Reuters: Pulling the plug

A piece posted today on Reuters:  Pulling the plug: Apple’s Watch a boost for wireless charging BY JEREMY WAGSTAFF AND NOEL RANDEWICH   (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s embrace of wireless charging for its new Watch may be a defining moment for a technology that’s languished for years amid competing standards and consumer confusion. Supporters of wireless… Read More »

Reuters: In democracy and disaster, emerging world embraces ‘open data’

[Updated to fix typos] From reuters.com, a piece I wrote on the rise of open data in arguably more interesting, or at least directly impactful, circumstances. In this version I’ve added some links to the source material where available. Aug 28 (Reuters) – ‘Open data’ – the trove of data-sets made publicly available by governments, organisations… Read More »

BBC: The Decline of Self Expression

Here’s a BBC piece which the World Service broadcast recently. This isn’t Reuters content. It’s taken us a long time to get to here, but I think I can safely declare us as, dextrously speaking, back before the caveman. If we had stumbled into your average cave in about 40,000 BC, we might have chanced… Read More »

LinkedIn scam comes full circle, by pretending to be LinkedIn

LinkedIn don’t seem to be taking seriously the extensive use of their network by scammers, as I went on about here. Maybe this will make them change their mind: use of their own company in a scam profile (might not be up long, see screenshot.) The Jeffrey Westwood in question is a stock photo from… Read More »