I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. We may never realize how much the world relies on software until it doesn’t work. That’s a ...

Employees in office settings, and on the road as well, must possess basic computer competency to perform their job duties. It is especially important for small businesses to hire office staff who are ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...

Computer enthusiasts, programmers and hobbyists may be interested to know that the discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language, Altair BASIC has been published to GitHub. The ...

Skype has launched version 4.0 of its popular internet communications software for Windows PCs with improvements to the quality of calling and video streams. Joe capitalises on a life-long love of ...

Everyone knows the importance of security. After all, new threats are identified every week. But, in the development cycle, this vital component can sometimes be put on the back burner when it ...