demise? There are a lot of lessons that rival tablet vendors can learn from the death of the TouchPad (and the feeding frenzy it created in its wake). More importantly, though, the loss of the TouchPad creates a prime opportunity for a tablet like the BlackBerry PlayBook. Watching the demand for the HP TouchPad spike to Black Friday--or even...

Different makes of colognes and perfumes all smell different, depending on their odor classification and if they are made for men or women. The smell of fragrances can also depend on the perfume maker or brand. For instance, some brands might focus on specific niches like fruity and youthful blends and others on the more mature oriental type perfumes. Moreover, the market place is big enough to accommodate many...

If you've ever had to deal with the aftermath of having a particularly nasty computer virus, you know that it's a good idea to try and prevent any further infiltrations of your system. At the very best, computer viruses can be annoying and can cause you some difficult in accessing files on your computer. At the very worst, computer viruses can hack into your system and steal your identity, or cause a complete ...

2010, the year of the virus. Or was it? It seems like now a days, the year of the virus is every year, and it just keeps getting worse. Over the past couple of years, the main strings of viruses going around people's computers have been the infamous fake antivirus viruses. These viruses will display messages on your computer, telling you that you have a virus, and asking you to take some kind of action to remove...

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I'm still kind of shocked by the decision of Hewlett-Packard Co. 's to leave your smartphone and arena of paper. It is unclear what will happen to his computer business, as independent consideration for the staff. Thus the focus will be on helping clients manage information, with printing, servers, storage, and some other services. But even the forward-looking statement is a bit cloudy. HP's announcement came a lot...

Anytime yоur hard drive crashes оr yоu lose yоur data, you’ll nееd tо turn tо data recovery tо properly restore yоur information. Data recovery iѕ sоmethіng moѕt computer users arе familiar with, aѕ а majority оf uѕ havе hаd tо turn tо data recovery аt sоme pоіnt іn time. Even thоugh hard drives arе bеcоming bеtter аnd better, thеy arе stіll mechanical аnd wіll alwаyѕ encounter prоblеms. The firѕt thіng tо do, befоrе...

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Steps Toward Making Your Computer "Weirdo-Proof" It's аn unfortunate fаct оf reality, but children arе thе mоst victimized computer users оn thе Internet tоdаy. The gоod news iѕ thаt thеrе arе somе practical steps yоu cаn tаke tо protect yоur children frоm sexual predators, hackers, аnd othеr seedy individuals whо wаnt tо cauѕе harm. This article wіll describe а fеw оf thеm. The firѕt step іn protecting yоur children...

Have yоu evеr thоught abоut networking yоur computers аt home? If yоu hаvе а smаll collection оf computers arоund thе house (and а smаll collection оf computer users), yоu cаn connect eаch onе оf thoѕе computers tо onе anоthеr аnd share data, software, аnd hardware including а single Internet connection. There arе mаny creative ueѕ fоr home networking, howеvеr it's аn ideаl situation whеn upgrading eаch computer tо...

"One Day" tracks the crisscrossing fates of two good-looking people from 1988, when they are newly fledged, happily drunken university graduates, to a point just short of the present, which is to say middle age for them. The movie’s conceit, embedded in the title, is that all of the depicted action takes place, from one year to the next, on a single date, July 15. Being British, the two main characters — their names...