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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Neil McIntosh

First Online of the new year

Happy New Year, everyone. It's a Thursday (I'm told) so, naturally, it's /a>Online day. For your entertainment we decided to take a light-ish look at 25 of the concepts we think will be big in 2003. From Bluetooth to Whuffie, I think it makes for an interesting read, but then I would. And we should probably brace ourselves for a deluge of mails pointing out, in some detail, all those ideas we missed out... can I just say "sorry" now so we can all move on? :-)

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