Once the dust settles and we all look back there will be villains, there will be heroes and there will be the benign (like me) that have simply obeyed the rules and survived. The banks, businesses and individuals who have profiteered at the expense of the misery, the idiots that ignored the social distancing rules…
In a world of lock downs and social isolation we all need company, we need to be able to talk, see loved ones, hold meetings and pitch for business. Thank god therefor for Zoom….. As we all hunker down in our homes, Zoom has emerged as the conferencing system of choice, sweeping aside established players…
Not surprisingly it is difficult to find or even discuss positives in an era where people are dying, hospitals are overwhelmed, livelihoods are destroyed and future “look forward to” events are replaced by simply worrying about what further upheaval will emerge at the PMs 5pm call. Things that we take for granted such as food…
Politics. The art of dodging an answer and bombarding the person asking the question with statistics on how devastating all alternatives bar their own party will be….. The news today (and sadly for the next few weeks) is a mix of unaffordable election promises coupled with an underlining need to explain how the other parties…
Ever since 2014, individuals have had the right to demand that search engine providers remove information on them if it can shown that such information is “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant, or excessive”. The so-called “right to be forgotten” was controversial at the time – not least because it is an inevitable clash between the freedom of…
The last couple of years have seen a seismic change in the high street. Many of our well known brands have been forced to use (or misuse depending on perspective) the CVA process or disappear entirely. Whilst it is the well known brands such as House of Fraser, Top Shop etc that have made the…
Remember the dot.com boom? Followed by the dot.com bust? – well apparently not. As the wheels appear to be coming off the wework floatation, isn’t it about time we took stock (excuse the pun) and looked at the absurd valuations that we are seeing of various businesses? Whether it is tech darlings such as Slack…
Garry Mackay On 4 Jul 2014, at 18:00, “Garry Mackay” wrote: Ok so I know that I should just ignore it but this little voice kept saying “go for it” and so with a degree of anticipation I went to Google basecamp and got my first introduction to google glass. First impressions are mixed but…
The debate about net neutrality continues to gather momentum. The FCC watered down approach to permit “commercial reasonable” deals will see the start (albeit constrained) two lane internet. The ability to degrade one service to provide a premium service to others is going to undermine one of the primary foundation stones of the internet –…
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….and achieves nothing. According to the BBC a deal between the ISPs and the internet industry will see a watered down “educational” letter sent to individuals illegally downloading content. All sounds great and the ISPs must be breathing a huge sigh of relief that they have avoided the draconian measures initially proposed under the Digital…
