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As much as I would love to have a crystal ball, I don’t have one and I have no other means of peering into the future either. The best I can do […]

How many people out there really know what the possibilities are in the pieces of technology they own? As computer processors have become more and more powerful, we have been abel to […]

As our world gets more and more complicated, we have started depending on technology in our every day lives, and to an astonishing degree. During the last 50 or so years one […]

One of the key things about modern computing is trust. Trust in who makes the devices we use, trust in how secure the system that runs on it is, and trust in […]

Australian police recently warned against navigating around, being guided by Apple Maps. Given the circumstances I can’t say I blame them, nor that the warning was misplaced. For some applications and use […]

Watch nearly any newer Apple event and you’ll undoubtedly see someone talk about the sheer number of available apps on the App Store. Most of the time they mean the iOS App […]

Apps are the new black, or so it would seem if you are to believe people in the industry. It’s the bread and butter of thousands and thousands of people all over […]

Apple does it in iOS, Google does it everywhere, Microsoft does it in Windows 8 and Canonical does it in Ubuntu 12.10; in one way or another let advertising slip into your […]

Many developers nowadays abuse notifications, using them as in-your face advertising, desperate pleas for attention and just “encouraging” you to rate their app. What a load of rubbish! The very concept behind […]

Numbers. It’s all about them, isn’t it? Who has the bigger ones, wins and get all of the customers. At least that was the case back in the jolly 1990s, if you […]

I fairly commonly read about the notion of certain products or even entire classes of devices being “unsuitable for productivity”, or a similar wording meaning roughly the same. This is a wonderfully […]

When you think about all the conventions in all the devices we use today, it becomes painfully obvious just how much is tradition and concepts based on very old thinking. Not all […]

Microsoft recently went public with a little song and dance about how standards compliant their new Internet Explorer 10 web browser is. The main reason for this is that the good folks […]

Try as you might, there is no escaping some things online nowadays. They are not particularly well explained in their purpose and function, and the few attempts I have heard made less […]

Alan Kay once famously said “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware”. We know a few companies who have worked with this ethos, like Apple does to […]

As if it wasn’t enough with the spoiled attitudes I was talking about in the last article, there is more to deal with, sadly. Some people really love to describe their observations […]

There are few things irk me like the technology snobbery that is going around, and particularly in the tech journalism sphere, but otherwise too. Mostly for its more or less complete lack […]

I’ve seen a lot of talk about the Raspberry Pi since its public unveiling and even more since it became available to anyone for purchase. Together with the iPad, and possibly other […]

Sometimes buzzwords are the worst part of writing about technology, no matter which company or which discipline of technology you are focusing on. Eventually even the silliest of buzzwords trickle down to […]

There is sometimes talk about the great benefits of brining the Amazon Kindle into schools, specially with the recently unveiled Whispercast. I don’t have a doubt in my mind that the solution […]