It's hard to imagine a time without Facebook, but believe me, it existed - I was there. It was a time when everyone strived to have smaller mobile phones and Saddam Hussein was still hiding in a bunker clutching a bag of Funsize Mars Bars and a copy of Nuts...
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DiRT Showdown comes from the newly created Codemasters Racing Studio. The publisher now has some of the best selling racing games on the market, notably the BAFTA award-winning F1 2011. The DiRT games legacy started with late Colin McRae series of rally games - great realistic rally simulations. It progressed...
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The word "Google" is no longer just a brand name, it's also now a verb recognised in the English Dictionary. The reason for its new meaning is that we all, without thinking, now type the name of a product, company or individual into Google in order to find out a...
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Now that the huge hype created over the Facebook IPO has given way to more practical and analytical thinking, it is time to take a closer look at the tech IPO scenario. To begin with, one needs to assess whether ventures like Facebook and Groupon who have already treaded the...
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The 2012 CIO Survey published last week by marketing research company Harvey Nash PLC, has found that seven out of 10 technology leaders believe they are missing vital skills as a result of low representation of women in their teams.
Whilst many companies are beginning to understand that gender...
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It is so frustrating to see ministers appearing to be backtracking on the introduction of tighter security measures for customers using internet and social media sites.
Over the last few weeks there has been an on-going debate in the media between ministers and the internet providers on the proposal...
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Have you ever wished you had access to experienced startup advisors that could help you with what you're trying to achieve?
We've all been there - working on a project of some description - at some point one of the inevitable questions pop into our heads:
- Am I...
Too many businesses are ignoring mobile. While up until now many companies have 'got away with it', this situation is becoming increasingly untenable. Over a third of the UK adult population now use smart phones, with a similar percentage in the US, and the market is growing existentially.
The Web...
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Over the last ten years, the human element has become more significant than ever before in the enterprise IT space, a trend that will continue in the coming decade. Enterprise communications and collaborations will continue to evolve, and the consumerisation of devices (also referred to as the Bring Your Own...
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Paul Woodward is the primary school head teacher that hit the headlines recently for speaking out against parents who allow their children to sign up to Facebook despite being underage. He estimates that at least 60% of the 270-plus children at his school in the Forest of Dean have access...
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We often hear about the Technological Singularity: The moment when machine intelligence becomes better than human intelligence and the biological transcends into the digital world - ideas popularised by authors such as Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross. But a new type of socio-cultural Singularity has been waiting in the wings...
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All eyes on Friday were on the Facebook IPO with analysts and investors still undecided about whether it makes sense to value a company with revenue of under $4bn at $104bn.
And one of the key questions is how Facebook will increase the amount of revenue they earn...
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I was giving a presentation recently when I asked "What's the most digitally advanced country in the world?" The answers I got ranged from Japan to Sweden to the US. Everyone looked pretty surprised when I said Kenya.
And yet while the West has been trying to...
As sunshine starts to peek through and welcome us into summer, I look to the fluffy white clouds above. A beautiful sight. A warm and reassuring image. We instantly associate those little swirly friends with blissful connotations.
The big tech companies choose their words with precision. Computers were boring....
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PS Move title Sorcery was first unveiled to the world one E3 many moons ago, it was just to demo what the move can do, so the inherent child like look was understandable but it didn't have me too interested.
Fast-forward to now and Sorcery is available for pre-order...
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The Vox eReader is an attempt by kobo to bridge the gap between e-readers and tablets, but there are a few bricks missing in this bridge...
There is little doubt that the Kobo was designed and marketed with women in mind -- and with...
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It might seem hard to believe but the mobile phone was first introduced to the UK in 1985. Just 27 years later and the device that we now love is hardly recognisable to those first Motorola handsets. And it's not just the size and battery life that's changed. Let's face...
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In the same week that Google Analytics used Tweets to predict that London Mayoral election incumbent Boris Johnson was holding a four-point lead over long time Labour rival Ken Livingston, IBM also rolled out a law enforcement analytics package aimed at helping to predict and ultimately prevent criminal and terrorist...
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All of the UK's mobile phone networks run a system of filtering to keep web-based adult content away from children who access the internet via a mobile phone handset. The policy was first introduced voluntarily back in January 2004. It is still in place as a voluntary measure....
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String physicists assume that energetic pieces of threads are the keys to quantum gravity and to everything else of our perceived reality throughout the universe. The basic elements of this theory are "strings" or membranes, i.e. subatomic one-dimensional energy threads and built areas. The vibrations of these strings generate everything...
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