Do not underestimate the value of resilience

With BT currently suffering a lot of negative publicity in the last two days with two major outages caused by power issues in two London...

Does democracy matter?

With the EU referendum in the final throws and the likes of Trump or Clinton running for US presidency I am reminded that, while we...

What about the Commonwealth?

When I returned from my honeymoon last year to Australia I was dumbfounded by the number of references to the Commonwealth and Britain in newspapers...

Robots will take over the world

There has been a lot of talk recently on the march of the machines and the imminent demise of jobs across the world as computers...

Tiger Mothers

With a new small person joining our family in the very near future, my wife and I have been discussing our planned parenting style and...

Back to the floor

One of my favourite programs was ‘Back to the Floor’ where owners and high level executives went back to the grass roots of their business...

Robots will take over the world

An interesting debate that is raging at the moment is that robots will not only take over the world, but also take our jobs. The...

It is easy to tick boxes

In a letter in the Financial Times this week SKY, Vodafone and TalkTalk signed a letter asking Ofcom, the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate...

An old idea reinvented

With Elon Musk's recent announcement of a battery for the home, I got thinking about how innovative this idea is and if it could change...

Have Microsoft gone mad?

I am not sure if you have seen a little icon appear on your Windows desktop next to your time on your taskbar, but last...

Mobile networks begin to innovate

I have always considered my iPhone very much like a modern day tricorder, bringing back memories of watching Star Trek when I should have been...

Take an interest and make a difference

With the election looming I am surprised by the lack of interest by my fellow generation and those younger who don’t seem at all enamoured...

Should internet access be considered a utility?

As the House of Lords begin their debate on whether internet access should be considered a utility, the US Federal Communications Commission has approved a...

Reputation is everything

Our industry (telecoms) is one of the most incestuous in world. Our competitors at Fluidata are also our customers and suppliers. This works because business...

The machines are listening

A recent article in the Times around Google and a growing number of people who are turning their backs on the business and going ‘Google-Free’...