As buzzwords go, 2014 has been a big year for the “ Internet of Things ”, or IoT . A term coined 15 years ago by a specialist in RFID , it was later refined in a paper as referring to a world where machines can share information (perhaps about themselves...

Exactly 5 years after publishing the very first instalment   (though it was internal only for a year before I started posting the tips on this blog) , Tip o’ the Week goes Old Skool : # 256 , or 2 8 , the number of combinations possible from a single...

The Store was a key innovation when Windows 8 launched, and continues to grow, both in terms of the number of apps published and the way popular and well-rated apps are surfaced. Earlier this year, Microsoft said there were over 150,000 apps in the Windows...