15 June 2009 | spiked

Risk-taking, R&D and the recession

The woeful level of Western investment in R&D reveals much about the capitalists’ state of mind

7 April 2009 | spiked

A Fu Manchu of the dot com age?

Claims that Chinese cyber-spies are plotting world domination through the World Wide Web are greatly exaggerated

26 March 2009 | Computing

Now is not the time to lose faith in R&D

If regulators get the better of innovators, it will only serve to prolong the recession

11 September 2008 | Computing

Is man's best friend a robot's worst enemy?

As consumers start to explore the benefits of mobile robotics, a potential rival to the technology is emerging from an unlikely source

11 July 2008 | IT Week

Will insight lose out to inanity on the mobile web?

Mobile web’s business potential may be undermined by its more frivolous aspects

30 May 2008 | IT Week

Innovators must follow Frank's example

Sinatra’s My Way might be a hammy song, but it’s the right policy in R&D

28 April 2008 | IT Week

Experience trumps youthful exuberance

Firms must resist calls to indulge the techno-whims of the MySpace generation

28 March 2008 | IT Week

Race to be green saps creative energy

The energy conservation fad is symptomatic of IT leaders’ narrowing ambition

18 December 2007 | IT Week

In praise of Do It Yourself

Bringing in outsiders to help big firms innovate doesn’t guarantee success

20 November 2007 | IT Week

Lara Croft gets down to business

Is IBM right to believe that computer games can aid corporate education and inspire innovation?

16 October 2007 | IT Week

Compulsive computer use

Can’t kick the IT habit? It’s time to stop worrying and state the case for free will

7 September 2007 | IT Week

Innovation is more than combination

New technological breakthroughs are often a clever mix of old ones. But they also mark a leap named Progress

3 August 2007 | IT Week

HDTV shows the way for online comms

Directed at entertainment, high-definition TV could also prove the turning point for video conferencing

2 August 2007 | Special to Woudhuysen.com

Interaction design and the failure of post-modernism

Review of Gerhard M Buurman, Ed, Total interaction: theory and practice of a new paradigm for the design disciplines, Birkhäuser, 2006

12 July 2007 | spiked

Let's fight back against the new Model Army

Like voodoo forecasts, computer models of climate change are being used to stifle political discussion and resign man to his Fate