Like a squillion other companies we have  been scrambling for our .mobi domain name.   For those of you who haven’t encountered .mobi before, it’s a top level domain for content designed to be accessed by mobile devices.  It has the backing of many of the significant  players in mobile communications and search including Vodafone, Samsung,  [...]

In the 80s, when most people didn’t even know what email was, the closest thing most nerds came to the internet was through things called BBSs. Esoteric text-based systems such as Wildcat were called up by people using their phones and 300 baud modems. Strange, beardy characters who gave themselves names such as Plembo and [...]

 Antoine Augustin Cournot may have been the first to plot it on a graph and get people who like equations with lots of jumbled numbers and letters in them excited. Good ol’ Alfred Marshall came along later and truly popularised the notion. But older geniuses such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo implicitly recognised it [...]