Nick Booth

The battle of the unlicensed spectrum could make The Revenant look like a tea party

Digital

By Nick Booth, 29 January 2016 at 16:30

If you are at all squeamish, I recommend you don’t read on. This article could get as gory Leonardo Di Caprio’s latest opus The Revenant. It’s about modern day struggles but it has similar themes to Di Caprio’s western-themed bloodbath:...Continue reading »

Five applications we really need – if only I knew how to programme

Digital

By Nick Booth, 8 December 2015 at 10:50

At the risk of sounding like a digital Dr Dolittle, I wish I could speak to the Automatons and learn their languages. Imagine chatting with a car, or bantering with a boat on the sea. To paraphrase the doctor: If...Continue reading »

How to tell your story with data – it doesn’t lie but it can go on too long!

Future Trends

By Nick Booth, 19 November 2015 at 09:52

This might be sacrilege for a freelance writer, but I’m starting to lose faith in words now. It’s difficult to trust them these days. They’re duplicitious little sound bites, these words. I’m starting to suspect data can tell stories quicker...Continue reading »

Search engine speak

Digital Life

By Nick Booth, 12 October 2015 at 13:23

I really like it when you speak to me like I’m a search engine Isn’t it annoying when people talk over your head to someone more important? Well, OK fair enough, it probably doesn’t happen to you. But it happens to...Continue reading »

If only we could make email deletion into a game

Digital Life

By Nick Booth, 26 August 2015 at 15:30

Sometimes the digital world creates more work than it automates. Surely that wasn’t the plan was it? Rather unfairly, technology doesn’t create more work for the architects of the new systems – oh no, they’re sailing ahead of us, blissfully unaware...Continue reading »

Here’s how we could automate journalism

Digital Life

By Nick Booth, 19 August 2015 at 11:43

Churnalism just got smarter – thanks to the security industry The Internet of things can fine tune many routine processes. So isn’t it time we automated journalism? Don’t laugh, it’s already taking place, with secret trials taking place on a firewall...Continue reading »

Internet of Things – the soap opera

Digital Life

By Nick Booth, 31 July 2015 at 12:30

When machines get smart, there’ll be conflict and high drama One of the clichés of film noire involves a haunted man, arriving in a strange city, and being taken under the wing of a streetwise local woman. In the story the...Continue reading »

Why IoT is going through a difficult teenage phase!

Business

By Nick Booth, 21 July 2015 at 10:30

Uncommunicative data refuses to come out of its silo – and boy can it be difficult. As we all know, there are hundreds of benevolent IT developers who only want to do one thing – improve the world, one Internet working...Continue reading »

Is wearable tech about health, fashion or both?

Digital Life

By Nick Booth, 20 July 2015 at 21:03

I’ve always been puzzled by the phrase ‘statement outfit’. Is this some formal attire you might wear to, say, a court, solicitor’s office or police station? Judging by the news site where this phrase is used, the statement dress only ever...Continue reading »

Don’t go on the Internet – it’s a jungle out there!

Uncategorized

By Nick Booth, 8 July 2015 at 15:53

Generation Z is savvy, it’s hot – it’s everything I’m not! Young job seekers should exploit their security knowledge The most sensible well adjusted people in Cyberia are the females of Generation Z, according to a study by security company Blue...Continue reading »

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The battle of the unlicensed spectrum could make The Revenant look like a tea party

Five applications we really need – if only I knew how to programme

How to tell your story with data – it doesn’t lie but it can go on too long!

Search engine speak

If only we could make email deletion into a game

Here’s how we could automate journalism

Internet of Things – the soap opera

Why IoT is going through a difficult teenage phase!

Is wearable tech about health, fashion or both?

Don’t go on the Internet – it’s a jungle out there!