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.

A time for the meek

Fear feeds heartily on confusion and misinformation, feasting on slivers of misunderstood and misdirected information.

Huawei’s repositioning strategy

For the corporate strategy, the answer is that our strategy has always been consistent – to serve our customers and meet their expectations without minding going the extra mile

Samsung launches Galaxy Book laptop line

“Why can't a laptop be more like a smartphone,” one of the many presenters asked. The immediate answer would probably be that you can’t put it into a pocket or small handbag.

First steps to a regional Central Bank digital currency

"We cannot outsource our development...the pace of our development is at the mercy of decision makers within and outside our environment.”

Q&A with Shiva Bissessar on the ECCB’s DCash

CBDCs involve various areas, including compliance, which can lead to the development of innovation in ways that more traditional financial institutions can participate in.

Is the new Justice League the end of cinema?

This is an era that’s seen a generation come of age with little tolerance for entertainment that can’t be paused or rewound at will.

New Covid-19 infractions

How exactly do we greet people now? How do we deal with people zeroing in for a level of personal contact that we aren’t comfortable with?

TechCrunch reports on Jamaica’s Covid-19 data exposure

Whittaker notes that government representatives repeatedly ignored warnings from the website about vulnerabilities and instead sought to portray the warnings as intrusions.

The robot pirates

Bots are an integral part of the architecture of the internet, first created to assess the size and number of interconnected computers that comprised the earliest versions of the global network.

The year of living delicately

Stanley Kubrick’s remorselessly eerie interpretation of Stephen King’s The Shining as a lockdown descent into madness wasn’t far off for some.

The Galaxy S21 – Inching toward excellence

Director View is a Covid-19 inspired effort at turning a smartphone into a videoblogging tool that allows a user to put a tiny picture-in-picture view of themselves captured from the selfie camera.

Samsung launches new A series smartphones targeting Gen 17

The Galaxy A series, Samsung said, was the most popular family of devices among Android devices in 2020.
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An app to make co-parenting more accountable

“I built Zuko because everyday matters could become conflict when communication was scattered or misunderstood.”

In a US university film lab, a Trini is working and learning

Most people are pressing buttons. The work is in defining what the buttons do.

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.

Declaring independence from mobile roaming

Most modern smartphones, even those with a physical SIM tray, will also accept an e-SIM.

Intellico introduces AI agency service with 150 agents

The proper use of AI can help flatten the world and make opportunities available to small nations that they could not achieve previously.