A new wave of wifi devices have been hitting the shelves over the past few months. They are designed to solve the problem of poor wifi reception when your main router is not up to the task of covering a large house / office. They use a technology called "mesh networking". So what is this technology, and do you need it?

All support for Microsoft's unloved "Vista" operating system will be ending this month. While support continued to be offered to organisations stuck on Windows XP users (assuming they were willing to pay for it), no such support will be made available to Vista users.

The next big Windows 10 update (dubbed the "Creators Update") is due to launch on April 11th. It will be made available as an automatic compulsory update from that date.

You may remember that Samsung had to recall all of their Note 7 phones from consumers and withdraw it from sale last year when it transpired that the battery was prone to overheating. With the recall now complete, the phones were sent to a recycling factory in China...

This month's jargon busting blog is slightly different. Rather than explaining a concept, we're going to just list a series of abbreviations that are frequently used online along with their meanings. Of course, the nature of these things means that they evolve on an almost minute-by-minute basis, so some might be out of date before I've finished typing it!

According to research by BT released earlier in the month to promote Safer Internet Day, many adults are unaware of the meanings of the abbreviations and emojis that the younger generation are using online.

G.fast is something you may well have not even heard of yet. However, it will be an increasingly big thing in the UK over the next few years. So what is it?

You can't fail to have noticed annoying prompts / pop-ups / flashing banners asking you to click to allow cookies appearing on many websites over the past few years. It appears that the EU lawmakers have seen sense and are planning to do away with this requirement anyway.