There's some fierce debate going on about the demise of HMV today. Many will blame the rise in digital downloads, the fall in physical formats and HMV's failure in adapting their business model quickly enough.

I can't help thinking, however, that one of the other, understated, reasons behind HMV's...

In what has been a turbulent year for British retail, the high street was dealt another mighty blow last week following the announcement that electronics giant Comet was going into administration.

My fondest memories of Comet were going in to watch the giant wall of TVs. Dependent on what...

Since we have had the ability to run our lives from the palm of our hand, people have been campaigning for phone and internet connectivity on the Tube. After a period of badgering, TfL bowed to pressure and partnered with BT to trial a WiFi service at Charing Cross station...

Digital cameras are wonderful. The speedy evolution of technology in terms of increased quality and expanded internal capacity (as predicted by Moore's Law) is mind-blowing at times. But like everything else in this world, cameras and camera phones have their place. That place is not a sweaty, excited,...

For years, doctors and employers alike had written off 'really bad period pain' as a fad. It was an excuse used by exercise-shy teenagers in schools across the world in an attempt to escape the trauma of running around a muddy rugby pitch in the freezing cold. I was guilty...

For better or worse, the notoriety of the internet stepped up a notch last year. Civil unrest was a common theme in the news - not just here in the UK, but throughout the world - the US had the Occupy movements, we had 'the riots' and of course, Arabic...

The internet is in crisis. Wikipedia closed their doors to visitors last Wednesday, in protest at SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and in an almost perfectly-timed, plot-twist-shocker, the US Authorities pulled the plug on file-sharing hub MegaUpload. We are now amidst a full-on war between the US Government and web...

Michael Gove, UK education secretary, has finally done the right thing, and realised that IT education in England is ''demotivating and dull". Even better, he's gone one step further and announced an overhaul of the IT National Curriculum, which will focus on web design, computer programming and computer science to...