Category: Technology

  • The trouble with Skype is you can’t rely on it yet

    The Skype outage in the week just before Christmas was an inconvenience to millions of people who use the internet phone service. For up to two days, the service was effectively unavailable to tens of millions of people  – no…

  • My Blackberry is not working

    Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett – two veterans of British comedy – show how they’re still at the top of their game. Excellent parody of today’s tech brands. More sketches at The One Ronnie.

  • Six top trends for business in 2011

    What will 2011 bring for business? What are the significant trends that may influence the fortunes of companies during the coming year, for better or worse? Two questions on many people’s lips; whether you call it ‘predictions’ or ‘trend spotting,’…

  • FeedDemon 4: definitely worth $20

    The developer of one of the most useful programs I have installed on my computers just issued a major update, which I’ve gladly installed. The program is FeedDemon and version 4 has just been released. I’ve been using FeedDemon since…

  • Top 20 UK tech blogs for December 2010

    Tomorrow, December 5, European search engine and news portal Wikio will be publishing the latest monthly ranking of technology blogs in the UK. As has been the case nearly every month during the past two years, they’ve given me a…