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As the world aims to get greener and parking tickets get more expensive, this could be an interesting alternative form of transport for all you city slickers

A GPS Bluetooth enabled, ergonomically designed bike with a carbon fibre body, weighing only 16lb.

If you think this is the future of cycling and have a few quid spare, you've got 15 days left to invest in the company, as it raises funding. 

Vanhawks Valour | First ever connected carbon fibre bicycle - pledge

So could this be a cats eyes moment investment opportunity or a lame duck?

Satnav in a bike, can see it being useful in cities. I don't ride far enough to have a need for satnav 

bahh humbug.... 

Anyone got a fire extinguisher?

Done specially for this forum by our resident cartoonist and illustrator Jan Sitek

Have things changed or do we just sound like our parents? Discipline or techniques may have changed, lingo, slang and fashions change, but are kids in general any less respectful than they were 20, 30 or 40 years ago?

I'm a firm believer in the benefit culture has a lot to answer for, which is finally getting addressed (only out of necessity), and we are too PC as a society. But I think there has been a lot of good over the years, and I suspect there are more opportunities, and the quality of education is prob higher than it was 40 years ago. 

Removing the modern hoodie stereotypes, there have always been gangs of feral kids, and plenty of disrespect. From Mods, Punks, chavs, scrubbers, pick a label depending on which generation you come from. Then we have had a continual stream of youths over the last 10 years fighting for their country showing that they deserve our respect.

But I do think there is an underlying fear of the PC modern culture, and kids should get a clip round the ear from a copper, or a kick up the arse from a teacher

Stumbled over this one when checking our analytics.

Has anyone noticed the name changes?

So visits are now sessions, and unique visitors are now just called users.

It sort of makes sense, a single user may have a couple of sessions open to the same website (2 browser tabs) and these may generate a number of pageviews each.

So nothing has actually changed, Google has just decided to re-label analytics's with new terms, and a pageview is still a pageview

According to the Guardian, Trinity Mirror has seen its digital revenue rise by 50% as traditional newspaper advertising falls.

The newspapers are really starting to embrace the net, and sites like the Guardian, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail are becoming ever more popular.

I wonder if we will see a decline in traditional print, or if digital revenue will one day subsidise traditional papers?

I suppose it depends on how the younger generations access their news, will it be on a device or is there a future for the humble newspaper?

Blimey, the news is alive with this story this morning. Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse are set to merge in a deal worth £3.8bn.

It's an interesting strategy. I think the Dixons group has been struggling for some time with confusing messages and brand identity.

We used to have a Currys Megastore and a large PC world next door to each other which competed with each other on price, and the Currys store used to stock loads of PC's, with PC world stocking loads of TV's. Never made any sense. Then someone had the genius idea of merging the 2 stores into one building and calling it Currys PC World 

With the Dixons Hight Street brand, these seem to have their own identity as Camera, gadget and technology shops, but competition from online retailers sealed their fate.

The new group apparently is going to be called Dixons Carphone. The concept is very clever, technology is evolving all the time, TV's are now smart devices, this trend will move into all white goods and home appliances, so combining the last major High Street white-goods provider with a phone company makes sense.

But is it me, but from a marketing point of view, aren't some of these names and brands sounding obsolete?

PC World has outgrown it's original name, it should be mobile device or tablet world  Our new combined Currys and PC world is really just a large Currys Store. One ones side are IT gadgets and computers, on the other hoovers and fridges. I think having all the PC World sign-age up over the IT side of the shop is pointless, and if you talk to one of the sales guys, they'll happily flip between a laptop and walk you over to a stereo if that's what you are interested in.

Locally, everyone I know just calls it Currys. What about carphone warehouse? Carphone brings mental images of the 1990's and car boot installations.

You'd think they would just stick with a Generic recognisable brand name and simply just have Currys Stores. Maybe Curry Mega stores or local ones depending on location and size, but at least the name is timeless and crosses multiple markets. 

Or just call all the stores Dixons again 

I'm no email expert, and prob talking cobblers, but it sounds like you have a mixture of settings between devices, maybe POP and IMAP. To synch, everything should be configured as IMAP which is what mail services use to synch, versus POP which just downloads your messages. I had a similar problem years ago on my laptop.

I must admit, I thought when you configured Gmail, it was auto configured as IMAP, but might be worth checking your settings just in case.

Go into settings > mail,contacts > gmail mailbox > account > advanced (under the SMTP tab). Should see IMAP settings there.

Likewise check your samsung device and see if that's using IMAP.

Got one from Interflora today reminding me it will soon be my birthday!?

In case I want to send myself flowers 

erm... 999 "Is that the Police?"

Think it's time to start saving up for the Swiss Finishing School for young ladies...