Skill Zone News issue 44
Do you remember what you were doing on 12th August 1981? To help jog your memory, episode number 2125 of Coronation Street was being shown on TV, in which "Gail sees Glenda fondling Brian's muscles at the garage". Such innocent times.
30th August 2011
PC celebrates thirtieth birthday
On 12th August, the PC celebrated its 30th birthday. Few would have imagined that thirty years later we'd still have the same basic shape box and still refer to the hard disk as the "C Drive".
Courts swallow Apple's tablets
How free is a free market? Apple has been visiting European courts seeking injunctions against the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, alleging that the Samsung tablet violates its "Registered Community Design rights" in the iPad.
The self-robbery trojan
The criminal fraternity is forever thinking up new ways of parting us from our hard-earned cash. The latest trick you need to be beware of is the self-robbery trojan.
Is this headline a literary work?
In a complicated judgement, the Court of Appeal has upheld an earlier High Court Ruling that a headline to a news article is intellectual property, and UK news aggregator sites require licenses if they wish to scrape headlines from news publishers.
A joke for modern times
It is said that there are few new jokes in the world, just old ones updated. But this year's winner of the Funniest Joke award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is surely a joke for modern times.