When a company is serious about promoting it’s own product, it’s usually beneficial to the potential customer-base to see how the product works in the real world.  This is never more true than in the software industry.  If you offer a product or service and you claim it has tangible benefits on the day-to-day running of a business, what better way to demonstrate this than to use the product yourself? That is exactly what Microsoft UK is doing by moving it’s in-house IT department to Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud storage service.  Their roll-out has begun by moving...

This video was shot as I was walking around old town Marbella entering Orange Square.  Definitely the best part of Marbella to explore (unless you are rich of course, in which case you should head straight to the Ferrari dealership in the new part)!

This was the view from my hotel room when I stayed in La Cala a few months ago.  The little white house next to the beach is my possible dream house!  Such a peaceful place though.  I’d recommend it if you fancy a few days away for a relaxing vacation.

If you own an Android phone (or even if you don’t) you will have probably heard about this thing they call fragmentation.  In basic terms, it is the number of different devices running differing versions of the Android operating system.  That is device-level fragmentation.  There is also fragmentation at the app-level too.  There are almost 4,000 devices using some form of the Android operating system running a single app from the Google Play store.  Only a small number of those run the latest version of that app! The infographic you see above was put together by Open Signal Maps to help...

As US Stocks fell, investors bought into the US Dollar as a move to the safe haven currency. The insecurities around Europe continue to weigh heavy on investor sentiment as they become increasingly nervous about holding funds in any currency other than the US Dollar. Also, there is no major news from UK today, which means the Pound will be mainly affected by other currencies. At the moment, the Pound is downgrading against the US Dollar. The Pound pushed higher once again and strengthened against the Euro. This was mainly due to weaknesses in the Euro rather than positive news from the UK economy....

Now that the dust has settled on the Flashback Trojan, security researchers have been able to come up with a final figure of how many Macintosh machines were affected. According to a number of anti-virus vendors, the total amount of machines infected by Flashback is around 600,000.  This is by far the greatest number of Apple computers compromised by a trojan to date. For those unaware, Flashback is a piece of malware that disables the security of the computer it is downloaded on and then allows the computer to be controlled remotely and added to a ‘botnet’.  The largest number of...