ITWeek Lem Bingley

The allure of the subnotebook

Lem Bingley — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:56:06 +0100

It’s time for me to buy a new laptop, the old one having gone well past the point of pension. There was a time when I would simply have bought the lightest Toshiba I could afford, but things have become...

Ten years and still here

Lem Bingley — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:41:57 +0100

Can it really be 10 years? Hard to believe but oddly true - 10 years ago today we published the first edition of IT Week. I'm now the last person on the launch team still involved in the publication -...

What will web 3.0 involve?

Lem Bingley — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:07:26 +0100

Chatting with an IT industry pal the other day, we got to wondering what might constitute web 3.0. It’s fair to say that web 2.0 is a pretty loosely defined thing, but we agreed to define it as emphasising collaboration,...

Sex in the City

Lem Bingley — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:57:45 +0000

For reasons best known to itself, the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) has decided, appearances to the contrary, that Lem must be a female name. I know this because every email or letter I get from the PPA is addressed to...

Long-term fallout of HMRC's infamous discs

Lem Bingley — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:16:32 +0000

Part of what journalists try to do every day is to play futurologist - to extrapolate future trends from today’s events. IT managers have to do the same, of course, every time they propose a budget or a five-year plan....

Using Windows Movie Maker is a mugs' game

Lem Bingley — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:15:10 +0000

On Saturday I saw a performance of Dealer’s Choice, a play about male ego, stupidity, throwing good money after bad, and not knowing when to quit. Although I can wholeheartedly recommend the play, I evidently didn’t learn anything from it,...

Science funding: robbing Peter to teach Paul

Lem Bingley — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:30:33 +0000

Why would anyone complain about the government's announcement of £140m funding for science and maths teaching in schools? It seems like a good move all round, right? Employers’ group the CBI is full of praise, with the body’s director of...

Five things to avoid

Lem Bingley — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:08:17 +0000

The following is a list of mistakes recently made that really ought to have been obviously iffy from the outset: 1. When providing IT to a distant retired relative for the first time, don’t forget to install remote access technology....

Management and measurement

Lem Bingley — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:35:24 +0000

Today, via Dennis Howlett, I reached the blog of Charles H. Green, which is focused on the issue of trust in business. It’s well worth bookmarking. I particularly liked Green’s simple observation that “the best way to be trusted is...

Who's who in R&D spending?

Lem Bingley — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:39:25 +0000

If you’d asked me which company spends most on research and development worldwide, I’d have said IBM (famed for filing lots of patents), or possibly Microsoft (it employs lots of researchers, even if it doesn’t always show), or perhaps Honda...