Computing

When I got my replacement iPhone 4 I was a little anxious about, well, using it. Perhaps it was just a reflex learned through having shards of glass stuck in my thumbs, but for a good five days the thing barely came out of my pocket compared to before the tarmac 'incident', and when it did it was in its bumper.

Since then things have rapidly reverted back to normal, and now I seem to be over-compensating. I don't even bother waking it from sleep half the time, I'll just take it out, ...

I've been using my iPad a whole lot more lately as the opportunities to whip out the MacBook Air have been fewer and further between. This weekend I'll be on the iPad almost exclusively; that's a scary thought for somebody who hasn't had a day away from a 'proper' computer in about 7 years.

As a consumption device the iPad is already succeeding, as can be seen by people offering their first born sons for one. But a lot of us a creators, not just in the sense of making content for ...

The form factor of the future of computing for the medium term has been decided. It was decided the first time a mobile phone shrank to the size of a trouser pocket and we've been on course to realising the 'computer' aspect ever since.

There have been many false starts on this road to truly pocketable computers. Most outlandish were probably Nokia's claims of mobile phones as multimedia computers with the launch of the NSeries in 2005. While these devices had many of the capabilities ...

As a general observation, I've noticed an increasing amount of anti-Google sentiment around the web, mostly in comments but also on TV (that BBC2 programme about the Internet focussed heavily on Google's domination last week) and in the news. Today it's Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao's turn, as he suggests that there are choice implications when what he's really screaming is *somebody regulate this giant before there's no ad revenue left for the rest of us*. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...s-google-power ...