Charlotte Henry

Like other major cities, London has a proud tradition of quirky boutiques, and independent stores. Now, instead of trying to kill them off with online transactions, some of the residents of its start up scene are trying to use mobile technology to save them.  Streethub is a new iOS app launched by London based entrepreneurs…

Which is why it is so odd that Mac Mail continues to be so utterly rubbish.  The service should be a core component of of Apple's OS, particularly if it really wants to continue its upward trajectory in a the business space.  An increasing number of businesses are using Mac, but Microsoft remains dominant in…

This all  makes it rather odd that I’ve never been that excited about having a phone from Apple. iPhones are clearly great devices, but they just never really grabbed me like all the other Apple products have. There's beens issues with dropping calls, and problems with maps too – not quite the perfection  I'm used to with…

The news that Angela Ahrendts has left Burberry to become Apple's Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores really reverberated around tech and fashion circles in London and the wider UK. While some question the decision of a clearly ambitious businesswoman to move from being CEO to being a senior VP, she is taking…

Apple is one of the major tech companies under huge pressure to reveal what it knew about the U.S. National Security Agency's PRISM spying program (as revealed by British newspaper The Guardian) and what information they handed over to the NSA and other security agencies. Despite all the assurances given by Apple, the introduction of…

The debate about web filtering, and what a government should be able to do to prevent child pornography, and children stumbling onto adult images, has been raging in the UK in recent days. Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he wants to make search engines and ISPs block images of child abuse and add filters.…