Just time for a quick entry today. The funniest thing ever has happened on the Internet. The UK Government has issued a guide to Twitter (http://twitter.com) use for the Civil Service (Government...

Kazaa has decided to join Pirate Bay in becoming a legal peer to peer service. This raises interesting questions for moralistic pedants like me.

The full details of the story are here...

Yet another report suggests that marriages are splitting up and people are blaming the Internet or Cyberspace for their real-life troubles. There's an account on British newspaper the Guardian's...

I can't forget that because I didn't know. Thanks.

Maybe that 5956 excludes BBC employees?

It must be about 15 years since I was standing on a boat in Los Angeles at a press party, talking to a computer executive from the States. I don't remember his name; he'd had a couple of drinks by...

I've been reading about VNUNet's choice of the top ten most disappointing technologies - stuff that really didn't deliver. I'm sitting here typing with a wireless keyboard and mouse talking to my Mac...

This is going to be a high-risk blog entry, I know. But I'm in the UK, it's 1 April at eight minutes past ten in the morning and so far we've had no reports of mass outbreaks of the Conficker virus....

This is excellent. A map of Britain in which the forthcoming extra-fast Internet is highlighted. It's here...

Here's a worrying trend - people are pretending to be other people on the Internet and social networks.

So far, so incredibly well-known, predictable and not at all surprising.

What is perhaps...

So the analysts are saying computers are going to decline in volume shipments this quarter, for the first time in ages. I'm not surprised. The circumstances are probably worse for the IT industry...

This is the sort of thing that annoys me intensely. Our Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Lord Davies of Abersoch, has been asking the good people at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

That's not quite what I meant. My daughter has a Sony laptop. If she loses the power adapter, as she did once, can I take the one off my Samsung and plug in with that? Can I heck, it doesn't fit,...

Sometimes you see a story and it surprises you. Sometimes it seems like the obvious thing, for many people. And sometimes it concerns something you'd been talking about for months, and why on earth...

UK readers will be well aware that in about a month's time - 13 March - it's what we call Red Nose Day, or Comic Relief (http://www.comicrelief.com) Day, in the UK. This is when many people go...

President Obama - I still like saying that and I'm not even in his continent (OK, a little bias there, you may disagree) - is of course to be applauded for his decision to launch a root and branch...

Over in the UK the Government has issued what it's calling the Digital Britain Report. There has been a lot of reaction. Essentially the idea is that everyone should have broadband in their house by...

I've been watching the blogosphere or whatever we're calling it with interest for a fair while now. Not because I think it's going to take over from 'proper' journalists like me; I have 20 years'...

I've been writing in the UK's Guardian newspaper about the prospects of 3D in the television world. There was some excitement at CES about the new technology (I say 'new', I'd seen demos in 2006 in...

Reports just in suggest that a couple of manufacturers are about to launch televisions with the capacity to view films immediately built in. At least that's what the confusingly-worded news report...

OK, a few points about this undoubtedly interesting technology story in which television is going into 3D. I'm writing about it for one of the National Press in the UK so I can't go into depth but...

Here we have it - only days after it emerged the the European Union was censoring an image on Wikipedia it's changed its mind...

It's official - the computer mouse is 40 years old today. Good grief I feel old, I'm older than the earliest mouse. That's somewhat sobering.

The first mouse was made of wood. It was much, much...

There's the start of a cult of the personality thing going on in the UK technology sphere. Traditionally people have done their research on a gadget before buying it by remarkably old-fashioned...

This is unusual. When I started as a journalist in the late eighties it went pretty much without saying that some territories would be ahead of my own home in the UK for technological take-up....

It's happened at last. Someone has come unstuck because of the contents of their blog. And, relief of reliefs, it's not me.

I should explain. Among my activities as a journalist I offer media...

The news that a couple has split up because the man was having an affair with someone else playing Second Life - not that they'd met, you understand, they were having this online thing - and the wife...

The fact that Hewlett-Packard is taking its netbooks more seriously is to be welcomed. A while ago I was going away and my laptop broke down; armed with my existing 3G dongle and an Asus eeePC I was...

I'd like to start today's blog with a big hello to the British Government. I say a big hello although they won't be watching everything I type just yet, that's going to be a little later. They're...

I've written about broadband speeds twice lately. Never being one to quit while I'm ahead, here I go again.

Yesterday I looked at the forthcoming superfast broadband to the home (or at least as...

It's starting, then. In the UK we're going to follow some experiments I've seen in France and start getting fibreoptic connections to the home for superfast broadband. The BBC...

I think I'm going to start compiling a list of these. Last week we had complaints from people not wanting Apple or Facebook to do stuff they didn't like to their websites - excluding content and the...

I was about to launch into a tirade on the new search engine Cuil (www.cuil.com) but I see one of my colleagues has already done it (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2870.html).

Instead I'll be...

So I'm reading through the online press, as one does, and I come across this piece from the BBC. It reports Gartner as saying that the mouse is on the way out...

OK, it's a public holiday in the UK - we call them Bank Holidays over here. But I'm working on a story and i'd appreciate input from some of you network administrator types over there in the US.
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I'm going on the radio (BBC London) in a few days because in the UK we have a 'National Work from Home Day' this coming Thursday (be sure and quote that to anyone who ever tells you Americans are...

Walking around the Digital Summer event in London last week a number of things became obvious. First, everyone wants the sound to come off their iPod and into the world of speakers. Second, people...