Could tech tip the election?

The reason is simple, old-fashioned economics, as old as the Luddites. Sir Peter Gershon has been heading the government’s efficiency review. His report, leaked to the Financial Times this week, suggested cutting civil service jobs by 80,000 to save an estimated 15 billion pounds a year. A large bulk of those savings could come from cutting out the people who push around paper, by putting government services online. A simple

Memory capacity sparks a technical revolution

And the ordinarily mundane storage sector is revitalising all sorts of other areas. Recently, Toshiba launched an 0.85-inch hard drive. What possible use could this have, I hear you ask? Well, the drive is designed to be incorporated inside the new generation of mobile phones. Toshiba and others hope mini- drives will replace the more expensive and lower capacity flash memory in handheld computers and mobile phones. Their drives will