Some 300,000 jobs were created in the US last month, according to the US Department of Labour. Many were in computing, management and engineering. Often when an American IT company expands, the benefits are felt in Britain, where many major players have their European HQs. So we should all see the Network + appointments growing …[ read more ]
Yes, the Dark Force is back in town, to bring a new level of atrocity to the browser wars. Darth Vader (Bill Gates to you and me) wheeled out the heavy intergalactic artillery for lest week’s launch of Internet Explorer 4.0 beta. As usual, Microsoft is using muscles instead of brains by leveraging its near …[ read more ]
Do your own an electronic personal organizer? If you do, then you are one of a staggering 1.3 million gadget-oriented UK professionals who have gone from Eighties Filofax to Nineties Pilot or MessagePad. We are spending more and more money on gadgets, toys for the boys and other black plastic electronic things that do some …[ read more ]
Summer is upon us, and with it hordes of family visitors from overseas. Inevitably, this means endless questions about the latest doings of the Royal Family, visits to Buckingham Palace and procurement of mugs with royal faces for the folks back home. This year, tourist season in my London bolthole was opened by the arrival …[ read more ]
Imagine that you live in Hawaii. You spend most of the days surfing and sunbathing, and in the evening you work for a London-based Internet consultancy on the biggest Web project in town. Outrageous? Well, perhaps, but a new bunch of transcontinental telecommuters are set to prove that the New Lifestyle is not only possible, …[ read more ]
It’s official: the youth of today has finally disowned the book. A recent poll conducted by CNN and the National Science foundation found that 77per cent of American teenagers prefer to use Internet for school projects instead of books or magazines. Reading it out, surfing is in. Since high computer usage correlates with the achievement …[ read more ]
Virtual shopping is not what it seems. It’s not a convenience, a cost-saving or modern procurement method. It is anew religion, a passion, a mission for the Internet community. Evidence for this new cult movement is aplenty. Go to any webster’s party and will hear nothing but secure transactions, online catalogues and logistics of delivery …[ read more ]
Have you ever tried to contest a planning permission? Well, I have. Approximately 97 hours later, after filling in countless forms in triplicate, and attending eight meetings in my local council office held during totally inconvenient office hours, I managed to stop my neighbour from building an ugly shed in our back garden.Now fast forward …[ read more ]
Have you ever tried to persuade people online to change their mind on any issue? Newsgroups users will know well the ruthless, critical eye of the online community. Any attempt at propaganda without a solid factual base for your argument will be met with a ‘flame’ going your way faster than you can say’ election …[ read more ]
How can music played in London have them grooving in Peru? asks Cayte Williams logs on to Gaia Live, the cyber-club that has opened a dancefloor on the Internet You’d think only the worst techno-geek would turn their back on a heaving dancefloor to tap into a computer, but now the most hardened clubber is …[ read more ]
