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This is the prime time of the year for forecasters and computer system security -- and after a year of hacks, Trojan horses, love bugs, denial of service attacks and other types of nefarious break-ins, the experts are predicting a progression to a mo...

Bermuda-based companies Ignition and Fort Knox are sitting on the cusp of the application service provider market (ASP) revolution. While I'm sick and tired of hearing all the mouthpieces of the world declare this and that as the next "revolution'' i...

IDC researcher Mark Levitt likens e-mail to "A heavy rain'' where "escalating e-mail usage can be a blessing or a curse depending on how prepared we and our environments are for them.'' For all those who dread to log on in the morning to collect the...

As I live in a small village in France with very few chances to watch movies in English I'm anxiously awaiting the time when I'll be able to download videos whenever I want across the Internet. For a glimpse of how far along the technology is for mos...

James Martin, the Island's live-in technology guru, must be a very happy guy these days. A spin-off company from Mr. Martin -- suitably called James Martin & Co. -- has had an injection of $191 million in funding and has been relaunched as Headstrong...

The subject of technology and especially the Internet tends to dominate conversations and the media. It's as if somehow we've all found a new saviour for all the ills that beset society. And those involved in the sector, from the programmer to the In...

This is just to warn you. There could be a snooper programme in your home or work computer taking snapshots of every site you visit. And the programme could have been placed there by a suspicious spouse or employer. So watch what you do -- or you cou...

From my experience, customer service is a game of potluck on the Internet. Some companies are great at it, others are so-so while the rest are simply terrible. In the fantastic group is Master Lock Co. I brought over a combination lock to France that...

A recent study finding computer-based learning in the classroom doesn't seem to improve reading test scores -- and by implication learning -- will serve as ammunition for those who demand that schools "get back to the basics'' of teaching. While the ...

A furore has broken out over the call by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for countries to cough up some dough for supporting its administration of top level country domain names like ".bm'' for Bermuda or ".uk'' for th...