Posted on 05 December 2012 by
Greetings from LeWeb in Paris where the Internet of Things is this year’s theme. Can you picture the event with around 3,000 attendees milling about and meeting each other? Now imagine the number of business cards being exchanged… How many conferences or events have you attended where you have swapped business cards with new and […]
Posted on 29 January 2013 by
How can end users transfer software licenses between computers in a seamless and convenient fashion?
Posted on 27 February 2013 by
If there’s one thing that Mobile World Congress 2013 has taught us so far, it is that ‘the internet of things’ is well and truly here to stay. Listening to some of the speakers at this week’s conference has made it clear that the process of ‘verticalizing’ connections is already underway. Steve Girsky, vice chairman […]
Posted on 24 September 2013 by
Sometimes the most effective things in life are not those which attract the most attention. Java, the coding language developed by Sun Microsystems in 1996 and now owned by Oracle, is a fine example of this. Java sits at the heart of one of the most significant technology revolutions of our generation: the emergence of […]
Posted on 23 December 2013 by
As shown by our sliding graphic below, which highlights the differences between desks of the 1980s and today, office technology has become increasingly streamlined in recent years. Today’s ultrabooks are certainly a far cry from the computers of the early 20th century. The Colossus, the first programmable computer built in 1943, was the size of […]
Posted on 04 February 2014 by
As Facebook turned ten years old today, it occurred to me that one out of every six people on the planet now has a Facebook profile. Facebook is now reported to have more than 1.2 billion users out of the world’s 7.2 billion people. This achievement is stunning, particularly when one considers that this ‘social […]
