When did you see your first netbook? I spotted a fellow commuter tapping at an Asus Eee PC 701 not long after its October 2007 debut, and I was impressed: powerful enough for basic tasks and smaller than any laptop I’d ever seen, it seemed like a genuine innovation.

You can’t have failed to notice that Sony is having a bad time of it right now.

First the PlayStation Network is hacked and customer data jeopardized, and then we discover that the Sony Online Entertainment network has suffered the same fate. There has been plenty written covering the what and why of the breach, so there is little point looking at that again.

I’m more interested in how Sony responded right after identifying the violation. Did the gaming giant get it right concerning disclosure in this case?

The cost of home telephone and broadband services could come down after telecoms regulator Ofcom moved to reduce the wholesale price. This is good news for local rural businesses where so many are home-based these days. Whether or not business tariffs will follow suit remains to be seen.

It has revised the list of rates that Openreach, which manages BT's network, can charge other providers for using its services.

In some cases, the wholesale price could fall by more than 10% per year.

People are starting to ask me about HTML5 because they’ve heard about it and been told by ‘advisers’ that it is the latest mechanism for driving down development prices due to its (anticipated) ease of deployment and cross-browser coding. Also as a workaround for Flash being completely invisible to iPads!

Some aspects are already in wide use such a some design and layout features: transparency and borders being a couple.