Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Large business-critical systems can be brought down by power failure. My previous post looked at Airlines. This time we turn our attention t...

Norwich Union has been experimenting with Pay-As-You-Drive insurance for a little while now, and has now made this service generally availab...

The economic questions of payment and cross-subsidy are highly relevant to the service economy, so here is an item cross-posted from the Bus...

The UK telecom regulator Ofcom published a long-awaited report last week, widely seen as a further challenge to BT's near-monopoly over...

One of the things that interests me about mobile computing are the architectural implications of decoupling. If speech is even a possibility...

Since BT’s monopoly of directory services was removed earlier this year, there have been lots of competing directory services in the UK, all...