The holy grail of user-experience is to design something that is inherently unobtrusive, without needing a learning period, but very few new pieces of technology achieve that.

Nowhere do the hopes and fears associated with consumerisation of IT come into clearer focus than in the app store. Apps make the world go 'round. "There's an app for that" has become the motto for every aspect of waking and sleeping life. And enterprise apps run our businesses.

All Internet debates are focused on one thing: whether the eigth version is good for desktop computers and laptops or not.

A US-based software developer has been caught outsourcing his work to China for less than a fifth of his six figure salary - while he spent his day br...

To be a device manufacturer in today's marketplace can be brutal. Increased competition from new players on the world stage have a commoditizing eff...

Apple has finally launched a long-awaited update of iTunes. iTunes 11 is available to download from Apple's website or from the Mac App Store. T...

Children growing up today are past masters at mobile. They're weaned early onto digital, their little minds soothed, calmed and cajoled with touchscreen time. As parents, we marvel at how quickly mere babes in arms master the swipe, double tap and pinch zoom.

I think the Razr will be a big seller this year. Skinny has always been fashionable.

In 1993, a friend and myself sat in our respective apartments in Boston MA and started a company making application software that used this thing called the Internet for collaboration.

UPDATE: A new version of Firefox has been released which fixes the problem. An upgrade of the Firefox open-source browser has been pulled after 24 ...

A staggering 21 European languages are facing 'digital extinction', according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Manchester’s Nat...

Cast your mind back five years ago. If you work in media, marketing, business or tech, you'll no doubt remember a debate that raged in blogs, board rooms and bars after work. Was there really a business case for the then new-fangled craze of Social Media?

The civil damages regime in the UK needs an overhaul to stop software theft harming the economy, innovation and future job creation.

The message to employers is serious. Tools like LinkedIn make it easier to find people with skills to hire, but there is a cultural shift in the behaviour of people who are not used to rigid hierarchies any longer. Young people will not enter the workforce and submit to the rules being just as they always have been.

Tthe reasons for any foreign ICT organisation to enter Brazil are compelling. Brazil is presently the seventh largest market in the world, with $165.7bn spent on ICT in 2010, and expected to become the fourth largest before long. The domestic market for IT is the eighth largest in the world, and only $2.4bn of IT services were exported.

Each year at CES, Microsoft kick off proceedings with the keynote address, and then they have one of the largest areas at the event itself. Well, all that will change after next year. Here is what Microsoft said today...

In the bad old days of computing, in the 80s and 90s in particular, many, many software programs were written by developers who excelled at IT, were very nerdy, not commercially minded and got the product finished and out of the door. It usually was shipped to the customer with a massive thick doorstep of a manual that made you feel it could solve any stumbling block you threw at it - except it didn't. Ever.

In the old days of paper and print, writers didn't need to worry about finding headshots. You had to be pretty famous to have a picture byline. Now even my cat has one. (At least she does until Facebook rumbles her for breaking the humans-only rule.)