Every morning I wake up to the Chart of the Day delivered to me from Business Insider. There are usually some interesting statistics to look at but nothing truly staggering, however, this morning's, on smartphone marketshare in the US, caused...

Well, that didn't take long.No sooner did I suggest that the political parties should come clean about their plans for IT than the Conservatives do exactly that with their Technology Manifesto. And it's a pretty impressive document too.It's a bit...

How big a part is science and technology going to play in a forthcoming general election?The date hasn't been called yet but already there have been more mentions of scientific and technological research that I can recall. I'm too young...

Google's introduction of Apps was a massive shockwave to the marketplace. For the first time, Microsoft had a competitor with real credibility trying to its business software lunch.The launch of the new Google Apps marketplace has taken Google Apps to...

The news that Apple's contract with developers of apps for the iPhone has leaked to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) appear to have caused consternation at Apple's head office. For the first time, Apple's strict controls on the contracts' contents...

What's Cisco plotting?The company has been dropping teasers for some weeks about an announcement that will "forever change the Internet" and at 3.00 this afternoon (Blighty time), the waiting will be over.There hasn't been so much speculation about a company's...

Here's a contrast with the current shenanigans with the Digital Economy Bill - according to a BBC survey nearly 80 percent of the population of the world thinks that Internet access is a fundamental right.A poll for the BBC World...

The ongoing row about the ACTA treaty has highlighted the differing ways that countries treat copyright infringement, revealing how hard it's going to be to get any sort of consensus.  Take Germany, a country that has a rather unmerited reputation...

Marc Benioff, the ebulliant CEO of Salesforce has been at it again.Writing in Techcrunch, he poses the question; Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?" and sets out his thought on the matter - the next stage from the question...

Talk about a culture clash. CA’s purchase of 3Tera is more than just CA getting more of a foothold into the cloud (if that’s not a mixed metaphor) but shows the difference between two sharply contrasting companies.CA is as old...