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The BarackBerry – gadget for leading a connected world
To life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness we can now add the right to carry a BlackBerry. Barack Obama has won one of his first presidential battles this ...
Virtual Learning
The Open University has long been at the forefront of developing distance learning. In 1969, it was television, now it is everything from interactive DVDs to ...
Social Media is not yet invisible
With all the stories in the media about Gordon Brown’s appearances on YouTube (see above) and Prince Charles on MySpace, I was reminded of the quote by Clay ...
Yammering on
We’ve been trialling Yammer within our team for the last few weeks and the initial feedback is good. If you haven’t come across Yammer, it’s like a private ...
The Alpha and Omega of Answers
Wolfram Alpha opened for business, or at least beta testing, last week, and promptly acquired an aura of both hype and disappointment. The one thing upon which ...
The Winning Interface
When the Wii first came out, people were uncertain what to make of its unique control interface (the "Wiimote"). The Nintendo DS with its split screen and ...
Digitally Improving Africa
In the past few years we have seen how digital technology has improved the lives of many Africans.
High Speed Breakdown
We've become used to it being there anytime, anyplace and almost anywhere. The answer to every question instantly accessible at the tap of a button, but what ...
Google Books
You have to admire Google. They are applying their own style of disruptive innovation to the book market and in the process could easily do for publishers what ...
Getting a Fix off the Internet
WH Davies’ opening lines of his poem Leisure came to me at the end of another hectic week in which I flitted from e-mail to tweet to blog, hooked on ...
Engaging with the Future
In late October, Barnet Council voted their ‘Future Shape’ model of service provision into reality. Dubbed by the media as the easyJet service model, it’s one ...
The Rise of the Machines
A technological singularity - are we heading for a technological ‘black-hole’?
Making an exhibition of yourself
Many may think that before YouTube, video online was restricted to that of a strictly corporate, or adult, nature. However you’d be wrong.
What's the real impact of Social Media?
Is social media really changing the face of business and public services? Where are the best examples of its use? And most importantly - is there life after ...
Making Universal Service Pay
Ever since Rowland Hill introduced the Uniform Penny Post there has been the idea that communications services should be available to all.
Cloud 9 - Why we should be happy with latest Government IT thinking.
I had one of those meetings the other week that catches you unawares and ends up genuinely changing your perspective on things.
The Windows Mobile conundrum
Clare McKitrick argues the case for Windows Mobile.
Do humans dream of cyborg sheep?
Josh Greenberg is a Cyborg, and thinks you might be too...
Disaster Recovery in the Real World
Charlie Young looks into how technology could be used to in the event of a large scale natural disaster
Superfast Broadband - Who Needs It?
Nick Insley asks if there is a need for super-fast broadband
Blog off!
Carol Chaffer examines why switching off can be a good thing to do...
Personal ERP
Jonathan Peachey looks at Enterprise Resource Planning, for your personal life...