It’s very rare to type a phrase into Google Suggest and be told that there are only 205 results. But such is the case for “ransomware.”
Even more astonishing is that ransomware was brought to my attention by the Manchester Evening News today. My daily browse of BBC Online, The Register and ZDNet.com did not bring [...]

Books of academic criticism of a certain movement, whether literary, artistic or philosophical, always seem to start with the same introduction. Say you’re reading about abstract expressionism. The intro will say ‘first, what is abstract expressionism? It’s hard to define the movement in any definite way’. You will now feel a little annoyed that this [...]

The rise of the machines continues apace, and it behoves us, puny mortals that we are, to race into a mechanistic state to avoid being crushed under their metallic robo-feet. On a rare trip into the dragon’s den of R&D, June, our head of accounts, was talking to me of this syndrome of robotisation – [...]

How do you bring web developments like RSS, blogging and Wiki to a wider audience and encourage use even from technophobes?
There are still many businesses using the Internet only because they feel they should be a part of it. But efficient online contact with potential clients in this category is reliant on their embracing the [...]

The World Wide Web Conference 2006 is on this week in Edinburgh and the buzz today surrounded the ’semantic web.’
For many, the semantic web is the real Web 2.0. I’d recommend a read of a BBC report that discusses the developments. For many web businesses the wait is now on to see how ’semantic’ search [...]

This year Big Brother rolled out its uber-trashy all-seeing televisual eyes amidst a welter of warnings – ‘kiss goodbye to your summer’ cried everyone from Heat magazine to BB’s own increasingly cartoonish Davina McCall. There’s a grain of truth in that, at least for those of us who can’t be bothered putting up an [...]

The business world is a tremendously reliant one. I can’t think of any businesses that do not rely in one way or another on a supplier or a customer.
At one time it was the producer who held all the cards. High Street shops would buy perishable goods from farms and would sell based on what [...]

As usual the web is lit up like an indignant christmas tree with discussions about the latest developments in what is usually (and somewhat laughably) called the console war. The big news is Nintendo’s unhinged decision to call their new great gaming hope The Nintendo Wii. The Wii! Pronounced ‘wee’! Oh, the hilarity!
This made me [...]

The announcement has come this week that ICANN has accepted a proposal for the new top level domain .tel to go forward. The domain is sponsored by telecommunications company Telnic and aims to provide users with the ability to contact a company (or a person) by using companyname.tel instead of having to know numbers.
I’ve been [...]

Within the same week, UK travel agent Thomson announces its growing success online and one of the Internet stalwarts Expedia suffers a drastic fall in shares as first quarter results disappoint.
The sector has been very interesting to watch online and I wonder if we are now experiencing the fight back that has been muted for [...]