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Jane Wakefield's big unmetered adventure
News Take an irreverent stroll down BT's yellow brick road toward unmetered access as good fairy Jane Wakefield spells out the blunders along the way. Jane Wakefield: Take me back to the good old days of BT A tired speech by a beleaguered chairman and...
[March 6, 2000, 15:11]
Jane Wakefield: The Net takes on the establishment
News It is the kind of story they make Hollywood movies about: the little guy takes on the big corporation and a David and Goliath courtroom battle ensues. In this case, the little guy is nuclear physicist Laurence Godfrey, and the big bad corporation...
[April 3, 2000, 9:02]
Jane Wakefield: Uncovering the heart of technology
News The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge in the USA bears more resemblance to a business park than to a university. It sprawls over a vast area and, as if to be close enough to breathe the air of invention, a gaggle of bio-tech...
[June 27, 2001, 16:44]
Jane Wakefield: Dreaming of an e-Christmas
News 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except the click of the mouse. The traditional Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore may need some updating this Christmas if the horde of e-merchants...
[November 26, 1999, 15:37]
Jane Wakefield: Get real Bill, you're not cool
News A little quiz for you first (er, it helps if you're about 25-35). What does this little ditty remind you of? Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, that's. If you answered Martini, the sophisticated cocktail beloved of James Bond, you would be wrong because...
[October 15, 1999, 10:51]
Jane Wakefield: E-ambassador, you are spoiling us
News The latest addition to the ever-growing army of e-government warriors has arrived in the corridors of power as a civil servant called Allan takes up his post as e-envoy. While Alex Allan -- his previous job was High Commissioner to Australia...
[January 21, 2000, 13:20]
Jane Wakefield: The week that was...
News Turn off your PCs and lock up your children, the demon of porn on the Net has raised its head again. On Monday Net porn baron Graham Waddon got off lightly with a suspended sentence because he is ill (apparently he has hypothyroidism and an...
[September 10, 1999, 17:23]
Jane Wakefield: Naked in Vegas
News When you get sent to Las Vegas to cover one of the biggest tech conferences in the world you are faced with one of those difficult choices. On the one hand, you have Las Vegas beckoning you from the desert with a blaze of twinkling beacons as if a...
[November 16, 2000, 9:16]
Jane Wakefield: The silly season of surveys
News Summer is the silly season -- when streakers show us their balls at Wimbledon and men in suits take off their ties and lie in Soho Square. An unofficial wind-down as everyone attempts to do as little as possible to stave off jealousy at the fact...
[July 7, 2000, 15:12]
Jane Wakefield: Thankyou for the music...NOT!
News If you are a secret pineapple pushing fan of Black Lace or think there is no better pastime than playing air guitar in your bedroom to the heavy beat of Survivor's 'Eye of the Tiger', then help is at hand.
[May 8, 2000, 11:18]
Jane Wakefield: Have you caught the love bug?
News It has long been said that the three most dangerous words in the English language are "I love you" and for computer users across Europe and the States that was proved correct Thursday. Unsolicited email is usually dull, promising miracle diets or...
[May 5, 2000, 10:13]
Jane Wakefield: Anarchy in the UK
News After a weekend when Winston Churchill briefly gained a green Mohican and Parliament Square found out the true meaning of flower power, the establishment will be looking for people to blame and you can bet your bottom dollar the Internet will be...
[May 2, 2000, 12:42]
Jane Wakefield: The week that was
News Our old friend Microsoft was back in the headlines last week, with a large dollop of proverbial egg on its face as news broke Monday that its Web-based email service had been cracked. Millions of Hotmail accounts lay open.
[September 3, 1999, 7:00]
Jane Wakefield: The Dickensian world of patents
News Tech firms are losing value by the day and the promise of what they might achieve is no longer enough to keep their share price riding high. Clinging to the vestiges of the dot-com bandwagon, they are looking around for a new way to make money.
[April 10, 2001, 9:09]
Jane Wakefield: In search of Internet truth
News The Internet, we are told, is about to change our lives forever. We stand at the cusp of a revolution but while the economic changes are obvious to see (dotcom mania followed by stock market crash), the personal revolution is less easy to gauge.
[March 20, 2001, 7:36]
Jane Wakefield: The dotcom fairy tale is over
News Last week Yahoo! was compared to Humpty Dumpty, the clothed egg of the nursery rhyme who fell off the wall while the army looked on. Yahoo! has sat equally precariously on the dotcom wall but it has made money and it has been there a long time so...
[March 12, 2001, 9:29]
Jane Wakefield: A broadband chat from Rome
News For telco's worried about lost revenue, falling shares and the cold shoulder from investors, take a trip to Rome. They love phones there and the hours they spend chatting to each other on their mobiles would comfort even the most jaded telco director.
[March 5, 2001, 8:03]
Jane Wakefield: Broadband Britain, please stand up
News The government appears to have gone slightly mad. Maybe it is pre-election jitters, or perhaps it is just in denial. Either way, I recommend it book itself into the Priory immediately and stay there until it is able to say "BT is a monopoly and we...
[February 19, 2001, 15:28]
Jane Wakefield: The great British tech turn-off
News Do we love our mobiles and PDAs in the way that, as teenagers, we loved our cuddly toys and action men? Or do we wish we could go back to the days when no-one knew we didn't have any friends because the incessant (or not) ring of the mobile was yet...
[April 3, 2001, 12:05]
Jane Wakefield: I am the network
News When BT invited me to visit a large shed in a remote part of Suffolk on a rainy Friday all kinds of Reservoir Dogs images flashed through my mind. After all, I have not been particularly nice to BT over the years and they would almost be justified...
[March 26, 2001, 15:30]
