Here's a TV novelty: programmes made in Scotland for most Scots
IN CASE YOU haven't noticed, £l6m of public funding has just been ponied up to establish a new Gaelic TV channel. I make that £232 for...
Here's a vision for our politicians: we will become a totally carbon neutral country over 20 yea
WELL, the elections for the Scottish Parliament are looming ... and are we bored rigid yet? Maybe we shouldn't be disappointed at the...
Radical moves at Apple's core - music downloads just got cheaper
THERE SEEMS TO BE an aura surrounding Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple - a kind of 'reality distortion field' that exempts him from...
Creative Scotland: born to fail?
AT THE END OF 2003 it all looked very promising. On St Andrew's day that year, First Minister Jack McConnell made a visionary speech...
Election is time to wring fiscal concessions from the Treasury
IT IS A UNIVERSAL TRUTH that Scotland leads the pack in scientific development and innovation. Scots research universities competitively...
Learning from two contrasting big growth economies
THIS IS A TALE of two countries: China and India. Both are nations of well over one billion people each and both have been growing...
Learning to say ‘no’ and the ABCs of global management
FOR MANAGERS in technology businesses this is the season for thinking internationally. Scottish Enterprise held the inaugural Globalscot...
It takes quality and quantity to stay world beaters, Scotty
THIS IS REALLY WORRYING. Scotland might be running out of engineers. The country has a fine tradition of scientists and engineers from...
Flying’s no angel, but there are bigger C02 criminals
OF ALL THE ACTIVITIES demonised by society up there with foxhunting, harpooning whales and clubbing baby seals to death, now comes the...
Active rivalry is the lifeblood of the media
IN THE DOG-EAT-DOG world of the British media one of the great untouchables, apparently immune from all criticism, seems to be BBC Radio...
Cheap, fast and connected — the kids are in touch with the future
A DEBATE WAS HELD in the House of Lords recently, proposed by Baroness Susan Greenfield, in which their lordships worried about the...
Is the end nigh for the cheap universal internet?
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TECHNOLOGY adopted in the last 50 years has undoubtedly been the internet. The mid 60s co-operative project between...
To sloganise: a substitute for reasoned discussion (dict)
IF YOU AGREE a slogan for a company or an enterprise, you are inevitably setting yourself up to be measured against it. So when Google...
Clash over ownership makes for start-up stalemate
ONE OF THE ENDURING mysteries about the Scottish economy is the chronic mismatch between the level of innovation in our universities,...
Wannabe entrepreneurs are being suckered by ‘reality’ TV
THERE HAS BEEN a recent glut in television programmes dedicated to entrepreneurial activities. Donald Trump’s Apprentice in the USA...
If Google is the Mother of Invention, then what can’t it do?
SILICON VALLEY, just south of San Francisco, is the most inventive strip of land on the planet. Companies such as Sun, Cisco,...
Scotland loses out in the digital switch-over chaos
THE BRITISH TELEVISION industry today is a bit like the proverbial swan — it may all look smooth and controlled on the top, but...