A recent conversation I had with a business client led to a discussion of online anonymity and some ways to achieve more of it. 

Recently in this column I chronicled the story of the client who survived the loss of her computer because she had planned ahead and had done everything right. 

One of my clients recently suffered an unfortunate loss, the fallout from which was mitigated by her having a very good disaster plan. 

The original French epigram pinned by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in the 19th century is “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”  (The more things change, the more they stay the same).

Planned obsolescence is a widely criticized commercial practice by which manufacturers intentionally build in the expiry of their products so that consumers will be forced to replace them sooner than should be necessary.

Every year at this time I take a look back at the top tech news stories of the year just past.  Of course my list is incomplete, but here are a few I considered worth noting.