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I've been writing about technology for 15 years, including editing industry magazines Connect and Communications International. In 2002 I co-founded Futurity Media with Anthony Plewes. My focus in Futurity Media is in emerging technologies, social media and future gazing. As a graduate of philosophy & science, I have studied futurology & foresight to post-grad level.

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four steps to combatting cybercrime with crisis management

published on 2012/05/14 by Stewart Baines

As cybercrime runs rampant, reports of major cyber incidents and data breaches continue to dominate headlines and wreak havoc on organizations of every type. These breaches can have a potentially devastating effect on a company's reputation or financial position. Yet ,too many organizations continue to treat these breaches as technical problems that require technical solutions. Here, we offer our best practice tips for dealing with such breaches....

four steps to combatting cybercrime with crisis management

the broadband revolution will not be televised

published on 2012/02/06 by Stewart Baines

TV white space technology is an innovative way of interlacing wireless data communications alongside TV broadcast. Proposed by the IEEE and the Wireless Innovation Alliance, it can deliver very high data rates over extremely long distances with low latency and at low cost. ...

the broadband revolution will not be televised

should software companies be liable for the code that they create?

published on 2011/11/28 by Stewart Baines

Today, software vendors are largely protected from the adverse effects of any software that they write. End-user license agreements are notoriously draconian. These long swathes of legalese are designed to get software developers off the hook. They effectively make users accept that they're running the software at their own risk. It imposes a 'sold as seen' approach, even though the code is, for the most part, unseen by the user....

should software companies be liable for the code that they create?

five ways NFC may change your life

published on 2011/10/31 by Stewart Baines

It has taken a while to mature, but now In-Stat estimates global annual shipments of NFC chips will reach 1.2 billion by 2015. The ambitious prediction is based on the giants of the mobile handset industry incorporate NFC in their smartphones. A wave of NFC-enabled Windows and Android handsets are expected in the coming months and Apple is expected to kick-start the business when it introduces an NFC iPhone next year. ...

Data espionage: a new age of spying

published on 2011/10/17 by Stewart Baines

The recent revelations about cyber espionage - such as the spear phishing attack on Japanese defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the uncovering of Operation Shady RAT - show that spying isn't what it used to be....

Data espionage: a new age of spying