Cuil is the new talking vacuum cleaner

Today’s Financial Times technology briefing heralds the advent of a new search engine: Cuil which boasts to have indexed three times as many web pages as Google. Must be worth a look ,I thought, so I tried a bit of ego surfing and was quickly but completely underwhelmed by cuil.com.

The search results show that cuil is about as READ MORE

Money to burn? Taxman chucks another $5.5 billion on the bonfire

The Sunday Times reports today (27th July) that HMRC is to write off £2.8 billion as a consequence of problems with a computer system. So that’s another 5.5 billion dollars thrown on the Trillion Dollar Bonfire, without so much as a blink of an eye.

According to the newspaper, the latest HMRC accounts apparently show a further planned write-off READ MORE

Who is the weakest link?

BT Global Services are a major provider of outsourced IT services for thousands of businesses in the UK; customers doubtless reassured by their perception of BT as a big player.

But is that customer confidence so well placed for the future? Who will be the weakest link now that BT are outsourcing much of their “routine” services and extending the READ MORE

One ping to rule them all?

I sometimes wonder if anyone has bothered to research Tolkien puns on the web. There may already be learned tomes aplenty on just that topic, or there may be precious few, my precious. I digress. The ping in question is, of course, ping.fm – “a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social networks with a single READ MORE

Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll – VirginMedia takes the easy option

Broadband provider VirginMedia are sending snotty letters to “illegal” music downloaders and may clap these dastardly “pirates” in irons if they don’t buckle down and pay attention to Cap’n Branson and his crew.

Notwithstanding the legalities, technicalities and niceties of the scenario, I feel that the policy clearly illustrates the strange prioritisation of customer service issues at READ MORE

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