Category Archives: Guardian.co.uk
Francois Hollande’s start-down nation
Under its new president, France is unlikely to take an ambitious stance towards startups or venture capital A forgettable election campaign just wrapped up: François Hollande is now the president of France. Time spent on foreign issues during last week’s … Continue reading
Apple puts quality before commodity
The tech giant’s second quarter results are unlikely to disappoint as long as it keeps gross margins high and customers happy There was a time when clever individuals could sustain themselves by exploiting people’s ignorance and anxiety. Augurs studied the … Continue reading
Boot up: phoning Moore’s Law, Kroes says Acta dead, Microsoft v VLC and more
Plus the quote that Apple joiners get, Google calls for Oracle mistrial, impending DNSChanger cutoffs and more A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Two brilliant moves that helped create … Continue reading
Boot up: the truth on Apple and Dropbox, Samsung Galaxy opinions, options on being mugged and more
Plus OpenStreetMap acknowledged, the iPhone that caught fire, best examples of HTML5 and more A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team 25 top examples of HTML5 >> CreativeBloQ Great examples … Continue reading
Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We’re not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b – but with the highest of motives William Shakespeare’s reputation has little to fear from history, but even so it’s nice to know that he … Continue reading
Can RIM afford to make developers wait for BB10?
The paucity of the development tools for the BlackBerry platform let it down compared to its competitors. The improved tools for BB10 might be too late You know how sometimes you can cut the head off a chicken and it … Continue reading
If RIM really wants developers on BB10, it needs better tools
The paucity and complexity of the development tools for the BlackBerry platform gets even worse as you look at BB10. Promising people $10,000 won’t help You know how sometimes you can cut the head off a chicken and it keeps … Continue reading
Boot up: TV viewing, Galaxy S3′s exclusive app, Google+’s mistake, Apple’s TV delay? and more
Plus how to treat your battery, Wi-Fi camera puzzlement, tablet statistics and more A burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team TV and radio as primary and secondary activities in daily life, … Continue reading
Guardian Activate New York 2012 – live
Internet innovators from across the world are to speak at the Guardian’s Activate conference in New York. Follow live coverage of the day here and tweet me @AdamGabbatt 12.30pm: Some tweets from the crowd here: @emaleigh on Adam Sharp’s assertion … Continue reading
Boot up: Apple’s Liquidmetal, Pirate Bay’s traffic jump, the challenge to Google and Facebook, and more
Plus Flashback botnet shrinking only slowly, RIM’s BB10 camera company?, men on Pinterest, Twitter’s glossary and more A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Liquidmetal inventor Atakan Peker: Apple will … Continue reading
Why Twitter put me on the naughty step
Watch out where you click and tame your enthusiasm – or you may get booted out of the twittersphere Until recently, I was a Twitter refusenik. I’ve been on Facebook five years and built up a nice array of friends, … Continue reading
Boot up: Iranian hacking, RIM’s failure?, game theory in games, BYOD v money, and more
Plus LG on Windows Phone, tablet rollout for health workers, Google’s big data cloud offering and more A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Motorola posts Q1 loss, despite rise … Continue reading
Boot up: selling Bing, Gosling on Android, Apple’s malware ratio, mobile’s win and more
Plus how to decide which tax avoidance stories to write, the death of Moore’s Law? and more A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Twitter sets its sights on 2 … Continue reading
Boot up: Apple’s tax schemes, Microsoft’s HomeOS, Google v Oracle redux and more
Plus will you update to the paid version?, the importance (or not) of manufacturing, make your own background music and more A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team We created … Continue reading
Boot up: pi visualised, why Apple won’t be Sony, Microsoft caught out and more
Plus Oracle fails to revive zombie patent against Google, RIM ‘just needs five years’, visualising London and more A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Notebook vendors to push ultra-like … Continue reading
Windows 8? Windows RT? Is this bifurcation Intel’s fault?
So now we know, there will be four editions of Windows 8, all arriving (probably) by the end of this year. There are just two surprises: a small one and a larger one. The small surprise is that the main … Continue reading
Boot up: Android’s real revenue, will Apple be Sony?, SkyDrive everywhere, Bebo sued and more
A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google documents show hopes for big gains in non-search revenue >> guardian.co.uk In case you haven’t seen it: Other documents entered as evidence … Continue reading
Google Drive versus Dropbox and the rest: cloud storage compared
Which is cheapest? Which offers the best cross-platform support? The results may surprise you This week both Microsoft and Google got their acts together and released Dropbox-like applications for their online storage services, SkyDrive and Google Drive respectively. Why has … Continue reading
Boot up: FBI honeypots, Apple results, internet population doubles, Skype on Nokia and more
Plus RIM and Nokia and the valley of mobile doom, Microsoft and the consumer, the Oatmeal on the state of the web, and more A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology … Continue reading
Boot up: who killed The Band?, Motorola v Microsoft, Google Voice v Windows Phone and more
Plus no Skype on low-end Windows Phones, more Mac malware, analysing what happened when Sun GPLd Java and more A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Lack of Google Voice … Continue reading
ZX Spectrum: even the Dexys guitarist was a fan.. and other memories
From the banjo/guitarist in Dexys Midnight Runners to a Polish ship’s electrician’s child to people who now work for Google and others, the humble ZX Spectrum kicked off a life in computing Among those who loved the ZX Spectrum: Barry … Continue reading
Boot up: Chumby dies, does Facebook need a browser?, Oracle v Google recaps and more
Plus what people search for when they search for porn, tweetbombs and attention, Google kills more products and more A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Chumby no more: employees … Continue reading
Boot up: ISPs v piracy, will Windows Phone update?, how WordPress infected Macs and more
Plus Schiller v Instagram, who is Tim Lindholm?, the new narcissism and more A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Verizon: Half of our first-quarter smartphone sales were iPhones >> … Continue reading
Salford scientists reveal the ‘sound of Stonehenge’
Whatever went on there, it would have impressed the ancient Britons. Even if it was only whispering. Salford’s clever academics, who once took me shopping in a virtual supermarket – you sat in an armchair wearing a helmet and a … Continue reading
Boot up: why handsets don’t merge, Ceefax lives!, Ikea’s smart TV, Intel’s tablet ambition and more
A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Hold the phone: message on mandset M&A finally sinks in >> Forbes Tero Kuittinen: The surprise revelation that Oracle considered buying RIMM and … Continue reading