There's good news and bad news. Ofcom – the UK regulator has got back to my complaint yesterday about the rip-off Wi-Fi hotspot market where BT and T-Mobile charge a ludicrous £6 an hour for...
In December, I stupidly left my expensive digital camera on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to London Heathrow. I had got it out to take snaps of the huge de-icing machines that had to...
When asked a month prior to the meeting in Geneva this week how it was likely to go, one diplomat closely involved in the talks was unequivocal: “It will be a success.” Really? “Of course,”...
We’re drawing to the end of the two-day IGF formation conference. Chairman Nitin Desai will shortly give a summary of what he thinks has been decided. Mr Desai will then write a report to UN...
We are nearly an hour into the second day of discussions about the formation of the new Internet Governance Forum and so far it has been interesting to see what people made of the discussions...
Thought it was all going a little too smoothly. Apart from Nitin Desai trying to drag the main focus on the first IGF meeting from being about spam to covering instead the digital divide, there...
The IGF meeting started an hour ago – in the same room as the explosive WSIS discussions only a few months ago. So far, all has gone as expected. Chairman Nitin Desai and secretary Markus...
I’m taking a few days off writing the Sex.com book to cover what I believe to be a very important meeting in Geneva. In fact, I write this from a hotel room in Geneva within...
It's an unending mystery to me how mobile phone companies have persuaded entire nations to pay huge monthly bills when only a few years ago people were complaining about the cost of public telephone boxes....
They say “tidy desk, tidy mind” and I have to say I largely agree. But a “tidy mind” is only really needed occasionally. The rest of the time achieving it requires cleanliness bordering on the...