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Tales In Tech History: Microsoft Kinect
Some assume the Kinect is another tale of Microsoft hardware woe, but it was both groundbreaking and innovative
Tales In Tech History: AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
Long before Skype or WhatsApp achieved their domination, AIM was the pioneer of instant communications (IM)
Tales In Tech History: Novell
Not many tech firms come from the US state of Utah, but for many years Novell was the bedrock of local area networks
Tales In Tech History: Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum rival and best selling computer of all time, the Commodore 64 was a hugely popular home computer
Tales In Tech History: The SMS Text Message At 25
The text (or SMS) message was once more widely used than mobile phone calls, but its use in recent years has declined in favour of instant messaging
Tales In Tech History: BT And the Creation Of BT Openreach
The debate on Openreach's future has been raging for the past few years, so we thought it was time to look back at its origins
Tales In Tech History: Microsoft Encarta
Microsoft Encarta started life as a CD-ROM based digital multimedia encyclopedia, but the Web eventually led to its demise
Tales In Tech History: Vonage, The VoIP Pioneer
Vonage beat Skype to market but struggled to match the global reach enjoyed by its VoIP rival
Tales In Tech History: Napster
Napster may have been shortlived, but its impact on the music industry was monumental
Tales In Tech History: Myspace
Facebook's last serious challenger Myspace is still going, although much diminished from its heyday in 2007
Tales In Tech History: BlackBerry
Ultimate survivor. The rise, fall, and rise (?) of former smartphone giant BlackBerry
Tales in Tech History: Oracle
The house that Larry built. Oracle is the creation of one of the IT industry's most colourful characters, Larry Ellison
The ThinkPad At 25: How One Business PC Became An Industry Icon
The Thinkpad laptop celebrates its 25th birthday, but how did it become one of IBM's, and now Lenovo's, most successful computers?
Tales In Tech History: Nokia N-Gage
In 2003, at its peak, Nokia tried to conquer the handheld gaming market with a console phone hybrid called the N-Gage
Tales In Tech History: Pebble Smartwatch
The story of the smartwatch pioneer who used crowdfunding to bring its products to market, yet its success proved short-lived
Tales In Tech History: Winamp
Cross platform media player that formed part of the MP3 revolution in the 1990s and early 2000s
Tales In Tech History: ICL, The British Computing Giant
The life and times of a British computing giant that took on the world before falling into foreign ownership
Tales In Tech History: Lotus Software
Lotus Software had the opportunity to dominate the Office sector for the emerging PC market. What happened?
My Journey To Find The World’s Oldest Computer
Kevin Murrell, co-founder of the National Museum of Computing, details how he found and helped restore the Harwell Machine
Tales in Tech History: Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash: The story of a how a widely-used plugin transformed the web before security and usability concerns killed it off
Tales In Tech History: Amazon – From Online Book Retailer To Tech Giant
Scourge of the High Street? How a simple online book seller transformed itself into global e-commerce and tech giant
Tales In Tech History: Windows Phone
Windows Phone is officially dead, but it was much loved by those that used it. Why did it fail and what next for Microsoft mobile?
Tales In Tech History: The Fax Machine
Take that Alexander Graham Bell! Faxes are older than the telephone, as the ability to send images over a wire was invented in 1843
Tales In Tech History: The ATM
As world's first ATM is painted gold to celebrate 50th anniversary, we take a look back at the arrival of cash dispensing devices
Tales In Tech History: IBM’s OS/2
IBM's attempt to regain control of the PC landscape it had let slip in the early 1980s led to the creation of OS/2
Tales In Tech History: Pick Operating System
Best OS you never heard of? Pick OS was initially developed to manage spare parts for attack helicopter during Vietnam war
Tales In Tech History: Cobol
Invented in the 1950s and still around nearly sixty years later. It has been quite a journey for Cobol
Tales In Tech History: ‘I Love You’ Virus
The 'I love you' worm had a devastating impact on computer networks worldwide seventeen years ago
Tales In Tech History: Unix
Unix was one of the most popular server operating systems, but its life has been marred by bitter legal battles