By the end of the 1980s, my teen programming proclivities had given way to more usual youthful pursuits like pubs, clubs, gigs and festivals. I’d decided to pursue a career in tech journalism and in 1991 started work at the IT trade weekly Computing.
Ironically, the magazine was still produced manually, with pages painstakingly laid out [...]

One thing that I am constantly reminded of when we explore the history of technology is how the technology we use today connects with society and how it shapes the world we live in. You don’t need to be a sociologist to be able to see how much the Internet shapes daily life today. This [...]

Steria is forty this year. That’s one year more than me as I’m about to celebrate my own birthday this week, fortunately not quite at the important milestone of middle age Steria is enjoying.
In the past forty years, I would suggest that there have been four key turning points, or inventions, that changed the use [...]

It’s snowing in Britain today.  This may not seem to be particularly interesting or indeed significant, but a few centimetres of snow has brought much of the southern part of the country to its knees by closing airports and shutting down London’s transport system.
Many may consider this a pathetic response to weather conditions that are [...]

Let me start by saying that I know very little of The Cloud.
However, I am aware that Microsoft, IBM, Google, Amazon and others are committed to it. I’ve also attended seminars led by analysts such as IDC who are sure that it will be commonplace in due course. But few care to state timescales.
Last week, [...]