E-readers are revolutionising books, but corporate giants such as Amazon are cornering the market.
The population of online communities such as <i>Second Life</i> and <i>Blue Mars</i> is now greater than that of the US and Europe combined.
With more and more of us streaming live video of ourselves online, the meaning of the word "privacy" is undergoing a change.
The internet often goes through bouts of soul searching, but a full-blown counter-reformation could be on the way. If so, then Andrew Keen, author of <i>The Cult of the…
If you were to stop someone you know and ask them to give you a list of all their friends — together with their friends’ friends, complete with their special interests — you…
Social sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo that want to run your life for you are all the rage, but this shouldn’t distract from the strong growth of networks geared to…
There may no be such a thing as a free lunch in real life, but it is different on the internet where companies are falling over themselves to give you free services such as photo…
It is curious how the globalisation of people is happening much faster than the globalisation of goods. While trade talks to cut subsidies on products have been immobilised for…
A few weeks ago a man turned up at my front door, having been guided there by a GPS satellite navigation system on his dashboard. He was a bit surprised when I told him that the…
If 2007 is really going to be the year when the cellphone comes of age — after several false dawns — then the much-hyped Nokia N95 may prove to be a turning point in more senses…
Rupert Murdoch, watch your step. I am coming to get you. I have just launched my own global TV station from my cellphone and laptop. So far, the total audience at any one moment…
This month’s state of the blogosphere survey by Technorati, the monitoring service, was greeted as if it were the online equivalent of the president’s State of the Nation…
The arrival of the three dimensional web — in which participants have their own on-screen avatars — is dismissed by some as a nine month wonder that will fade away once the…
The web revolution that is turning whole industries from music to television upside down has been slow to reach the cosy world of books — apart, that is, from the pioneering…
If you were walking recently on a beach in Puerto Rico and saw a strange web address scrawled along the sand, or if you saw balloons released from a window in Chicago with…
The scene is a Starbucks in Regent Street, London. Two 23-year-old women from Trinity College, Dublin, are doing a five-minute pitch from a laptop to a couple of serious venture…
The late and great management guru Peter Drucker said he wasn’t worried about Microsoft because no non-governmental monopoly had ever lasted more than 15 years. Well, Microsoft…
When two twenty-somethings posted a home-made video on <i>YouTube</i> last week they initially attracted more than 1,3-million views, but they didn’t earn a cent for their…
