Computer Weekly Editors Blog

August 2011

• What Steve Jobs' change of job tells us about Microsoft

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 26 Aug 2011

Among all the many words published in the last couple of days about Steve Jobs, what stood out for me was some of his own quotes rather than the many "expert" opinions expressed about his stepping ...

• Summer sale opens for UK IT companies?

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 22 Aug 2011

I recently read an interesting footnote to last week's £7bn purchase of UK software star Autonomy by HP. Apparently the deal was helped by a US tax law that puts a punitive 35% tax on any cash that ...

• IBM the big winner as HP shake-up shows polarisation of IT industry

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 19 Aug 2011

Today is proving to be a busy day for IT journalists the world over, after HP - for not much longer the biggest technology company in the world - shocked the industry with three huge announcements: ...

• Phone makers: Please spend $12.5bn on mobile innovation, not on a self-serving patent war

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 16 Aug 2011

Google has become a major player in the mobile phone market in a very short time. Android was launched as an open source mobile operating system only in 2007, and the software was made available to ...