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SA Mathieson is an analyst and journalist, specialising in healthcare IT and management, particularly in the NHS.

The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

Geek's Guide to Britain Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits

05 May 2021 | 37

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

Geek's Guide to Britain Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury

19 Sep 2019 | 61

GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?

Feature What we know, plus potential ways to make that data flow

05 Sep 2019 | 115

Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter?

Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider

10 Jul 2019 | 30

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Geek's Guide to Britain Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery

18 Mar 2019 | 99

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

Geek's Guide to Britain The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon

27 Sep 2018 | 27

National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office

Would they have prevented Windrush? The mind boggles

19 Jun 2018 | 141

UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures

Still making it rain for MS

10 May 2018 | 25

Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Geek's Guide to Britain Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web

15 Feb 2018 | 45

We already give up our privacy to use phones, why not with cars too?

The future of transport looks like a sensor-riddled computer

14 Feb 2018 | 102

Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms

Figures are growing but still puny compared to profits

22 Jan 2018 | 13

Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland

Geek's Guide to Britain What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank

12 Jan 2018 | 39

Universal basic income is a great idea, which is also why it won't happen

Maybe Zuck and Musk do have it all figured out, but powers that be will need to see some proof

15 Nov 2017 | 259

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Geek's Guide to Britain A star performer producing fission-free plasma power

25 Sep 2017 | 141

Pssst... wanna participate in a Google DeepMind AI pilot? Be careful

Lessons from the NHS's 1.6 million data-records shovel

23 Aug 2017 | 20

Tech can do a lot, Prime Minister, but it can't save the NHS

And it's not just a question of money, either

08 Jun 2017 | 175

How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections

TV ads banned, but targeted Facebook videos have free rein

30 May 2017 | 90

Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border

How Sweden and Norway turned to ANPR

11 May 2017 | 145

Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for

Not EVIL, not FIRST, but yes... it's your data and they're using it

07 Mar 2017 | 69

Cut off: Big government IT wallets snap shut on BT's fingers

Reg Whitehall spend analysis reveals cash flowing away

07 Feb 2017 | 27

Facebook pimping for politicos despite fake news 'purge'

Social giant works both sides of news street

17 Jan 2017 | 24

Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend

Victory for SMBs? Not quite, Reg research reveals

13 Jan 2017 | 5

Meet the Loughborough 'emo' boffins who predicted Trump's victory

Social media tracking... yep, this is the future

24 Nov 2016 | 18

World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit

Papworth's timely backups saved the day

04 Nov 2016 | 113

Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

Geek's Guide to Britain From Acorns to bedrooms

26 Sep 2016 | 54

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