Crazy money: Why the stock market can't measure real value
With earnings calls from IBM, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Yahoo coming this week, what do stock market prices actually say about tech companies? Little of value.
500 words into the future
Unapologetically opinionated views on technology, in the office and out
Simon Bisson
Simon Bisson is a freelance technology journalist. He specialises in architecture and enterprise IT. He ran one of the UK's first national ISPs and moved to writing around the time of the collapse of the first dotcom boom. He still writes code.
Mary Branscombe
Mary Branscombe is a freelance tech journalist. Mary has been a technology writer for nearly two decades, covering everything from early versions of Windows and Office to the first smartphones, the arrival of the web and most things inbetween.
Latest Posts
Windows RT's Achilles' heel: Cloud connections
Have you become used to syncing and opening files on SkyDrive? I'm regularly surprised by how much of that doesn't work (yet) on Windows RT.
Tomorrow's robot world: From cleaners to the cloud
Robots are everywhere at this year's CES. But what does the future hold for our 'plastic pals who are fun to be with'?
Essential business travel tech: Speakers, power cells and backup
As we look forward to trudging 30-40 miles around CES (we walked 37.5 miles at CES 2012 according to the Fitbit I was carrying), we've been turning out the bag of travelling technology to see what we can leave behind and what we need to add from recent products we've examined.
Intel, ARM, tablets and desktop: Where is processing going next?
Internal politics and reaching the limits of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling are hitting Intel hard, but the bigger questions are about computing form factors, computing styles - and physics.
Why is Microsoft contributing to WebKit?
If Apple and Google won't work on supporting the proposed W3C standards for touch in WebKit, then Microsoft will - to get it adopted on websites that will then work better on Windows and Windows Phone.
2013: The rise of the robot cars
Will 2013 see robot cars on our roads? The future is closer than you think, especially with the advances in technology pioneered by the likes of Google.
Into 2013: The year of the 'Carry-Along'
We've all become dependent on connectivity and computation, turning us into tablet- and smartphone-toting cyborgs. How will this trend evolve in 2013?
From Google's mojo to LTE vs fibre: Top 10 technology predictions for 2013
Analyst Mark Anderson has a good record for technology predictions; here's what he says about 2013 — and where we agree and disagree.
If you're asking, 'why does Windows RT do it like that?' The answer's battery life
If there's something that puzzles or irritates you about Windows RT and you wonder why it's done that way, the answer is almost certainly battery life (or viruses).