As you may have heard on the news recently, or indeed experienced first hand if you're a Neil Young or Joni Mitchell fan that uses Spotify, these two artists have requested their music be removed from the service in a row about Covid-19 misinformation. This blog is not specifically about this, but takes a look how we got here and wonders if there's anything we can do about it as consumers.

Apple recently announced plans to begin scanning user's devices and iCloud accounts for images of child abuse. A plan that, on the face of it, no-one could have a reasonable objection to. So why are many privacy campaigners and mainstream companies including WhatsApp uneasy about the proposal?

Some of you may remember the Little Britain sketch from a few years back. A question is asked of someone at a computer, that person taps away for a bit then says "computer says no" as the end of the discussion, regardless of the answer it has given and the question that has been asked. This actually touches on a very important point with topical significance that we will explore this 3a-Analysis blog.

We're using this month's 3a-Analysis blog do a rare blowing of our own trumpet. It's been a while since we've highlighed any of the projects we've been working on here, so we're taking this opportunity to reflect on a project that we've just put live - a new boutique ecommerce website for Seiko. Minor spoiler: We're very pleased with the results.

Yes, we know... ANOTHER article about this. However, as we'll cover in this 3a-Analysis blog, now is the time to act if there were any solvable IT issues identified by you or your business during the first Covid-19 lockdown. We'll take a look at some of the common problems we saw with some possible solutions. Don't say we didn't warn you!

Given that many of us are having our first experiences of home working, we thought it may be worth us relaying some things to consider having already done this ourselves to varying degrees for many years, and to also cover off some points that have been raised by those working at home for the first time.

As Sonos announce that they are dropping support for some of their older speakers rendering them all but useless, in one of our 3a Analysis series, we wonder if we're sleepwalking into a world in which we'll be forced to constantly replace everything we own long before it is looking long in the tooth

When we wrote our blog detailing the IT-oriented policies contained in the manifestos of the 3 main UK-wide parties back in 2017, we didn't realise the opportunity to repeat this exercise would be presented quite so soon, and yet here we are! So, as we hurtle towards yet another general election, we take a look at the IT commitments from each manifesto.