To my shame, I missed this when recently screened on BBC, but a friend alerted me to this timely TV mini-series about surveillance culture, who having listened to tireless ramblings in the past on my foresight on ID card technologies, was suddenly realising ‘tomorrow really is nearer then he thought’. Not being good with the [...]

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Or is it just an oncoming train of confusion as the rich content wars loom ever closer in the realms of the ‘personal web’? Nokia and Microsoft have signed a deal to ensure SilverLight, Microsoft’s touted Flash-killer app. Microsoft targets the mobile web Microsoft’s Silverlight Coming on Nokia Smartphones Reminds me of a similar struggle [...]

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For anyone who has ever moaned about their home connection speeds – generally it is in relation to downloading some dodgy film which having spend the night downloading, only to spending the next evening realisng what a lot of crap it really is. Well for all you film buffs out there, help is at hand. [...]

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There has been a lot of discussion about the role of ‘cloud computing’ and seeing the PC as some kind of dumb-terminals accessing network software or documents – almost reversing to the way mainframes worked in the 70’s, but now on a global scale. It will change the nature of personal computing, to follow you [...]

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