BBC Blogs | Technology

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/new_beginning.html

The eyes of the technology world were on The Apprentice last night as the contestants created two compelling mobile apps. Actually, lets be honest, the eyes of London-based technology journalists...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/the_apprentice_does_mobile_app.html

"Wow" and then "Why? That's what the technology world is saying about the news that Microsoft is paying $8.5bn to acquire Skype. We've grown used to seeing outlandish prices paid for businesses...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/microskype_-_wow_and_why.html

Last Thursday I wrote here about a plan to put an ultra-cheap computer in the hands of British schoolchildren in an attempt to get them interested in programming. The blog post - and the accompa...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/what_makes_a_video_viral.html

It's not much bigger than your finger, it looks like a leftover from an electronics factory, but its makers believe their £15 computer could help a new generation discover programming. The gam...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/a_15_computer_to_inspire_young.html

It's a young company, growing rapidly but with an uncertain future and now Spotify is trying to take on the might of Apple. That's not the line its pushing as it revamps the free version of its s...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/spotify_takes_on_apple.html

I turned on the radio at 0700 this morning - and heard the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed . I immediately picked up my phone and tweeted this fact - only to be bombarded with messages ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/05/tweeting_the_osama_raid.html

Have you ever watched a Lady Gaga video? Hundreds of millions have, mostly on YouTube. So who's making any money out of that? To my surprise - and to yours too I suspect - it's a business called ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/can_vevos_videos_make_money_fo.html

For millions it's been a lost weekend, unable to play online games or stream films or music to their games console. The PlayStation Network has been down since last Wednesday, victim of what Sony...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/sony_goes_offline.html

"Pretty creepy but also kind of cool," is how one young friend described it. He was talking about a piece of software, which looks at a file on your iPhone or iPad and then uses it to generate a ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/iphone_tracking_creepy_cool.html

Could 29 April give us the biggest live event the internet has ever seen? I’m talking of course about the Royal Wedding, which will attract a huge global television audience. But this morning S...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/digital_wedding_or_rw2011.html

Our interview with the web's creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee threw up some interesting news lines. The man asked by the broadband minister to sort out the row over net neutrality told us progress wa...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/sir_tim_turns_the_tables.html

"Geeky but important" - that's what one of the slides said about open web standards at a conference in Oxford to mark the opening of the World Wide Web Consortium's UK office.   You might s...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/sir_tim_berners_lee.html

Bad news today for millions who've relied on Spotify for free music. The streaming service announced that it was putting a cap on their access to its huge library of music - they will only be ab...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/spotify_not_so_free_as_it_was.html

Hurrah - Fujitsu has banished the broadband blues from the final third. That, no doubt, will be the reaction in government to yesterday's news that the Japanese firm is planning a fast fibre net...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/04/fujitsu_and_the_final_third.html