What a time to go on holiday. Half way through a most enjoyable away-from-it-all break, I caught the news that Microsoft's Mr Ballmer had dropped another bombshell by bidding for Yahoo! (The previous, impressive, but much smaller bombshell was the...

Oh dear, oh dear. Seems like our government is continuing its sleepwalk towards another disaster. What do you mean, which one? Okay, you have a point. Two things in particular. One is that it has a plan to shrink the police force and get...

Avaya, BT and Cisco teamed up to explain the benefits of the IBM Unified Communications ecosystem. This is an ecosystem, like so many these days, in which the participants are both collaborators and competitors. They carefully laid out their...

One of the most challenging, charming, intelligent and irritating people I've ever met is one Adriana Lukas. She was a leading blogger in 2001, long before most people had ever heard of blogging. She understood the ramifications of social software...