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The manufacture of the Windows Phone has been dead for almost a year and Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates has like many decided it’s also time he moved on. In an interview with Fox News Microsoft's founder reveals he’s now using an Android phone. While Gates did not reveal the exact model he is...

One of Microsoft’s more prominent announcements in 2016 was that Windows 10s will run on ARM processors, breaking Intel’s lock on the Windows platform. However, it has now been further announced that Arm based Qualcomm processers will power the one time smartphone-focused Windows 10 Mobile...

Hi everybody. I have just finished a fourteen hour work shift as all day my company myself included has been endeavouring to help out one of our largest customers who has been hit by the well-publicised worldwide ransom attack on Windows operating system computers. In the foregoing, on returning...

As many media outlets are advising, this week has marked a very large milestone in Internet and IT development with figures being published that demonstrate that more people throughout the world are using Google android operating system devices to search the Internet than any other platform. In...

Hi Everybody. The BBC Panorama program screened a documentary on November 7th in regard to the decrepit state of Britain's passenger railways. A YouTube video of the program can be found by following this link:- https://youtu.be/n3nJ7Ly0yu0d The program demonstrates graphically the conditions...

For those who maybe unaware Pokemon go is a mobile application produced by Nintendo which is now being distributed via the Google Android and Apple iOS systems. The game task players with roaming their surroundings to catch tiny creatures ( said Pokeman). The more Pokemon you capture, the more...

Hi everybody. With Volvo announcing that limited numbers of driverless vehicles will be running on the streets of London next year (2017) on an everyday basis (not trials), the press and media are now turning their thoughts to the effects on personal and commercial transport not only here in the...

Today (25th of February 2016) marked the return of the flying Scotsman traveling under its own power to the city of York where the locomotive is to be on exhibition at the National Railway Museum. It was an occasion that many considered to be an historical day in British rail history and...

Steam enthusiasts here in the UK will once again be disappointed as their heritage rail tours are cancelled being that the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has served the second Prohibition Notice within a year against West Coast Railway (WCR). by removal of the company's safety certificates. The...

Hi everybody. It is being reported by the BBC News that one in ten trains in the UK are now being cancelled due to a shortage of drivers and conductors with the situation getting steadily worse. The train operating companies are also reporting that the average age of a driver has been steadily...

Hi everybody. I know there are many steam enthusiasts on this forum, so I felt I should post this edited BBC News report with regard to the suspension of steam charter services by one of the companies who operate heritage steam on the mainline national network. Rail holidays hauled by heritage...

Hi everybody The operating Systems war between the big three seems very much to be hotting up as we roll into 2015 with Microsoft unveiling yet another new upgrade to its Windows system (Windows 10). Against that the Google operating system continues to gain large-scale support with great...

Having taken three long rail journeys this week (six including returns journeys), the one thing that any passenger travelling on the British rail network cannot fail to notice is the almost constant on-board audio announcements they are subject to as they travel these days . I can accept the...

Train spotters will be banned from King’s Cross and other major stations for security reasons, several sections of the British media have been reporting in recent days. It is being advised that Network Rail will bar spotters from stations on the East Coast main line because they are a nuisance...

Hi everybody Crossrail is a 118-kilometre (73-mile) railway line that is under construction in England. It is due to begin full operation in 2018, serving London and its environs by providing a new east-west route across Greater London. Work on the central part of the line (a tunnel under...