BitDepth#918 - December 31
31/12/13 17:57 Filed in: BitDepth - December 2013
Some high points from our coverage of technology news and developments in 2013. Click here to read more...
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BitDepth#917 - December 24
24/12/13 20:15 Filed in: BitDepth - December 2013
Putting an iPad into a child's hands calls for careful planning if you want the experience to have a useful impact. Click here to read more...
Samsung introduces an experience
24/12/13 20:15 Filed in: BitDepth+
Samsung introduces an experience store at Gulf City to properly introduce its new products and technologies, Click here to read more...
Five tech gifts you haven’t thought of
18/12/13 22:38 Filed in: BitDepth+
Five gifts for the technologically inclined person in your life. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#916 - December 17
17/12/13 20:49 Filed in: BitDepth - December 2013
Brett Lewis does Trinidad and particularly Tobago proud with locally animated sequences in a new historical docudrama about a pivotal battle in Tobago's history. Click here to read more...
Ultimate gifts for ultimate executives
17/12/13 20:49 Filed in: BitDepth+
Four Christmas gifts you might want to consider getting that ultimate executive in your life. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#915 - December 10
09/12/13 21:35 Filed in: BitDepth - December 2013
The Trinidad and Tobago Film Company launches a film festival just for smartphone users. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#914 - December 03
02/12/13 18:32 Filed in: BitDepth - December 2013
Blackberry has had some ups and downs. Now there's a new new man at the helm, can there be a new future? Click here to read more...
BitDepth#913 - November 26
25/11/13 21:23 Filed in: BitDepth - November 2013
Can imagination be codified and planned into development? The discussions around that were quietly challenging of that reality. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#912 - November 19
18/11/13 21:44 Filed in: BitDepth - November 2013
Nicole Phillip Greene wanted to find out what she could do with her children. Then she wanted to share that information. Then she did a website, then she created an app... Click here to read more...
BitDepth#911 - November 12
11/11/13 21:43 Filed in: BitDepth - November 2013
Thirty-five years ago, Orson Scott Card turned an award winning short story into a remarkable and long-lived book, now there is a film, Ender's Game. How does it fit into the Enderverse? Click here to read more...
Aardman's Peter Lord
11/11/13 21:21 Filed in: BitDepth+
An interview with Peter Lord, one of the two founders of Aardman Animation, famous for their clay based stop motion animation for Wallace and Grommit. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#910 - November 05
04/11/13 20:28 Filed in: BitDepth - November 2013
There are lots of gimmicks which get pressed into service to make websites more exciting. Making webpages responsive though just makes sense in a country that's increasingly accessing the web on mobile phones. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#909 - October 29
28/10/13 21:06 Filed in: BitDepth - October 2013
Apple has offered the newest major update to its computer operating system, Mac OS X for free. Why is that? Click here to read more...
BitDepth#908 - October 22
21/10/13 20:36 Filed in: BitDepth - October 2013
What's new in Microsoft's new update to Windows 8? Click here to read more...
BitDepth#907 - October 15
14/10/13 22:25 Filed in: BitDepth - October 2013
Remembering Stanley Marshall, a quiet and patient actor whose work was one of the pillars on which the Trinidad Theatre Workshop was built. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#906 - October 08
07/10/13 19:27 Filed in: BitDepth - October 2013
Canadian film set stills photographer Rafy shares her career path and secrets of the trade with local photographers. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#905 - October 01
01/10/13 00:14 Filed in: BitDepth - October 2013
Digicel introduces cloud and virtualization services to its range of services for its business customers. Click here to read more...
Business Guardian - Samsung
30/09/13 22:10 Filed in: BitDepth+
A report for the Business Guardian on Samsung's launch of its new Note 3 smart phone and Gear smart watch and its plans to increase its presence int he Caribbean. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#904 - September 24
30/09/13 21:57 Filed in: BitDepth - September 2013
Adobe's new Creative Cloud subscription service fundamentally changes the process of buying and upgrading software for the company's professional users. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#903 - September 17
30/09/13 21:57 Filed in: BitDepth - September 2013
Will the pervasive presence of camera phones eventually bring an end to the idea of professional photography? Some thoughts on that. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#902 - September 10
30/09/13 21:56 Filed in: BitDepth - September 2013
An evaluation of Samsung's Gear smart watch and its prospects in defining a new market for wearable computing. Click here to read more...
Samsung's new smartwatch
30/09/13 21:44 Filed in: BitDepth+
News report for the Guardian Business section on Samsung's new Gear smart watch. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#901 - September 04
03/09/13 15:45 Filed in: BitDepth - September 2013
The new Windows 8 Preview tidies up some outstanding issues with Microsoft's new operating system, but will it be enough to persuade users who haven't chosen to make the switch yet? Click here to read more...
BitDepth#900 - August 27
26/08/13 22:09 Filed in: BitDepth - August 2013
F1RST has big plans to lubricate the process of liming in Trinidad and Tobago with a website that combines a number of very useful and proven attributes that have worked for projects such as Foursquare and Yelp. So why are they refusing to open the project to thousands of hopeful users? Click here to read more...
Granger on F1RST
26/08/13 21:44 Filed in: BitDepth+
My full interview with Kris Granger of F1RST about the company's new web project. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#899 - August 20
19/08/13 19:26 Filed in: BitDepth - August 2013
Blackberry announces that it is in the market for a buyer, ending more than a year of speculation about the company's ability to pull itself out of a cycle of decline. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#898 - August 13
12/08/13 19:58 Filed in: BitDepth - August 2013
After more than a decade of reading audiobooks distributed by Audible, a reflection on what the medium has come to mean to me. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#897 - August 06
05/08/13 23:20 Filed in: BitDepth - August 2013
Digitally driven piracy is a global phenomenon, two stories from this country reflect different aspects of tormenting, the engine that lubricates so much of modern filesharing. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#896 - July 30
29/07/13 21:52 Filed in: BitDepth - July 2013
There are bad movies and then there are baaaaddd movies, films so unremittingy and unapologetically awful that they create their own powerful undertow. Sci Fi channel's Sharknado is an outstanding example of the genre. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#895 - July 22
22/07/13 22:44 Filed in: BitDepth - July 2013
In the wake of the collapse of the Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago, journalists gather to consider the way forward. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#894 - July 16
15/07/13 22:45 Filed in: BitDepth - July 2013
Does working with a camera phone have to rotate around the use of Instagram and other effects laden software? Here I try other options for doing straight photography using a camera phone. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#893 - July 09
08/07/13 21:21 Filed in: BitDepth - July 2013
Will smartphones ever replace traditional image capture systems? There are some hard facts about technology that may keep a real distance between pocketable cameras and professional gear. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#892 - July 02
01/07/13 19:27 Filed in: BitDepth - July 2013
DC Comics' flagship superhero Superman makes it to the screen in a major blockbuster film but loses some important elements of his character along the way. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#891 - June 25
24/06/13 21:39 Filed in: BitDepth - June 2013
What an overabundance of retouching may be saying about the relationship between politicians and the public. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#890 - June 18
17/06/13 22:32 Filed in: BitDepth - June 2013
Apple finally gets ready to introduce a radical new upgrade to its professional line of computers. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#889 - June 11
10/06/13 21:13 Filed in: BitDepth - June 2013
What two blockbuster films might be telling us about modern global politics and social issues. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#888 - June 04
03/06/13 22:04 Filed in: BitDepth - June 2013
First impressions of Nokia's new line of Lumia smartphones running the Windows 8 Phone operating system. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#887 - May 28
27/05/13 19:30 Filed in: BitDepth - May 2013
Recent public discussions about authenticating e-mails suggest that it might be useful to understand exactly what kind of information travels with these electronic transmissions. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#886 - May 21
20/05/13 20:44 Filed in: BitDepth - May 2013
Nokia's new Lumia is an intriguing collaboration involving the veteran cell phone manufacturer and Microsoft. Some thoughts about the hardware first... Click here to read more...
BitDepth#885 - May 14
13/05/13 23:17 Filed in: BitDepth - May 2013
Kelli Richards, online digital distribution pioneer, offers advice to local creatives on moving their work online... Click here to read more...
BitDepth#349 -August 2002
13/05/13 22:58 Filed in: BitDepth+
A 2002 BitDepth column about online digital marketing and promotion... Click here to read more...
BitDepth#884 - May 07
06/05/13 21:39 Filed in: BitDepth - May 2013
Putting the new Samsung S4 to work... Click here to read more...
BitDepth#883 - April 30
29/04/13 20:18 Filed in: BitDepth - April 2013
Ready to make a smartphone choice among the many new devices on offer? Some things you may want to consider... Click here to read more...
BitDepth#882 - April 23
22/04/13 22:41 Filed in: BitDepth - April 2013
At CDX2, issues related to government and big data formed a major part of the discussions. Some of the key topics are reported here. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#881 - April 16
15/04/13 20:48 Filed in: BitDepth - April 2013
At the second Caribbean Digital Expo, the discussions were about content and hard metrics. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#880 - April 09
08/04/13 21:53 Filed in: BitDepth - April 2013
Evernote is a great tool to capture notes and synchronize them across platforms, but writers may find it a useful tool for working in workgroups and on multiple devices. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#879 - April 02
07/04/13 00:05 Filed in: BitDepth - April 2013
Wunderlist makes a digital to do list present on multile devices and platforms. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#878 - March 26
25/03/13 21:37 Filed in: BitDepth - March 2013
Samsung's Elias Kabeche, VP Sales and Marketing for Latin America, answers questions about the company's new smartphone. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#877 - March 19
18/03/13 20:10 Filed in: BitDepth - March 2013
Samsung introduces the new S4 smart phone. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#876 - March 12
11/03/13 21:21 Filed in: BitDepth - March 2013
The National Carnival Commission goes to the stakeholders of Carnival to clarify its role. Some suggestions arose. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#875 - March 05
04/03/13 19:34 Filed in: BitDepth - March 2013
CarnivalTV has been fighting to do its work in the festival for two years now. What's been happening with them? Click here to read more...
BitDepth#874 - February 26
25/02/13 21:56 Filed in: BitDepth - February 2013
All the bacchanal about copyright in Carnival 2013 was about money, whether it's real or imagined remains to be seen. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#873 - February 19
18/02/13 19:36 Filed in: BitDepth - February 2013
An open letter to Allison Demas on managing Carnival 2013, Click here to read more...
BitDepth#872 - February 12
11/02/13 21:25 Filed in: BitDepth - February 2013
Is Carnival a collection of traditions or is it a commercial enterprise. Deciding this will define its future. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#871 - February 05
04/02/13 21:20 Filed in: BitDepth - February 2013
Blackberry, formerly RIM, introduces the new Z10 and a new operating system for a new era of smartphones. Is it too little too late? Click here to read more...
BitDepth#870 - January 29
28/01/13 21:13 Filed in: BitDepth - January 2013
Thinking about backup hits home when a drive goes away suddenly. Thoughts about backup systems and strategies. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#869 - January 22
21/01/13 22:45 Filed in: BitDepth - January 2013
HP brings its new enterprise level storage system to Trinidad and Tobago, sparking some thoughts about deep storage. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#868 - January 15
14/01/13 22:31 Filed in: BitDepth - January 2013
In a bizarre online error, Adobe inadvertently offers public access to its seven year old CS2 suite. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#867 - January 08
07/01/13 22:30 Filed in: BitDepth - January 2013
Cool stuff we learned in 2012. Click here to read more...
BitDepth#866 - January 01
31/12/12 21:42 Filed in: BitDepth - January 2013
Gifts you should have got for Christmas. Clip and save to pass on to your loved one for hints on your birthday. Click here to read more...