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I'm Rory Cellan-Jones and this is my blog about how technology is changing our lives.My colleague Maggie Shiels reports from Silicon Valley at dot.Maggie. • You can also follow me on Twitter: @BBCRoryCJ
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New beginning

Thanks for reading this blog. As of today, it is moving to a new home, where there will be more, much more. Come and see my new page which, as well as my blog posts, will showcase more of my BBC outp...

12 may 11

The Apprentice does mobile apps

The eyes of the technology world were on The Apprentice last night as the contestants created two compelling mobile apps. Actually, lets be honest, the eyes of London-based technology journalists wer...

12 may 11

MicroSkype - wow and why?

"Wow" and then "Why? Thats what the technology world is saying about the news that Microsoft is paying $8.5bn to acquire Skype. Weve grown used to seeing outlandish prices paid for busine...

10 may 11

What makes a video viral?

Last Thursday I wrote here about a plan to put an ultra-cheap computer in the hands of British schoolchildren in an attempt to get them interested in programming. The blog post - and the accompanying...

09 may 11

A 15 pound computer to inspire young programmers

Its not much bigger than your finger, it looks like a leftover from an electronics factory, but its makers believe their £15 computer could help a new generation discover programming. The games devel...

05 may 11

Spotify takes on Apple

Its a young company, growing rapidly but with an uncertain future and now Spotify is trying to take on the might of Apple. Thats not the line its pushing as it revamps the free version of its streami...

04 may 11

Twitter captures the Osama Bin Laden raid

I turned on the radio at 0700 this morning - and heard the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. I immediately picked up my phone and tweeted this fact - only to be bombarded with messages sayin...

02 may 11

Can Vevos videos make money for music?

Have you ever watched a Lady Gaga video? Hundreds of millions have, mostly on YouTube. So whos making any money out of that? To my surprise - and to yours too I suspect - its a business called Vevo, ...

28 apr 11

Sony goes offline

For millions its been a lost weekend, unable to play online games or stream films or music to their games console. The PlayStation Network has been down since last Wednesday, victim of what Sony will...

26 apr 11

iPhone tracking: creepy or cool?

"Pretty creepy but also kind of cool," is how one young friend described it. He was talking about a piece of software, which looks at a file on your iPhone or iPad and then uses it to generat...

21 apr 11

Digital royal wedding: or #rw2011

Could 29 April give us the biggest live event the internet has ever seen? I’m talking of course about the Royal Wedding, which will attract a huge global television audience. But this morning S...

19 apr 11

Sir Tim turns the tables

Our interview with the webs creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee threw up some interesting news lines. The man asked by the broadband minister to sort out the row over net neutrality told us progress was slow...

19 apr 11

Sir Tim on an open, democratic web

"Geeky but important" - thats what one of the slides said about open web standards at a conference in Oxford to mark the opening of the World Wide Web Consortiums UK office.   You might ...

18 apr 11

Spotify: Not so free as it was

Bad news today for millions whove relied on Spotify for free music. The streaming service announced that it was putting a cap on their access to its huge library of music - they will only be able to ...

14 apr 11

Fujitsu and the final third

Hurrah - Fujitsu has banished the broadband blues from the final third. That, no doubt, will be the reaction in government to yesterdays news that the Japanese firm is planning a fast fibre network t...

14 apr 11

Small ads, big business but not for the local paper

"Wanted - new source of income for ailing industry. Anything reasonable considered." For decades, classified ads similar to that were the lifeblood of local newspapers - or the "rivers of...

13 apr 11

Two tablets to take on iPad

At last they are coming, the products that will give Apples iPad a run for its money. Ive had a glance at a couple of tablets in the last few days, that might just challenge Apples dominance in a mar...

13 apr 11

Up your street - Microsofts take on Streetview

If you live in London you may see a car with cameras mounted on the roof coming down your street over the coming weeks. You are likely to assume that its those folks from Google refreshing the Street...

12 apr 11

Gold plated bills

Any idea whether youre getting a good deal from your mobile phone contract? No, me neither - but according to a group of Oxford mathematicians behind a start-up firm called Billmonitor, we are collec...

11 apr 11

Copyright: The Google question

Imagine it is the mid-1990s and a couple of smart Cambridge computer science students come up with a brilliant new way of searching the web. They drop out of college to try to start a business called...

08 apr 11

Can Facebook win Obama the 2012 election?

Is Facebook now the most important weapon in a politician’s digital armoury? Barack Obama certainly seems to think so. The US president has just launched his re-election campaign, and Facebook ...

04 apr 11

Minnow Microsoft v the Google Giant

Its a familiar story - a scrappy little underdog launches a competition complaint in Brussels about the giant that dominates its industry. Ten years ago it would have been Netscape accusing...

31 mar 11

World Stores - searching for retail success

Sometimes this blog is accused of an obsession with Silicon Valley, at the expense of home grown technology businesses. Its true that the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter make plenty of news - b...

31 mar 11

Amazon puts music into the cloud

It’s huge in books, makes the leading e-reader, and sells a lot of CDs and DVDs - now Amazon has made a bold play to become the biggest thing in streamed music. The big question is how the e-ta...

29 mar 11

Quakebook - a triumph of good will and social media

It started with a call issued on Twitter on Friday 18th March, a week after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Now hundreds of writers, video journalists and editors around the world have come tog...

28 mar 11

Gaming battle: 3DS v iPad 2

Its a big day for gadget launches in the UK, with both the iPad 2 and the Nintendo 3DS arriving in stores. One is a new games console, the other a multi-purpose device which offers games and much mor...

25 mar 11

The social bubble

Back in 1999, it seemed anyone with a daft idea with dotcom attached to its name - say, boo.com - could walk into a venture capitalists office and walk out with millions of dollars in funding. Now, i...

24 mar 11

The 4G auction - a beginners guide

Remember the sale of the century, or was it the sale of the millennium? Back in 2000 the 3G auction raised £22.5 billion for the Treasury and set the framework for mobile phone services in Brit...

22 mar 11

Technology for all ages

When I heard about a project aiming to make technology less intimidating for the older generation, I wondered whether it might be just a little bit patronising. Why should we assume that when you rea...

21 mar 11

Technology for all ages

When I heard about a project aiming to make technology less intimidating for the older generation, I wondered whether it might be just a little bit patronising. Why should we assume that when yo...

21 mar 11

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