With all eyes converging on Sydney for the 2000 Olympics the technology to run it will be put to the test. David Hellaby investigates. It is 40 years since computers were used to analyse

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IBMs IT infrastructure has a very public face in the form of the official Olympic Web site. By the end of the Games it will have received an estimated 1.4 billion page views or the equivalent of sever

1980 Sinclair Producing everything from electric cars to home computers, Clive Sinclair was the 1980s embodiment of English eccentric genius. While Americas kids wiled away t

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Is it worlds colliding or simply the inevitable? David Hellaby investigates the merging of fashion and computing. Something associated with mice, bugs, crashes and screen dumps is