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.

US gives Huawei the cold war shoulder

Huawei has set sales revenue this year at $125 billion and expects some of that revenue to come from the billions that it has invested in developing 5G infrastructure.

Huawei responds to Google ban

"...services like Google Play & security from Google Play Protect will keep functioning on your existing Huawei device." - The Android Team

At sea with USB-C

The new USB-C plug solves the most infuriating question that’s haunted USB since its introduction – which side is the right-side up.

Facebook wants to boost your business

“We realised that there was an ecosystem that makes use of Facebook and Instagram, and it's easier to build in an environment like that.”

The diversification that wasn’t

A reimagining of the TT economy with a projection to 2030 will have a role for the petroleum sector, but it’s one that should be increasingly relegated to providing cheap energy for diversification initiatives.

BBM goes bye-bye

Facebook's aggressive development of the WhatsApp platform essentially supplanted the role of BBM for a new generation of mobile phone users.

Will Apple News save publishers?

Digital publishers are still operating with the same presumptions that prevailed when they produced a product composed of atoms, the outdated notion they are competing with each other.

Samsung brings its A game

The premium smartphones, the A80, A70 and A50, include the depth camera that gives the S10 series its computational depth of field chops.

SEAsickness

School ended for me with sixth form. I was tired of the whole experience and was keen to do and to learn, not study to an increasingly irrelevant curriculum.

Is the S10 for you?

The new Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor moves fingerprint recognition from the back of the device, where it would inevitably lead to skin oils smearing on the face of the camera (with video).

Scotiabank TT introduces new digital services

These service enhancements were said to be part of an effort to "deepen the bank's relationship with its customers."

The Data Protection dilemma

“People think that cybersecurity is an IT problem, but it's an organisational risk management issue. It's at the intersection of privacy and security that we find the protection of personal information.”
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