Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay is a writer and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He wrote 1,800 editorial leaders for Guardian Media Limited between 2001 and 2016 and now provides leaders for the T&T Newsday. He writes features and reviews for several publications. His column, BitDepth has examined personal technology issues continuously over the last 27 years. As a photographer, he divides his time between commercial assignments, editorial photography, annual reports and personal projects like Local Lives, which examines the backstory of life and culture in Trinidad and Tobago.

Digital Canopi builds a digital platform for regional authors

For Digital Canopi, Royards and Blue Guruz used an encrypted version of PDF that's only readable in the Digital Canopi app. That addresses the most common blight that assails digital books, widespread piracy.

TT’s legal hurdles to becoming a digital economy

E-signatures and other methods of digital verification are foundation blocks to building a viable digital economy of electronic transactions and digital goods and assets.

The desk job

A laptop forces you to look down at an incrementally small angle, putting a small but insistent pressure on your neck muscles and encouraging your body to become unnaturally hunched.

Choosing the best smartphone

Being clear about everything a user plans to do with the device is important in choosing a smartphone, particularly as a gift.

Rusbridger’s Guardian

What required hand-coding and heavy investments in servers then can now be accomplished for less than a thousand dollars today.

A conversation with journalists who built their own websites to produce news

TT Weathercenter’s Kalain Hosein, Wired868‘s Lasana Liburd and AZPNews‘ Prior Beharry discuss putting their journalism online at a MATT general meeting.

Huawei’s DigitalTT day delivers fuzzy thinking

The Digital Transformation ministry will work more extensively with established local developer resources and create a framework that makes better use of home-grown talent.

T&T media and the blockchain

The blockchain, also known as distributed ledger technology, manages information in discrete chunks, or blocks that are strung together across interconnected computing systems.

TTCS passes 300 refurbished computers donated to schools, NGOs

The TTCS depends on donations to buy the SSDs, replacement batteries, replacement power supplies, CPU paste, WiFi adapters, keyboards, headphones and mice.

Power saviour: Putting a UPS to work

A UPS will run for years if it's kept away from excessive dust and expected battery life is between two to three years before the unit begins to signal a problem with capacity.

Facebook’s Meta play

The company's hopes for creating an equally commanding presence in its singular metaverse also quietly ignores the fact that there are already multiple digital metaverses in operation.

MacOS Monterey is boring. And that’s a good thing

A new Password system preferences pane not only lists all the passwords you've used it warns of vulnerability and breaches that affect your credentials.
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The Global Lense – The one about data and tech stack sovereignty

Most recent technology development appears to be companies outside the region tapping the market within the region.

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Intellico introduces AI agency service with 150 agents

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