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.

The default to cynicism

Madoff’s patrician old-world charm won him billions in investments for a Ponzi scheme while Amanda Knox’s quirky response at a murder put her in jail for four years.

John Prince resigns as TATT CEO

John Prince, CEO of TATT resigns

Chrome, I’m gonna quit you, baby

It was once considered good form to build these bits of code to expire after the user left the website, but many cookies in use today are persistent, sticking around in your browser.

The triage on TSTT’s financial heart

The software ran on hardware that was no longer made, and the model of telecoms it had been designed to manage had begun to change.

We mindf***ed ourselves

In Wylie’s book, all his youthful techy friends are misled heroes and the old people are the villains, even when they are painted as charming rogues.

Hassel Bacchus on TSTT’s core office software migration

That concert of alignment that we have now, I don’t think existed in that detail and was as understood ten years ago. I think as a result of that (the approach) was a bit more fragmented.

A Digicel triumphant

Chandrika Samaroo announced that the company had been awarded frequency in the 850MHZ spectrum on the AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) carrier band in July and licensed it in August.

New local FinTech association from IFC

"FinTech T&T is to be a non-profit organisation with the mission to "help transform Trinidad and Tobago into a leading regional FinTech hub."

Digicel Foundation supports deaf and hearing impaired

The project will facilitate the streaming and recording of classes to further complement the Academic Programmes for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired Project. 

What being a paperboy taught me 

Delivering newspapers was a gateway drug into the business of journalism. Years after I began writing, my mother kept teasing me that newspaper ink had permanently tainted my blood.

Avaya makes a bold business move

Data traffic that orginates locally remains local and is routed through TSTT’s servers. For security, all streams are protected with AES 128 bit encryption.

AmCham’s cybersecurity warnings

With more than US$1 billion paid in ransomware demands in 2016 alone and years of work lost in data that remains inaccessible, the cost of not securing networks has sharply risen in the last five years.
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