After what seems like about a year of grey, overcast skies, Spring has suddenly sprung in the UK, bringing with it a rash of football in the park (jumpers for goalposts, naturally), long evenings in the ...

I suspect it is. After several years of wild investment and plenty of managementally-challenged dotcoms throwing their oar in, we're now going through a period of "structural realignment". In other words, all the infrastructure that was ...

There's been another of those rather long, awkward silences on the editorial front, hasn't there? Sorry about that; I enjoy writing these little rants and it seems that at least some of you enjoy reading them, ...

Windows XP will, unless the privacy advocates have their way, be with us within a few days and there'll be a review on this site soon after it's launched. As with every other new piece of ...

Hard on the heels of the SirCam virus - which randomly selects a file from the user's "My Documents" folder and e-mails it to numerous recipients - comes the Code Red Worm. This cunning new piece ...

Last week, Psion announced that it was pulling out of the PDA business. The company that was once synonymous with nerdy executives typing fiercely on microscopic keyboards and squinting at tiny screens stated that when its ...

Who'd be a publisher? Particularly an IT magazine publisher. Particularly now. Magazine publishing is a fickle business, dependent largely on the whims of the consumer. Wander into a newsagent and you're presented with a massive range ...

PCs now account for, ooh, a lot* of the world's energy consumption. The US Department of Energy has blamed some of its recent 'brownouts' (temporary power outages in some areas) on the increase in the use ...

The Web. That vast network of fascinating fact, fiction, opinion, sound, vision and communication. Lovely, isn't it? So cool, so fascinating, so addictive, so damned sexy. So... dull? I'm a journalist by trade, and an occasional ...

Here we go again. Technology shares are tumbling and dragging other stocks down with them. Yahoo*, Intel, Motorola - all these and many others are in the news for some reason or other, whether it's job ...

It's been quite a while since the last editorial column appeared on these pages, but I've got a note from my mum, so that's OK. My excuse? Over the last couple of months we've been working ...

"It was Christmas Eve, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a portly, bearded gentleman stuffing yet another new mobile phone into an old sock." Peer pressure is a wonderful thing. ...

In two years' time, we'll all have smooth, full-motion video delivered on demand to mobile phones, desktop computers, notebooks and PDAs. We'll be able to video-conference with friends and colleagues in perfect, 25-frames-per-minute glory. And cats ...

Looking at the development of computers over the last two decades, you'd think that the increases in performance would go on for ever. But until recently, many observers believed that the limiting factor in processor design ...

The world woke up to the potential of computers some years ago. There was a time when admitting to being in the IT industry was akin to picking your nose in public, but that's changed. The ...

It's been a couple of months since the last rambling editorial column, during which time all sorts of bizarre stuff has happened. For a while, all of Western Europe shifted into an alternate dimension, where England ...

What a month it's been. Microsoft has been found guilty of general unpleasantness in business, 'Dotcom' stocks have taken a major nosedive, and IT Reviews has been redesigned. I'll deal with these three in reverse order ...

The general feedback we get from readers about IT Reviews is along the lines of "Easy to navigate, fast-loading, good content, needs more reviews, dull design". All are valid comments, but some explanation of our Grand ...

Regular readers of this irregular column will know that I have a bee in my bonnet about the way that personal privacy is affected by technology. Now there's another potential nail in the coffin of your ...

I confess - I was wrong. In at least two previous editorial columns (here and here), I predicted that there would be some sort of disturbance to the status quo as a result of the 'millennium ...