You have all heard of the Magic Quadrant.  An industry benchmark by which the, mostly, established players like to measure themselves against each other.    To quote Wikipedia (that repository of all Internet wisdom ;-))“the Magic Quadrant aims to provide a qualitative analysis into a market and its direction, maturity and participants, thus possibly enabling a company to be a stronger

The world is in a very weird place. After having read some research (http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1023-financial-tyranny) about how we have all been hoodwinked by the US Fed to the tune of $26trn ( yes  -  that is trillion not billion ) I am beginning to wonder whether we aren’t all on the set of some giant Truman Show (without the great weather and white picket fences

Finally it seems … the penny has dropped.   Passwords are a poor substitute for real online security.   There is more and more ‘chatter’ about it.    Robin Henry writing in the Sunday Times on New Years Day talks of the end of ‘password hell’ invoking solutions in the pipeline from the Web Gods – Apple and Google.  The talk is of new biometric solutions such as

I am constantly amazed at the lassez faire attitudethat the majority of businesses, large and small, have about their onlinesecurity.  Those that require their users / members to log onwill provide a user name and password log in to verify their identity – andthat’s it.  I suppose that if the large players like Amazon andiTunes can get away with it then the smaller guys think that’s

There are so many pundits out there who have finally jumpedon this bandwagon.   But letsbe honest,  five and a half (or is it now closer to six)  billion people,  can’t be wrong – the mobile revolution isfinishing its transition from what have been predominantly voice services to broad-band data services.  The devicesthat we used to just talk on are now full blown