Matt Clough

Writer and aspiring journalist

Recent statistics suggest that 82% of people think it's acceptable to watch pirated TV shows, and the growing piracy rates back this up: the season premiere of Game of Thrones was watched illegally over one million times, compared to just over four million legitimate views, with foreign interest in the series being a large cause.

Arjen Kamphuis

Chief Technology Officer of Gendo.ch

Four years ago a somewhat unknown Australian hacker with some new ideas about the future of journalism gave the opening keynote at HAR2009. His site was called Wikileaks and some of us had a hunch that this concept might be going places. We had no idea just how far that would be...

Leslie Harris

President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology

While the EU's "Right to Be Forgotten" proposal is intended to give Internet users more control over their data, critics have charged that the new right would pose significant unintended risks for free expression online.

Rob Wells

Senior director, Northern Europe, NETGEAR

Looking back at the top technology products for the last ten years, they all have one thing in common: they connect to the internet. But sadly these internet-connected gadgets do not always work like a dream - far too often, it can actually be a nightmare experience.

Hannah Lippitt

Journalist who works in digital media.

The groups that seem to be frequently ignored, are the growing amount of serious yet micro startups, which are quietly chipping away building profitable businesses by keeping keen and staying lean and focusing specifically on a niche in the market with no incentive to seek out investor cash.

Mike Foreman

Mike Foreman, General Manager, SMB at AVG Technologies

Cloud offers greater ease of deployment yes. But it also offers a more controllable and flexible means of buying exactly the right amount of software services at any one point in time -- and this "amount of cloud" can be reduced (or increased) and so tweaked to the exact needs of the business.

David Willetts

Minister of State for Universities and Science, Conservative MP for Havant

The government is backing or high growth potential technology sector, giving them the best chance to succeed on a global scale. Missions such as the ones launched today will play a vital part in making sure that we can export our exciting innovations abroad, helping to boost the economy and support business.

Danielle Lowe

Student journalist at University of Kent

#thingsworsethanrape. That's right you read it correctly. This is not the kind of thing that victims of rape should have to deal with and read. It is the kind of thing that so many members of society should be protected from, because even if it doesn't directly affect you it may affect somebody you know.

Louisa Leontiades

Entrepreneur. Analyst. Author. Part Greek. Geek. Woman.

Back in the days when I was experimenting with ways to reach my customers online, I implemented live chat functionality on my website (back then there was only one). I admit, I was really quite excited by the idea of talking to my prospective customers live.But eager is as eager does and my buoyant greetings were on many occasions knocked back.

Planet Ivy

News for the bored generation

was laughed at in school for being the last to complete Goldeneye. Reason being, I was determined to get at least 10 headshots before completing each level. Nowadays, a certain amount of headshots is quite a common prerequisite for unlocking more points/trophies in most shooting games.

Andy Cotgreave

Senior Product Consultant, Europe, Tableau Software

There's a reason why 'Where's Wally' is so effective and enduringly popular. The human brain is evolved to use colour, shapes and patterns as catalysts for cognitive recognition. These originally enabled us to spot threats in the environment; now they enable us to spot trends and sequences in charts more easily.

Kester Brewin

Teacher and writer living in London

Using Google Glass to 'gamify' education may, in the short term, lead to lessons being more entertaining - children always love screen-time, any parent will tell you that - but my experience tells me that it won't lead to greater understanding and greater educational empathy with the deep ideas being studied.

Jonah Berger

Author, 'Contagious: Why Things Catch On'

Why do some videos go viral? Turns out it's not luck or chance. There's a science behind it. And it's not about cute cats.

Dan Weisbeck

CMO and Head of Product Strategy at Netbiscuits

A good mobile website must be optimised for every possible device, embrace context in order to satisfy all user requirements, and serve a compelling user experience for all device functionalities.