I flew around Europe quite a lot during my years as an underwriter. As every business traveller knows, being among the workplace jet-set adds up…

A lot of people, even a lot of French people, have forgotten Minitel. In the early 1980s, before anyone elsewhere had even heard of the word ‘internet’…

The question Who will win the fight to control smart-follow capacity? was posed this week in another insurance publication.

A long time ago, when they didn’t need to have numbers and special characters, one of my favourite passwords was GRIBNITZ.

Something remarkable happened in Estonia after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Across the tiny Baltic nation, the governance of …

The names Pets.com, Webvan, Boo.com, WorldCom, NorthPoint, Global Crossing, MP3.com, and PeopleSound may ring vaguely familiar to people …

Years ago, when only academics and spies had email, I went to visit my pen-pal in America. He was a nice enough guy, but it was his father…

A few weeks back, I introduced my boys to the ultimate manna of geeky teenage big-screen nostalgia: Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

At school we played billes, but it was tough. One kid always had a bigger, stronger marble which would more or less guarantee he could…