04 May 2005

The advance of the machines

Delightful story in the Herald about how MSPs will each be equipped with a BlackBerry at a cost to public expense of £40,000 (say £300 a head).

I confess to some doubt about how many of our esteemed tribunes will know how to use this equipment, but there seems to be a lack of justification for the centralised purchase. Why not ask those MSPs who want a BlackBerry to buy it out of their office allowances?

For technophobes: a BlackBerry is a small device about the size of a mobile phone which enables the user to access and send e-mails while away from his or her computer.

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