In England, during World War II, military officers called it their Vade Mecum, the Latin approximate for ”Always with me.” These days, international cognoscenti call it the Book. By whatever name it ...

In the 80s and 90s a Filofax was the ultimate aspiration symbol. The leather-bound refillable diary sent a social cue that you meant business. Just like the pager or the brick phone, it told people ...

In the 1980s, no self-respecting mover and shaker would be seen dead without a personal organiser — and that meant the Filofax. Loose-leaf pages were snapped into a smart leather binder the size of a ...

The Filofax, one of the ultimate symbols of yuppie aspiration, is back, according to retailers who reported sales of the personal organiser have taken off after finding favour with women. It is the ...

The tech world, and Apple's many fanboys, greeted the announcement of a press conference from Steve Jobs this week with excitement. After the launch of the impossibly small iPod Nano, and then the ...