The SKILLZONE Newsletter Archive

25th April 2019
Whatever happened to quality?
Beware the USB-based computer killer
Reverse-engineering words
The amplified whisper

28th March 2019
The strongest rules and the weakest enforcement
Cash sucks, but so does plastic
Raising an eyebrow at physiognomy

27th February 2019
Poking the pokemon, and other realities
Throwing money into the wishing well
Patriotic Peppa

31st January 2019
Beware of push payment fraudsters
The true cost of white collar crime
Won't someone think of the children

26th December 2018
Something in the air tonight
2018, a breakthrough year for AI

30th November 2018
Hitting the nail on the head
Abuse privacy at your own risk
You're grounded
The wood and trees of AI

31st October 2018
Pulling out of the postal union
The A to Z of bureaucracy
Putting the creep into creepy
Water off a duck's back

27th September 2018
The power of platforms
The Facebook advertising platform and the law
The most politically incorrect,...
Plain English prescribed for doctors

30th August 2018
May may be confusing
Keeping mum on personal data usage
Give me some time and I can make it rhyme
Milk and sugar?

7th August 2018
Well that's another fine mess...
Preying on your insecurities
The final breach of Terms and Conditions
Go to jail, do not pass Go

28th June 2018
Cars talking to cars, and sometimes drivers too
I can see you breathing
Look up to the skies and see
I have a meme

30th May 2018
The great GDPR kerfuffle
Angels with dirty faces
The voice of an angel
What The France?
Blame the machines
Hedgehogs, (biological, not Sonic)

27th April 2018
The ethics of search engines
The responsibilities of platforms
Reds under the bed
Using your car boot as a mailbox
Another April, another fool

28th March 2018
What direction now for autonomous cars?
Building on 3D printing
Near miss for a glider

27th February 2018
Bursting the bitcoin bubble
Spotting the Spotify flaw
Chrome blocking adverts? Surely not.
Taking a longer view of images

29th January 2018
New legislation could be just the ticket
Mobile apps and the consent game
When the self-driving car is snapped by the automated speed camera
Whatever happened to live music?
First day on the job for a drone

21st December 2017
The goose is getting fat
Pesky passwords
The end is nigh for the programmer
Apps for an 'appier life

28th November 2017
Pavement Zombies
The push to plastic
Joining the dots
Life in plastic, its fantastic
The naked ape

26th October 2017
Steaming open the envelope
We all wear pants
Strike one
Creepy creativity

29th September 2017
The fad of flat design
The quest for speed, and headlines
Space, the final frontier
Keeping the tube on track

31st August 2017
I spy, with my little eye
How fast is fast?
The lie of the land
Eye in the sky

27th July 2017
Black, white, and read all over
Going bananas in the US court
Another supermarket, another can of spam
Droning on about drones

29th June 2017
Leaving on a jet plane
A message to you Rudy
Where the buffalo roam
Its a jungle out there
Sound and Vision

24th May 2017
Vaccinate the NHS
Swallowing the digital revenue
Oregon, where science is against the law
The price of postage

26th April 2017
Any publicity is good publicity
Light fingers and credit cards
From the horse's mouth
Art for art's sake

30th March 2017
Privacy and politicians
Privacy in the shires
The privacy of the privvy

28th February 2017
The spy in the pocket
Watch the birdie
The patent headache

26th January 2017
The printed environment
Operating on the NHS
The mouths of babes and innocents

30th December 2016
A virus is for life, not just for Christmas
Google says,...
By the people, for the people

24th November 2016
The flange of baboons
The post truth conspiracy
Photoshop for speech
Playing chicken with robots and sheep

26th October 2016
Attacking the infrastructure
Responsible marketing and text spam
Transparency in policing
Who controls the electorate?

28th September 2016
A rose by any other name
Roaming was not built in a day
Hanging up on the phone spammers
An eye to photography
Aye-aye, robot

25th August 2016
Wake me up before you Go Go
I've got you,... under my skin
Radar Love
Northern Lights

26th July 2016
Pokemon-a-Go-Go
The digital economy
All roads lead to Sconthorpe
The high fibre diet

29th June 2016
The result and the reasons
Windows 10 upgrade deadline looms
Caveat Emptor or Caveat Venditor?
Three dimensional testimony

25th May 2016
Digital driving licenses
Smart TVs
Smart Cars
Smart Cities
Smart Shoes
The Daleks are coming
Changeable Weather

25th April 2016
Does the law understand computer crime?
Regulations change on cold calling
The BSOD and QR codes
Only in America

29th March 2016
The 21st century bank heist
The mountain and the mole hill
Robots in retreat

24th February 2016
Ad-blocking becomes mainstream
The Times they are a-changing
The Flying Squad
Move over Tiger
OK Go makes gravity waves

27th January 2016
Are we too dependent upon technology?
The medium is not the message
The challenges facing YouTube
Don't diss the tutu

23rd December 2015
Unavailable for legal reasons
No word for entrepreneur
Politicians in the Internet Age
Music without frontiers

24th November 2015
What's in a name?
Unlimited small print
WiFi X-ray spex
Criminal mastermind would like to meet...
Real life beats virtual

28th October 2015
The right to privacy
Anti-social networking
Armchair to kettle, kettle to armchair
Unlock the jukebox

30th September 2015
Ofcom acts on CLI spoofing
Lending a helping hand
Malware wears its poker face
The spirit of invention

25th August 2015
Conversing with a bot
The man machine interface
Extending the senses
Organics versus the machines
Organics versus androids
The future starts when?

29th July 2015
That bloated feeling
Home Office warns of ransomware
Crowded skies
Reviewing the reviews

24th June 2015
Emoji coming to a cashpoint near you
Edging towards Windows 10
Password reset scams
Dwindling SMS
The final frontier

27th May 2015
Is G-Fast on the horizon?
Sky high hacking claims
Broaden your mind, not your broadband
Dancing through the music

29th April 2015
When politicians try to be cool
The European marketplace
A million fake diet pills
ICANN wants help putting cat back in bag
Cops on camera
Supporting local artists

26th March 2015
Do we need more domains?
Biting back against robot diallers
Kickstarter kicks investors
YouTube breaks even
Giants of the TV age

25th February 2015
Confused by warnings? So are we.
Watching the detectives
OS maps finds its way to apps
Take a selfie, no brains required
Robot eats woman

28th January 2015
Fighting the phone scammers
Off-target hacking
The mobile phone generation

18th December 2014
Back to the desktop
Knocking out the knock offs
Doormat carpet bombing
Quantum 20:20 vision
Small Planet

26th November 2014
Amazon teams up with Post Office
No magic bullets
Can I have your autograph?
The extensible self

22nd October 2014
Nobel Prize Blues
Bello chaos hits UCL
The devil is in the detail
Does your phone have a kill switch?
Nature bites back

29th September 2014
Less paperwork for the motorists
Statistics and phone theft
An inkjet printer for an Airbus
Printing music

27th August 2014
Who owns the Internet?
Making a monkey of copyright?
Yet another Universal USB
Who you gonna call?

24th July 2014
The popularity penalty
Crackdown on copycats
The lightbulb moment
And I bring you,... Fire

24th June 2014
Its not just ticking the boxes
What would you pay for security?
Gender equality and technology enterprises
If you catch me looking at ya
A date for your diary

27th May 2014
Centimetre accuracy on Japanese GPS
A view from the sky
Happy we are..., or not
Yet another cat video

24th April 2014
Big data, big assumptions
How does a website make social impact?

The virus placebo

24th March 2014
That small moment in time
XP to become an Ex-Parrot
Where have all the Bitcoins gone?
Police corruption, no complaints
Welcome to Usbonia

26th February 2014
Facebook gets the message
The easiest way to make a million
The year of cluelessness
The bottom line on email

28th January 2014
When Gov tries to get StreetWise
Education, Education, Ed... autocomplete
Is Google just too big?
Its too easy to say 123456
Patent delight for lawyers

17th December 2013
The Bitcoin bubble
Pecking away at the advertising cake
Resolutions for 2014

27th November 2013
Healthcare website needs more surgery
Should cars block cellphones?
The rise of the cyborgs
Beware of astroturfing

26th October 2013
Gearing up for a 3D Christmas
Time is running out for XP
What does the fox say?
The robots are coming, the robots are coming

25th September 2013
Thumbs up or thumbs down?
You really must not spam
Grenades on a plane
Dad's credit card
Teaching old dogs new tricks

28th August 2013
Street furniture gets the green light
Putting a face to a name
Carelessness is the culprit
A talking shop on e-crime
Happy 30th MIDI

23rd July 2013
A colossal waste of money
Ask, ask, and ask again
Search engine transparency
The rising cost of crime
Voices from space

25th June 2013
Smarter cars and safer motoring
You've been framed
Strongbox for the New Yorker
QR codes from space

22nd May 2013
Lessons for parents
Quiet changes in copyright law
Privacy is a priority
Ring that bell

24th April 2013
The dusty archive of websites
Indonesia requires local domain names
Volumes down, infections up
Vinyl sales at 15 year high

25th March 2013
Eight nine ten, here we go again
Keeping an eye on augmented reality
Elephant Juice
Re-inventing the university
You'll come a'waltzing St Hilda with me

25th February 2013
Old horses, new tricks
ICO changes its stance on cookies
Would you trust a computer?
Thunderbirds are Go

25th January 2013
EU warns on consent by inertia
Doing the sums on the digital divide
Two cans of lager and a packet of cheese?
The accessibility dividend
117 bricks of fun

17th December 2012
Undermining the QR Code
Governments and accessibility
Google bullish about profits
The buzz about forensics
SMS celebrates 20 years

28th November 2012
Is bigger always better?
Old familiar faces?
Blame it on the hackers
Hitting back at cyber-bullying
Everybody say cheese

25th October 2012
Broadband commitments by 2015
A barcode birthday
Retail Politics USA
Twitter is not a popularity contest
Gangnam Style

24th September 2012
Is the party over for party balloons?
Selling off the IPV4 space
Sticks and stones may break my bones
Die hard with an iPod
Peppers from space
Ignoble Prizes 2012

17th August 2012
Go for gold
Dedicated Followers of Fashion
Video killed the radio stars
This is what democracy looks like
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

26th July 2012
Faceless Facebookers and unlikely likes
Deep pockets needed at Google
Cyber cops catch cyber crooks
Doorstep deliveries
Splashing out on advertising

30th June 2012
The mushroom cloud of gTLDs
The Emperor's New Clothes
Cracking the Captcha
Send in the rats

30th May 2012
Who will pay the piper?
UK cookie cutter laws come into effect
Don't forget the Equality Act
Beating the traffic
High-energy diets

26th April 2012
Communications privacy in the spotlight again
Google is not the only fruit
Twitter goes to the movies
Chickens from space

27th March 2012
Politicians in a flap again
Spending from the public purse
Cheque fraud on the rise
Will we pay for content?
Tell me what I say
Tom Tom turn around, don't ever let me down

27th February 2012
When ticking a box is not enough
Getting your Snickers in a twist
Woody Woodpecker on the way out
Tweeting about the big birds
The power of colour and song

27th January 2012
Skirmishes in the patent war
Pushing the boundaries
Bitter pill for the NHS
Buyer beware,... and sellers too
Phones from space

19th December 2011
Responding to text spam
Silent updates in MSIE
Driving disk prices in 2012
Resolutions
A special Christmas present

29th November 2011
Unlocking the CAPTCHA code
XXX domain,... good or bad for business?
And its raining
Questions of ownership
Argentina makes Falklands bid
The phone addiction

28th October 2011
Counting the cost of currency
The Transparency Report
Think of the children,... again
The loss of luminaries

27th September 2011
The nation goes mobile
Networking at work
Ever faster net connections
Carder gets the red card
Do you want fries with that?

30th August 2011
PC celebrates thirtieth birthday
Courts swallow Apple's tablets
The self-robbery trojan
Is this headline a literary work?
A joke for modern times

29th July 2011
Spam volumes down,... but is it a good thing?
Mouse gnaws away at security
You can't trust the coppers like the old time specials
Is information empowering?
Cookie recipes

24th June 2011
PIN codes,... as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4
Are we too connected?
Failing via Facebook
If you want to sing out, sing out
You can't take it with you

27th May 2011
Google's game changer
Security through obscurity
Savings which are too good to be true
Its in the dictionary, innit
It started with a kiss

28th April 2011
The worm turns
Industrialised crime
But think of the children
The hardships of being a Beeb executive
Beware of pirate squirrels

29th March 2011
The ides of March
The cost of the census
The expense of the expenses system
Here's looking at you kid
Rattle those keys
What not to put on your CV

28th February 2011
End of days?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Cry Freedom!
Cool running
The colour of money
The usual suspects
Dumber and Dumber

28th January 2011
Choose your font carefully
Pricing in retrospect
The uncertainty of cold calls
Electronic eyes everywhere, but where are the helping hands?
Armed robbery? there's an app for that
Deep-fried data

21st December 2010
Adding a 3D element to mapping
Not enough shopping days to Christmas
The power of Hollywood
Paper, plastic or brass?
Commemorative Mugs

23rd November 2010
More goodies from Google
Sinking a battleship
Shutting off the mobile
Is your life an open book?
80 billion pixels,... but is it art?

25th October 2010
The spending review spreadsheet
Have you heard about....?
Double Irish and a Dutch Sandwich
Embracing Twitter
Penguin Panorama

29th September 2010
Google reveals real-time search
Giving surveys a bad name
Next generation accessibility
Don't get mad, get even

24th August 2010
Physician, heal thyself
IE9 is on the horizon
When staff leave, so does your data
43,252,003,274,489,856,000 cubes
Owning an iPhone is a risky business

23rd July 2010
Amazon takes on Tesco
Democracy and the web
Fiscal entrenchment
Baffling the FBI
Of aircraft and the Archers

28th June 2010
Uncertainties over the Equality Bill
Microsoft pushes Tags against QR Codes
Status Quo fans need not apply
Apologies for the free beer
Watch the birdie

28th May 2010
The demise of print
Tweet in haste, repent at leisure
Protecting your privacy
Think of a number higher than 235
Beavers from space

30th April 2010
What size is your screen?
Freeing up the OS data
Watching the world
Keeping tabs on you
Pedestrians from space

26th March 2010
Archiving the UK web
The rising cost of computing
Cracks in the defences
15 minutes of fame
Making a name for yourself

26th February 2010
Election Fever
The great video debate
Please Rob Me
Creativity versus cut and paste
Pennies from heaven
What's in a name?

28th January 2010
Google launches its mobile phone
Putting a padlock on PAF
Changing the game at YouTube
Exploiting earthquakes
The password top ten
Nail gun versus computer?

17th December 2009
All eyes on Google
But once a year
Truth, science and the Internet
Politicians and magic bullets
Be a bonehead? there's an app for that
Creativity and the common man

25th November 2009
Computing in the clouds
Google unveils Chrome OS
Penny for the Guy
WiFi for all
The word of the year

28th October 2009
The pervasiveness of Google
The fragility of the internet
FTTH: an acronym to remember
EU leads call to arms against spam
Coming soon to a street near you

29th September 2009
The WiFi solution to traffic congestion
Does the web need a SideWiki?
Hard facts about penis pills
Beware the CAPS LOCK police
And beware of biscuits

26th August 2009
Google books
Making a twitter of yourself
How fast is fast enough?
What price friendship
Back to the future
The British X Files

22nd July 2009
The Jackson Effect
Do you need a femto?
Crime doesn't pay,... or does it?
New balls please
Computer power
Fish from space

24th June 2009
Broadband in every home by 2012
Planning for Windows 7
Has your mobile been opted in?
A search engine called Bing
Wiring up to the braingate
Stress-testing the spell checker

28th May 2009
Straddling the snuffling pig
All the spam you can eat
Good news for archaeologists
Patently stupid
Job Hunting? Check that CV

24th April 2009
Be careful where you point that camera
When Google points at you
Brussels to sue UK government
Refunds for scam victims
Rewarding the wrong people
Computers and music

19th March 2009
IE8 is waiting in the wings
ICO finally bares its teeth
ICANN agrees to delay new domain names
An over-reaction to Facebook?
Realism and Hollywood
When is a bug not a bug?

21st February 2009
Do you Twitter?
Tampering with Titian
Digital Engagement
Sharpening the brain,.. and the pencil
Software targets the iPhone

19th January 2009
Laptops are taking over the desktop
The cost of community
Unbiased praise?
No end to the internet scams
Robber rumbled on Facebook

22nd December 2008
Password leaks in Internet Explorer
Justice in the Internet age
Thinking outside the dictionary

23rd November 2008
Have you been Verified by Visa?
Judges without frontiers
Criminal injustices for the young
A sign of the times

18th October 2008
The neglected recycling issue
The cost of empty offices
ADSL speed improvements on a plate
Double standards
George Orwell would be proud
Rumours of his demise,...
High stakes at online poker
Royal Appointment

18th September 2008
New browsers on the horizon
Papering over the cracks at Number 10
Chinese whispers trigger panic
The Human Element
Data Protection,... who is it protecting?
Are you keeping count?

15th August 2008
Tough on play, tough on the causes of play
What price history?
No honour among thieves
Knowledge is cool, but apparently spelling is not
Some sense in names, at last
More trouble with names

18th July 2008
Spikes in the traffic reports
New domains,... opportunities or problems?
Is your CV an identity toolkit?
Music in the workplace
Who invented Office software?
The £31,500 holiday

18th June 2008
Unleashing the Atom
The oldest swinger in town
The legality of spook technology
Dogs from space

16th May 2008
The price of a website
The price of a password
Internet fraud is up,... and down
Who needs a computer?
The dark side of social networking
The ubiquitous toilet seat

16th April 2008
Where does the spam come from?
House ransacked following Internet hoax
Reading the small print in online services
Put Bruce Willis on standby
Making a mountain out of a toll bill

26th March 2008
Do you know your online shopping rights?
Capable or Ready?
When will the military learn to use encryption?
Once every four years
The price of friends
A woman scorned

1st March 2008
Hackers deface London Police website
Mobile phones embrace EXIF
BT joins forces with Phorm
Japanese police take down spammer
Price cuts for Vista

18th February 2008
Trojan is targetting people through MSN Messenger
Home routers may be vulnerable to remote take-over
MS Office update disables some MS files
An end to domain tasting