Internet Stuff

At the height of the riots in the UK, the PM said we should consider reigning in the power of social networks during a crisis; two weeks later, the matter was dropped.

HP which was founded in a garage in Silicon Valley and for many years was the major IT player in the Bay Area - and/or gave birth to so many others viz Intel, Oracle, SUN Microsystems, Cisco, eBay, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Netscape (once the largest IPO ever in 1995) - has made an offer to buy Autonomy, a UK software solutions company founded in 1996. This would be a sea-change for HP. With Google buying Motorola Mobiles more IT consolidation is bound to happen during the rest of 2011.

I said at the Comment Conferecne at C4 on 6th July 2011 that Nokia, Blackberry and Motorola were all susceptible to a take over bid well Goggle had just snaffled Motorola

Ofcom has published its annual survey into media use

Tim Berners-Lee at the Cern Laboratory, Switzerland released his first iteration of www twenty years ago today