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50 Billion devices connected to Internet of Things

Predictions are that 50 billion household devices will be connected to the internet in six years' time. BT, just one example, is currently testing...

iBeacon: Watch out, the invaders are coming from Cupertino

Beacons used to sit on hilltops. They were lit to warn of impending disaster such as, in Elizabethan times, the landing of a Spanish...

Apple versus Google and Amazon

Fortune magazine this week compares Wall Street's view of prospects for Google and Amazon against the consistently undervalued Apple....

Hotel Wifi: Vodafone is cheaper

Why do hotels throughout the world have this delusion that they have a godgiven right to charge for wifi?...

Internet of Things: A new phrase to learn

It's surprising how new concepts creep up on us, almost unnoticed, until we hear a name or phrase that...

Book publishers suffer death by irrelevance

Joe Wickert, sage of the bookworld, objects to complaints that Amazon is killing off book publishers. "Publishers are killing...

Wifi v Cellular: A question for Apple’s Tim

Dear Tim Cook, Why is it that every time you introduce a new iPad its the wifi models that arrive...

Give me a server and I’ll show you the world

This weekend's worrying outage of FeedWrangler, my RSS feed aggregator of choice, is a stunning example of the benefits...