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iBook of Jobs

September 2, 2011

UPDATE: On the 5th of October 2011 Steve Jobs passed away after suffering from pancreatic cancer. While calling Jobs a genius may be a stretch, he was certainly an innovator whose vision not only turned Apple around but made it into the world’s leading technology company. This week marked the end of an era in … Continued

The Personal Computer

August 17, 2011

By Horizon Web

Almost exactly 30 years ago, IBM launched the ‘PC’, it wasn’t the first Personal Computer but, helped by Microsoft’s software and Intel’s processors, the IBM PC became the dominant Personal Computer in just a few years.

Amazon Cloud Bursts

April 23, 2011

By Horizon Web

Hailed, somewhat naively, as the future of computing, Cloud Computing has taken off apace. However with Amazon’s EC2 Cloud suffering a 36 hour outage recently, it has once again begged the question, is Cloud Computing the future, or the past?

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