Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Another step to the Internet of things
March 14th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Over three years ago, I wrote a column about the ‘Internet of things’ and it now looks as if it is starting to become a reality. This week, there was the news that British company Arm Holdings has produced a tiny, battery-operated semi-conductor code-named Flycatcher that will enable a multitude of devices to connect to the […]
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My first visit to the Online Centres Foundation
March 2nd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Almost a month ago, I did a posting about my appointment as a non-executive director at the Online Centres Foundation. At my interview for the position, I explained that, if appointed, i would be keen to meet the staff and visit an online centre as soon as possible and, in the last two days, I have done […]
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The rise and rise of the app
February 25th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
On my iPhone and iPad, I am a a big user of apps – and it ia market which has simply exploded. Apple’s Apps Store now has a choice of over 550,000 apps. It is clocking up around 500 downloads a second and is about to hit the 25 billion mark. The revenue raised will […]
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My new opportunity to promote digital inclusion
February 6th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I was not an early user of the Internet and indeed for a while I really lacked confidence online – as I’ve explained here. But, when I became more familiar with the Net, I became passionate about how it could transform lives, organisations and societies and the desirability of achieving the highest possible number of […]
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How the Internet is impacting news and newspapers
January 16th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
The editor of the “Guardian” today tells his readers: ” .. we’re well aware that, increasingly, you tell us that what you want from the printed newspaper changes as you seek out, or absorb, breaking news from the web, mobile, TV and radio. Half of you now read the paper in the evening, by which […]
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2.4 M visits to my web site in 2011
January 1st, 2012 by Roger Darlington
In the last few years, the number of visits to my web site – which includes my two blogs – has been around 1.8-1.9 M but, last year, the number broke the 2 M barrier for the first time. In fact, in the course of 2011, there were 2.384 million visits. That’s an average of […]
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What have we been searching for in 2011?
December 15th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Google UK has issued top ten lists for search categories in the past year. Check out the Google Zeitgeist here.
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What sort of Internet do we want?
November 24th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
For nine years now, I’ve been writing a regular column on communications issues with particular reference to the Internet. These pieces are for the magazine of Connect, a trade union representing professionals in telecoms and now part of the larger union Prospect. I’ve just contributed my 70th piece and it’s all about the pressures to […]
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Word of the day: contestation
November 18th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I’ve spent the day at the University of Leicester attending a seminar on digital literacy where I made a short presentation on the regulation of content with the convergence of broadcasting and the Internet [see the text on which I based my remarks here]. Now most of the participants in the seminar were academics and […]
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My world has changed
October 22nd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
In the beginning, I had an iPod; then I was a very early adopter of the iPhone; and then I was an immediate adopter of the iPad. Today I finally went over to Apple totally by abandoning the world of the PC and switching to a Mac computer. I’ve had my latest PC for six years […]
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