Revealed: the streets most at risk from a £170m identity theft crime wave

Fraud experts have pinpointed the Scottish streets being targeted by organised crime in a £170million identity theft crime spree.

Using cutting-edge computer modeling technology, researchers at the credit reference agency Experian have analysed the details of 10,000 identity crimes to identify the 10 areas in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh where residents are most at risk of falling victim to Scotland's fastest-growing crime. Read more »

Scottish business must learn to love the shock of the new way of the world

"What is innovation? It's not just about new ideas, it's not just about inventing, it's about succesfully exploiting the new inventions that we make. Read more »

Future of BBC’s iPlayer in doubt

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Traditional rivalries are one thing, but when you find yourself trekking into an indeterminate future in which you will face competitors unknown in scope and scale, sometimes it's better to forget old differences, circle your wagons and stand back to back against the howling of the storm.

Britain's terrestrial broadcasters have got the message. Read more »

Losing the plot

IT COULD have been prevented for £65, but this was a disaster waiting to happen. However shocking and catastrophic the Inland Revenue's security breach may seem to the families left wide open to the threat of identity theft, last week's debacle came as no surprise to the UK's top technology experts.

With the estimated cost of the data disaster standing at more than £200 million and millions of British households now squarely in the sights of international organised crime gangs, the incident has exposed a fundamental flaw in the public sector's approach to IT that many experts have long recognised.

"The most shocking aspect to the loss of 25 million records is that for £65 the data on the two CDs could easily have been stored on an inexpensive and easy-to-use encrypted USB drive. Read more »

Must-have message is the secret of Apple’s success

ONCE UPON a time, the zeitgeist was something you chased. Billions of marketing dollars were poured into pursuing the alluring, fast-moving and almost imperceptible curve that remained just out of reach for all but the hipper-than-thou few. Read more »

Learning and business must get connected

THERE ARE a thousand challenges facing 21st-century Scotland. The rapidly changing economic environment, a meteoric pace of technological advance, an ageing population and the increasingly global nature of enterprise and competition - these are are the obstacles the nation must overcome if it is to prosper and progress.

One thing is clear: if we are to meet the demands of a turbulent global marketplace, every single Scot is going to have to be equipped with the requisite skills, and as things stand this simply isn't the case. Read more »

The man who invented the 21st Century

IT WAS only when he reached the middle of nowhere that Vint Cerf realised what he had done. This is somewhat ironic, given the pan-global nature of his career to date, but it was in a one-horse town at least 100 miles from anywhere you ever heard of that he began to fully appreciate the implications of the whirlwind he had unleashed. Read more »

Nothing on telly? Broadcast yourself

IMAGINE A world without limits, where the power and reach once held by a tiny few is suddenly at the disposal of all. Read more »

Holy batcapes! The age of the superhero suit is upon us

ITS ROCK-HARD surface can take a full- on assault from a baseball bat, yet remains flexible enough to allow you to kick, leap and roll with perfect ease. Read more »

Our digital darkness

A TEACHER is assaulted, another man is murdered and the rape of a teenage girl is filmed, digitised and served up for the titillation of millions. Read more »