The weekly news roundup - Friday 23 March

 

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By Alun Williams

Posted on 23 Mar 2007 at 14:57

Tuesday 23 March

The father of Fortran dies
John Backus, the man who led the IBM team that created Fortran - the first widely-used computer language - has died. He was 82 and passed away at his home in Oregon.

Fujitsu unveils solid state laptops
Fujitsu unveils its first laptops to use solid state storage instead of traditional hard disk drives.

Monday 23 March

BT offers MAC hotline for Biscit users
BT Wholesale is to set up a hotline for customers of Biscit to issue the MAC codes necessary to quickly move to another ISP.

CeBIT 2007 video: The Flybook angle-poise laptop
Dialogue uses its CeBIT stand to demonstrate its Flybook VM laptop, due to make its UK debut in May.