The BBC's new series about invention (The Genius of Invention, Thursday 24 January at 9pm BBC2) is yet another chance for us to revel in our inventive past. Once again we'll be reminded of the Victorians and our modern characteristic to invent and failure to commercialise.

Facebook's announcement last week...

Just about every website and app these days uses crowdsourcing to magic up 'what's best' and this is a terrible mistake.

I started working with the internet in the 90s when there was a handful of 'web sites' (yes, it was two words then) and the few of us that...

Of course, many of us already do but we're still in the minority; in 2013 shopping through mobile phones will become a mainstream activity. After many false predictions, 2012 really was the year of the mobile device.

Back in March at the world's largest mobile technology event at the GSMA...