Opinion

Opinion

• Government launches single government website prototype

  The Government has launched - its live now - an early prototype of a single Government web domain, that's aimed at making public services easier to use. The site, named alphagov, was recommended by Martha Lane Fox in her review of government digital...  Continue Reading

• Apple devices helped to make the Mac the digital hub, now it wants to put the hub in the cloud

  Am I the only one who thinks there's something ironic in the pronouncement by Steve Jobs at Apple's WWDC that the PC and Mac are being demoted from "digital hub" to "device"?  Continue Reading

• Imperva warns of new threat: Search Engine Poisoning

  The latest threat on the web is SEP. It's got nothing to do with Sepp Blatter, despite what you might be thinking - it stands for Search Engine Poisoning Imperva has produced a report on SEP, but unfortunately, it's so long-winded and difficult to ...  Continue Reading

• The Outlook for SMS marketing could be a Wiz, says prince of Dynmark

  Oscar Jenkins, chief executive at Dynmark, says the mobile operators could make a lot more cash out of SMS if they had a half decent message manager. How complacent are the buffoons of the mobile phone industry? They unwittingly created a brilliant...  Continue Reading

• HMRC launches new task forces

  New task forces to tackle tax dodgers have been announced by HM Revenue & Customs. The first will focus on the restaurant trade, targeting businesses in London over the coming weeks.  Continue Reading

• Avaya to go public? This is no rumour

  The Wall Street Journal is this afternoon reporting that Avaya is to go public in a $1bn IPO as soon as next week. The vendor was delisted in 2007 when it was acquired by venture capitalists TPG Capital and Silver Lake Partners, and it is thought ...  Continue Reading

• Ovum to Apple: You took your time with iCloud, didn't you?

  Apple took its time with iCloud, didn't it, says Ovum analyst Mark Little. Good, he says, it's all the better for it. But don't cock things up by using MobileMe. It its current state, it's a donkey. It's not easy to make it in the music business.  Continue Reading

• AdGent lets you take pictures of things and rate them. Why? They don't say.

  AdGent Digital is an iPhone app that allows you to rate things. You take a picture, apparently, and rate it in 140 characters. (Whatever happened to the days when a picture painted a thousand words?) Anyway, in the spirit of things, I'm going to ...  Continue Reading

• HSE introduces new arrangements

  From 12 September 2011, all reportable work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) will move to a predominantly online system that uses a suite of seven forms ...  Continue Reading

• Mobile payments sector could be hampered by fragmented Androids, says Mobile Money boss

  Though Google's entry to the mobile payments sector could be seen as a shot in the arm, John Milliken, MD of Mobile Money Network is less than ecstatic about this supposed validation. The mobile payment bandwagon is already becoming crowded, he ...  Continue Reading

• Imagine if Wi-Fi was the norm and cable was the new invention

  Recent Ofcom research suggests that mobile broadband is not a viable replacement to fixed line broadband, reports Nick Booth.  Continue Reading

• New iPhone app offers advice to men on the go

  According to a report on NewsBiscuit, the new Glib Advisor, currently available on Android but coming to the iPhone soon, will offer manly friendship to isolated men on the go.  Continue Reading

• Airfares to rise?

  The days - for many - of flying business class are long gone. Indeed many going anywhere on business fly with the budget airlines such as EasyJet and Ryanair.  Continue Reading

• Webby Awards take note: People are people, computers are machines

  The people behind the Webby Awards probably thought it was cool to give the Person of the Year Award to Watson, the IBM computer that beat the world's best 'Jeopardy' players on TV earlier in the year.  Continue Reading

• On the job...training that is.

  A survey just published by the Institute for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University has found that almost three quarters of UK workers think that they could achieve so much more if only they were given more on the job training.  Continue Reading