James Silver is a journalist and screenwriter. As a journalist, he specialises in technology, the media, advertising, business and news/magazine features. He has written more than 400 articles for national newspapers, magazines and Websites including The Observer, WIRED magazine and The Guardian and he covers the London tech business scene for Informilo, a magazine which publishes at major global technology conferences. He has also written for The Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Spectator, Total Politics, The Independent, The Evening Standard, Press Gazette, Media Week, BBC News Online and Sky News Online.

LATEST ARTICLES

20 Ways to Keep Your Internet Identity Safe from Hackers — The Observer

Do you use the same password for all websites? Do you overshare on Facebook? If so, you’re a target for cybercriminals – whose computer scams are costing Britain £27bn a year. We asked experts for their top tips to beat the fraudsters By James Silver The Observer, Sunday 12 May 2013 Cybercrime costs Britain £27 billion a year: don’t make it easy for the fraudsters. We’re high up in the Gherkin in the City of London and Garry Sidaway, director of security...

Funding the Robot Revolution — WIRED

Interview with Dmitry Grishin, By James Silver There’s something of the Victorian freak show about the World Maker Faire — a three-day annual makers’ jamboree held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York. Pasty-faced inventors and weekend drone-builders peer out from stalls. Billboards advertise “Ultimate Fighting Wearable Body Combat Puppetry”. A giant spider called Scarpia, tack-welded from galvanised sheet metal and baling wire, glints...

Poised and Patrician, a Retail Revolutionary — The Times/Raconteur

INTERVIEW The man in charge of the John Lewis Partnership tells James Silver how his company is bucking the economic trend to be Britain’s retail success story When the John Lewis Partnership announced its most recent results in March, they appeared not only to defy the doom-laden headlines, which have plagued the British high street since 2008, but economic gravity too. Group gross sales? Up by 9.3 per cent to £9.54 billion. Group revenues? Up by 9.1 per cent to £8.47 billion....