One of my favourite books from 1997 is Ellen Ullman's collection of essays, Close to the Machine. Ullman began her adult life as an aspiring writer, diverted into software engineering for a decade or ...

The encryption protection that stops the copying of e-books stored in Microsoft Reader formats has been broken by an anonymous programmer, according to MIT's Technology Review. Microsoft Reader is the ...

The 21st century is the society of information and new technologies: it wouldn’t be possible without the enormous software industry that is the foundation for it. However, software developers don’t ...