The Guardian goes iPad
via guardian.co.uk A typically beautifully designed innovation from The Guardian: the forthcoming iPad app. And it's an interesting approach. I have many reservations about the app approach being...
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Tap, tap, tap: a review of the Asus U36J
It's hard to make a laptop stand out these days. Do you go for looks, power, weight (or lack thereof), high-res screen, low-spec-but-cheap? Or do you just not try, and instead offer up a perfectly...
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Steve Jobs: ill-served by an iCloud of hype
Photograph: Apple press website I've just watched on catchup a documentary that went out on Channel 4 last week: Steve Jobs: iChanged The World. Actually, scratch that, it wasn't a documentary, it was...
View ArticleWhat's keeping marketing supremos awake at night?
Are you a marketing supremo? What’s worrying you right now? Chances are it’s social media, and how and why you should be using it. But that’s just one of four challenges facing your marketing peers,...
View ArticleReports of the death of email are greatly exaggerated
Facebook founder and callow-youth zillionaire Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed recently that email is dead. However, that pronouncement doesn’t pass the ancient journalistic “he-would-say-that-wouldn’t-he”...
View ArticlePatents - a war of attrition
Last night a usually grey and ugly tower on London’s riverbank burst into glowing, noisy life as Nokia and Microsoft launched their great white (well, actually, black, and later on, blue and pink)...
View ArticleFree at last, free at last
Blink and you’d have missed it, but during Wednesday’s Autumn Statement, chancellor George Osborne belatedly reaffirmed a Conservative manifesto pledge to open up access to data created by government...
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Smart operators
Shiny: the Nokia Lumia 900, running Windows Phone 7, which was launched at CES in January 2012 Picture: Microsoft This is a crosspost of a piece I wrote at the end of 2011 for Financial World...
View ArticleWhat's on offer at CES? A lot of flesh
Sex sells: you don’t have to look very far to see implicit promises of sex in a lot of advertising. In general, I don’t have a problem with that – I’m not one of the brigade yelling about...
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A few thoughts on SOPA
Wikipedia is dark today. So is Reddit. So are other sites. They're protesting at SOPA, and its sister bill PIPA, now working their ways through the respective US legislative houses. I've already...
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Twitter tattle and the twitchfork mobs
What's wrong with this infographic? Well, everything ... Did you join in the #twitterblackout on Saturday? It was proposed in response to the publication last week of Twitter's policy on removing...
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Why Sky's Twitter guidelines are right
A giant among Twitter users: @fieldproducer's stream Update February 13 2012: This piece was crossposted in The Australian, which I'm jolly pleased about as I'll get a smallish fee and it's nice to...
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Adventures in Windows 8, Part I - a really annoying bug
I took the plunge today and installed Windows 8 on my main desktop computer, the beast I built about 18 months ago. I'd already installed it on my Ultrabook and it's been fine there; in fact, I like...
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Adventures in Windows 8, part II - default programs
I'm going to add little nuggets to this blog as I come across them, and today's nugget is about how Windows 8 handles default programs. This afternoon I clicked a link in an email - I use Outlook...
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Adventures in Windows 8, part III - Exchange partnerships
Control panel in OWA showing ActiveSync devices ... including Windows 8 computers This took me by surprise when I installed Windows 8 and set up a partnership with my Windows Live login, which not...
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Adventures in Windows 8, Part IV - the Start orb, or the lack thereof
This is crossposted from the Guardian's Technology website, where it was posted as part of the resurrected Technobile series. The Metro desktop. Nice, eh? I'm what you might call an early adopter....
View ArticleWill my Kindle crash the plane?
This is the full version of the piece that appears in the Guardian today (and in print, in G2). I originally wrote it much longer as it was a detailed, geeky piece for Technology Guardian, but in the...
View ArticleLiveblogs don't do anyone any favours
This is an expanded version of a point I made in the comments under the piece that sparked this post. The Guardian's thoughtful and well-informed media editor, Dan Sabbagh, today discusses...
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Big data, big demands
This is a crosspost of the piece I wrote for the September issue of Financial World magazine Everywhere you turn these days you hear about Big Data: about the need to manage and store it, mine it for...
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Review: Humax DTR-T1000 Youview set-top box
The Humax box. It's not very exciting to look at This is a crosspost of a piece published on the Guardian website If austerity means ditching your pay-TV subscription, but you're reluctant to lose...
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