Scotland is set to benefit from a digital revolution right across the country, Infrastructure Secretary Alex Neil predicts.

As I've recently been mentioning here, I have lately been doing lots of clearing out of junk from and organising of my home, which is a very satisfying activity. While doing this today, I had another of those haven't-things-been-progressing-a-lot-lately? moments: The point being that that's 16 megabytes. Not gigabytes, megabytes. This thing came with one of my earlier digital camera...

The industry’s players have been too slow to adapt to the digital world

The European Commission is following with interest the battle between Google and Visa, which have both stepped up their offers of "digital wallet" services. EurActiv has seen a draft of a public consultation document that the EU executive will launch in January on internet and mobile payments. More »

Here is the headline: EU digital exclusion is 'unacceptable'. The clear implication of the quotes in that headline is that whereas the person being reported doing the talking indeed said "unacceptable", that doesn't mean that the word makes much sense, and in fact it is probably rather ridiculous. Quite so. But to me the word "exclusion" is at least as much deserving of sneer quotes...

Scotland's six cities are to benefit from a new fund to improve transport, digital connections, culture and the low carbon economy.

Neelie Kroes, the EU's Digital Agenda Commissioner, is under intense pressure from member states that are threatening to delay or water down her proposal to abolish cross-border tariffs on mobile phone calls within Europe by 2016. More »

The European commissioner for research and innovation, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has publicly sought the support and advice of Internet rivals Microsoft and Google in her quest to carry through the EU executive’s ambitious €80-billion Horizon 2020 research programme. More »

Independent… The co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales has criticised Bell Pottinger’s “ethical blindness” as the lobbying company admitted altering details of its clients’ reputations online. Bell Pottinger last night said that its digital team used a number of accounts to edit Wikipedia articles, although it stressed it had never done anything illegal. Last night, Mr

The digital world is undergoing a revolution in "self-organisation" &# thanks to social media &# that offers individuals, companies and governments opportunities to transform society in innovative ways, according to a leading Internet expert. It also threatens to unleash civil unrest on a scale never before witnessed, he warns, citing the Arab Spring. More »