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.

You should probably have an EPK

Social Media: Users shoehorn their content into the templates provided and everybody, from company presidents to interns, looks exactly the same.

Hands-on with the Samsung S25 Ultra

Samsung has quietly ushered its largely unloved digital assistant Bixby off the premium space offered with a right swipe on the home screen

The last Carnival column

Managing Carnival using the same structure that was first devised 68 years ago under the CDC seems particularly misguided.

Will UPI change how we shop?

Underlying any significant change to digital payments will be the implementation of a national e-ID system.

Is e-money a solution in search of a problem?

According to the CBTT in its responses to questions, will cost its users "either very little or zero to use.”

The inevitable upgrade

Even forked open source software committed to maintaining usability on older systems was beginning to show insurmountable cracks.

A local AI to meet the cyberbullying challenge

The cyberbullying resource is available to teachers who request it. RSC offers both a mobile app and a desktop version.

Where cybersecurity threats begin: Phishing

Do not submit PII to anyone, anywhere, unless you have initiated the contact and are absolutely clear that you are speaking with/logged into/emailing/form-filling in an environment you are certain is secure.

Samsung launches Galaxy S25 smartphones

The Now Bar taps personal information such as appointments to create an onscreen Daily Life Summary.

The backup challenge

Deletion marks data as erased, but doesn't actually remove it

Moving the government to digital transformation

Is there a digital transformation group in every ministry dedicated to identifying opportunities for transformation and capable of moving actionable projects to completion?

Concepts of a transformation plan

The MDT is trumpeting a national strategy that reads more like a manifesto than a real-world action plan.
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The years ahead will shift toward investing for transformation and sustainable value creation.

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The data centre dilemma

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