Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009.

New York Court Dismisses Amazon’s Objections To Paying State Taxes

Remember the Amazon Tax? Back in April, the New York State legislature passed a bill requiring Amazon to collect taxes from New York State residents even though it doesn’t have a physical presence in the state (the normal requirement for retailers). The state got around the physical presence requirement by counting affiliates as part of Amazon. Amazon (and Overstock) filed lawsuits seeking summary judgment against the State of the New York. Yesterday, a New York State judge dismissed those lawsuits, potentially throwing the case into the Court of Appeals.

Celebrating the UK’s computer pioneers

The computer seems the very essence of the modern world, especially as the gadgets we sit before and carry around shrink as fast as they become more powerful.

But if truth be told the computer has had a long and honourable history that stretches back to the closing years of the World War II.

And, say conservations and computer history enthusiasts, Britain played a big part in the development of the modern computer.

“The layman when asked about the introduction of steam power will usually reel off Newcomen, Watt and Trevithick,” said Chris Burton, of the Computer Conservation Society.

“But when it comes to computer pioneers they are absolutely baffled,” he said. “They have no idea.”