Matt Frei visits a cyber cafe just outside Tokyo, where some homeless young people are choosing to live in the tiny cubicles.
Page last updated at 09:22 GMT, Thursday, 3 July 2008 10:22 UK To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers. That statement may surprise you, since most people interested in computers have strong feelings
VIEWPOINT By Kulveer Taggar Chief executive, Auctomatic For the past year, Kulveer Taggar has been writing for the BBC about his time running a start-up company in Silicon Valley. After twelve months of hard work, he has struck gold. His company, Auctomatic has been sold for millions of dollars. He explains how the deal happened. A month after announcing the launch of Auctomatic.com, my business p
Kulveer Taggar moved to Silicon Valley in California after graduating from Oxford and working as an investment banker. His start-up is now getting ready for business, but as his third report suggests, life in the Valley is not just about work and long hours. There has been a major change in our company. We have merged with another start-up, run by Patrick Collison, who is now the technical lead of
Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and it remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads. The CD was jointly developed by Philips and Sony and the disc has also become a key storage method for computer users. The first
Last Updated: Thursday, 19 July 2007, 18:07 GMT 19:07 UK It could be a case of game over for draughts - scientists say the ancient board game has finally been solved. A Canadian team has created a computer program that can win or draw any game, no matter who the opponent is. It took an average of 50 computers nearly two decades to sift through the 500 billion billion possible draughts positions to
England's strategy for teaching children to read could be overloading them with superfluous words, researchers have suggested. The strategy recommends teaching them to recognise 150 words initially. An ongoing study at the university of Warwick says 100 will do to read most written English, including books intended for adults. Far fewer phonic skills than in the official strategy were needed to un
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