Tech titans from both sides of the open/closed divide? The biggest science experiment in history? Scary robot spin-offs from The Lord of The Rings? ZDNet UK presents the best of its 2008 video content
Two historic British computers, the Manchester Mark 1 and Edsac, went live 60 years ago next year. Both systems were the immediate forerunners of the first commercial systems
Last year Dialogue Box showed that radiation could affect data-transfer rates on solid-state disks. How does the latest generation of products stand up to a similar zapping? Rupert and Charles don the lead-lined lab coats…
After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dot-com crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Bruce Lawson