An interesting column in The Economist reminds us that perhaps we’ve missed the point about eBooks. They are not a parallel way to own a book at all, but a gigantic lending system that might yet have huge merits if...

Behold, another example of the tendency of large companies with ample resources to blame the computer in the corner when things go wrong. After UK regulator Ofcom stepped in, broadband company TalkTalk has decided to blame “an error on a...

‘Everything Everywhere’ is among the daftest names ever given to a UK company but the merger of Orange and T-Mobile is bearing small fruit for the mobile network’s user base. They can now share cell signals as long as they...

As international battles of ego go, getting a supercomputer to the top of the prestigious Top 500 List can look like a benchmark way to measure a country’s computing prowess.According to chip maker Nvidia, China has now overtaken the US...

Ray Ozzie said it five years ago when he signed up at Microsoft and now, on his way out the office of CTO, he has hinted at it again in a valedictory memo; the future might not necessarily have a...

When did you last borrow a book? Or lend one? Thanks to Amazon, this simple act of generosity will now be possible for eBooks on its widely-admired Kindle Reader.Astonishingly, something that has been a basic feature of paper books since...

Note to Apple CEO: never open your mouth in an unbidden rant about opponents. People will either think you’re spooked or, worse still, you’re insane enough to believe that wiping out the enemy is a good marketing plan.Jobs has attracted...

After some days with the latest Ubuntu Linux desktop release, I was planning to devote a few graphs to extolling its many virtues.This is not a hard exercise because Ubuntu 10.10 is exemplary, about as good as it gets at...

The human mind is fixated with the idea of connecting dates to expected disaster, the better to make the random comprehensible. A neat example of this phenomenon was the recently rumoured ‘10-10-10’ virus, that didn’t strike at 10.10am on 10...

Is Adobe’s PDF document standard now so riddled with security problems that the time has come to ditch it?According to an unscientific straw poll conducted at the recent Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver, the answer is an emphatic ‘yes’,...