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Barry Collins
Barry Collins has been a technology writer, editor and broadcaster for more than 25 years. He was assistant editor of The Sunday Times’ technology section, editor of PC Pro and has written for more than a dozen different publications and websites over the years. He’s made regular TV and radio appearances as a technology pundit, including on BBC Newsnight, ITV News and Sky News. Now a senior contributor at Forbes.com, he also presents and produces tech-related podcasts.
- British courts to hand out eBay-style justice Minor legal disputes to be settled by online courts modelled on eBay
- Flipboard arrives on the web The app that turns your social feeds into a magazine is now available via your web browser
- Shell lets customers buy petrol with PayPal Drivers allowed to pay for petrol via their smartphones from April
- EE tops hotly contested mobile speed charts RootMetrics report claims EE remains the UK's best mobile network
- How fast is the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phone? Videos show stuttering performance from the first Ubuntu phone on the market
- MPs call for social media banning orders Racist users of Twitter and Facebook should be banned from the services, say MPs
- The ten best IFTTT recipes - Make your life easier We reveal how to automate almost anything you do on the internet with IFTTT
- 2016's smartphones: 4K video and "console quality" games ARM lays out its plans for its next-generation processors
- Kindle Convert: turn paper books into eBooks (the hard way) Amazon software turns paper titles into eBooks - with some considerable effort
- How to stop young kids watching unsuitable videos on Vine Twitter's six-second video service launches a kids-friendly app
- Amazon Fire Phone now just £99 SIM-free - still £99 too much Fire sale: Amazon attempts to flog off failing smartphone, but be warned, as the phone is still locked to O2
- Police fear Waze satnav could be used by cop killers Police chief calls for Google's satnav app to stop revealing the location of his officers
- How Apple scuppered the design of the Google Nexus 6 Former Motorola boss reveals how Apple forced Motorola to ditch fingerprint reader
- HP Stream 7 drops to £75: how much cheaper can tablets go? Pay attention bargain hunters: HP's compact tablet takes a 25% price cut
- HP Pro Slate 12: a giant Android tablet with a neat trick HP's latest slates can digitise your handwritten notes