Yesterday Apple released their latest iPhone software update. I wasn’t as quick off the mark as some of my friends so this morning I deliberately ignored Twitter and other social media so I could make my own mind up without being influenced.
I don’t like doing major iPhone updates as there hasn’t been an update yet [...]

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We’ve been around a while, in fact we’ve been around pretty much since the explosion of the Internet in the late 90’s and during that time we’ve seen our fair share of snake oil come and go. There is one subject that stirs [...]

My enjoyment of all that’s available with technology – a personal account.
The very first record I ever bought was Come On by The Rolling Stones. It was 1963 & I had to stand in a queue to take my turn to sit in the booth at Valences on the Headrow, Leeds, headphones on, buzzing with [...]

There has been a lot of talk recently about privacy and the right of netizens (god, I feel old) to know who has their data, where it is and what is being done with it. Combine this with the growing realisation that for most organisations the secret to success on the web is to get [...]

I’ve been a huge fan and avid follower of the TED series of talks and articles. I find them highly refreshing in world full of sameness and regurgitated clap-trap and I urge you to find a few minutes a month to browse their excellent site and a great place to start is here with Ken [...]

Since mid 2007, Google has been collecting images of almost every house, in almost every street throughout Europe, USA and Australia to provide enhanced imagery for Google Maps.
Last week it was discovered that they have been collecting more than just pictures. Wi-Fi antennas on their cars, trikes and snowmobiles have also been harvesting [...]

Our way of working is far from conventional and with the arrival of the new iPad, our thoughts on how we work are beginning to change further and these thoughts extend out to how we use the web.
Mobile browsing has grown fast over the last few years thanks to the wide availability of smartphones and [...]

For the most part, Connected are an Apple loving company so there was a lot of excitement among us yesterday as we awaited the arrival of Apple’s latest piece of kit. Despite my initial scepticism when it was announced, my opinion quickly changed and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it.
I had the [...]

Having successfully created in 2005 a pretty good web framework to deliver high-performance web-strategies one of our recurring issues is managing the longer-term development including the roadmap. This is not about predicting the future, it’s about inventing the future.
We made the mistake in 2008 of asking our clients what they wanted and the outcome was [...]