Technology news has been a little scarce of late – but just when you thought it was safe to go out in the woods – some news comes along!

One of the biggest email providers in the world today took a Kit Kat break causing a mass of internet jibber jabber.

GOOGLE’s GMAIL is not only used for personal accounts it is also used by many businesses around the world. Today the downside of what is more commonly know as cloud computing became apparent. As the world becomes ever reliant on the internet – today’s Kit Kat break is a stark warning of how much risk is placed on business in the cloud – however I cannot see past cloud computing in years to come.  How many years depends on technology and possibly a little creative marketing!

Virgin broadband 2mb subscribers amongst you will be happy to know that come May the limit will be increased to 10mb – hopefully GMAIL works at increased speeds by then!

A relatively new kid on the block is a music provider called SPOTIFY.

SPOTIFY is a streaming based music service from those lovable Swede’s that provides an incredible catalogue of FREE music with the occasional advert to justify being FREE. U2’s latest album has just been released to the UK too.

The next step in SPOTIFY’s global domination is a soon to be developed application for mobile devices that will allow offline caching while in areas without a signal.

The popular social bookmarking service delicious has received a new makeover.

The look and feel is now rather fetching and in line with the many other sites heading down the 2.0 route.

I am just about to have a proper look at the changes, but already it seems to be mighty fast in comparison to the previous version, which is a massive improvement.

Head on over to delicious and feel the warm glow of 2.0 too!

A quick blog this evening about some very hard working people who have made a difference in theirs and other lives.

The UK Catalyst Awards were hosted and the awards were given to some well deserved recipients.

For a better understanding of the award winners, head on over to the following:

Catalyst Awards Winners

The Revolutionary Award – Wheelies

The Self-Help Award – School of Everything

The Chalk & Cheese Award – FreqOUT!

The David and Goliath Award – Liftshare.com

The Individual Hero Award – Helen Anderson (SWBB)

The Community Award – Savvy Chavvy

The Enterprise Award – Slivers-of-Time

The People’s Choice Award – The Freeconomy Community

The judges also spoke highly of the following – LocalEyes and Harringay Online

OK, so it is time to get to grips with the ever changing world in terms of the digital age.

The internet has provided a platform for the world to converse and collaborate in ways that were never thought to be possible, or were possible, but took un unspecified amount of time to be achieved.

Being someone who works in an IT capacity, one would have felt I would be up to speed with all that is termed to be IT.

However, in the ever changing world that is progressively evolving at speeds that were once thought to be unthinkable, I have to assess which areas to concentrate on more indepthly and which areas to at least know of their existance.

My appetite and enthusiasm to be a part of the digital age was recently arroused at the Digital Media Literacy Summit held at Channel 4 in London this year. It was like having a moment where the light switched on and one realised that there are so many exciting things that can be explored, understood and learned from being a part of the digital age.

OK, with that, I will end my writings for now and learn by acutally playing and exploring some of the technologies and ideas available.