Don't be confused; this XP has little to do with Microsoft. It's what happened when software developers pushed the best practices of programming to the edge, to the extreme.

Dont be confused; this XP has little to do with Microsoft. It is what happened when software developers pushed the best practices of programming to the edge, to the extreme.

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

PC Authority speaks to Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian king of security software about cutting-edge programming, cyber criminals, pinball, and life in Moscow.

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New Java FX technology joins rich internet application frenzy.

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

And wages are rising fast.

As regular readers are already aware, Im not too keen on books that supposedly teach complex and technical subjects in a short period of time. The reason is simple - 99 per cent of the time it isnt feasible for the average punter.

Dedicated Warner web TV channels on the way.

One of the great mysteries that confronts modern man is his inability to program a VCR, so you would have thought that it was incumbent on manufacturers to make programming a DVD recorder simpler. Unfortunately nobody told the author of the Philips DVDR890 instruction manual. It omits a vital step from the general instructions for programming the device to record a show in advance - it took three attempts to get the feature to work, and only after stumbling across the missing instructions in the section for using G-codes (though I wasn't planning to use G-codes).

Supercomputing Conference keynote maps out the future.

Security overlooked in Web 2.0 land grab.

Security overlooked in web2.0 land grab.

Microsoft has started from scratch with Vista’s networking features — but are they any better than those found in XP? We log-in and find out.

The 50 year old programming language COBOL is the code that won't go away, and can be found at the heart of ATM transactions, ticket purchases and telephone calls

A new interface, drawing engine and programming language, but surprisingly little new power.