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Google and Europe's petty lawsuits
Every so often, some European body sues Google for doing its job as a search engine by directing people to sites they are trying to find. That was recently the case with a group of German publishers.
In reality, over the years...
The search for the truth behind Apple’s Lightning digital AV adapter
Sending video from your phone or tablet to your TV is a very useful ability, and many options exist for doing so wirelessly – though most existing solutions are highly compressed and quite laggy. Obviously, a wired...
Why the Apple iWatch is coming in 2013
Apple's "iWatch" is much more likely to arrive this year than an Apple TV. I've been avoiding the iWatch hype for the same reason I ignore the yammering about Apple building a television: Apple works on a lot of projects that...
The Chromebook isn't a poor product, it's just misunderstood
The announcement of the Chromebook Pixel has driven something home for me: People don't get the Chromebook – and by people, I mostly mean the tech journalists covering it. Reviewers and pundits have poo-pooed Google's...
Google Glass: Much ado about nothing
PC Mag’s ranter-in-chief, John C. Dvorak, calls it bluntly a publicity stunt. “It” being the fact that Sergei Brin stated that smartphones are “emasculating”, which taken out of context would point...
The latest Google Glass publicity stunt
In a talk this week at the TED Conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin casually stated that smartphones are "emasculating." He didn't fully elaborate on this point, leaving all of us in the lurch and wondering what the heck he...
Intel looks to the World Ahead
Back in 2006 I got my paws on Intel’s Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The Classmate was unveiled as part of Intel’s World Ahead programme, which aimed to put technology to work in...
Marissa Mayer's future: A Yahoo telecommuter mutiny
The latest tech controversy sweeping across blogs seems to be the idiotic pronouncement by the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, that nobody will ever, ever, ever be allowed to work from home, and that's that.
As someone who has...
MWC 2013: How Nokia made a great looking £13 phone, the Nokia 105
One of the standout phones of Mobile World Congress costs only £13 and can't surf the web. It's the Nokia 105, a simple voice-and-text phone that looks much classier than you usually get at this price point, and I think...
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 clone shows how far white box market has gone
If you look really hard on the dozens of booths at Mobile World Congress, you will be able to see one device that looks a lot like the Samsung's Galaxy Note 2, a phone tablet that was launched only six months ago.
I briefly...
