Do you trust Google? Should you trust Google? Can you trust Google? Google is on the fast train to becoming an international scandal. In May 2010 it emerged that when the company sent out its roving camera cars to take all those “Street View” photos, it also slurped up any Continue Reading
Twitter Borked
I’ve spent the last half hour clicking a “Download” link in Hotmail trying to get something to… ahem… download, but it just sits there doing nothing. Absolutely sod all. Naturally, I switch to Twitter, fully intending to spout some completely disproportionate rant involving lava and fire and incurable, groin-rotting STDs Continue Reading
Google Launches Chrome Packaged Apps
Google has announced the release of Chrome version 22 to developers. The exciting thing about this version is Chrome Packaged apps: a mechanism which allows web applications to behave much more like native applications, blurring the lines between the two. Packaged apps are installed for offline use by default and Continue Reading
What Makes Modern Business Software?
So what should you be expecting from your business software in 2012? Or to quote Jive Software: “Why can’t business be social?”
Microsoft PixelSense
Last week I berated the company for lacking marketing flair, but this week I’ve been justifyably drooling over Microsoft PixelSense. Things change so quickly in tech. That’s why I love it so… $8,000 is a lot for a glass coffee table with a plasma screen under it, but Continue Reading
Design Student Shows Microsoft How its Brand Should Look
When Andrew Kim was born in 1991, Microsoft were just putting the finishing touches to Windows 3.1 – the operating system that launched the company to international megasuccess. But 21 years later, Andrew Kim is trying to tell Microsoft how their brand should look. And do you know what? He’s Continue Reading
Twitter v2.0
There is a lot of talk around at the moment about Twitter’s new stance on 3rd party applications integrating with the service. Twitter has pretty much banned clone applications like Tweetbot, and went as far as buying Tweetdeck for $40 million. Twitter says it doesn’t want third party developers to “build Continue Reading
How Governments have Tried to Block TOR
TOR (The Onion Router) is a second Internet running inside the existing Internet. It allows people from countries with strict regimes to bypass blocking and monitoring software. This is a video from the guys behind TOR claiming lots of things about how Governments are using Internet surveillance and censorship to Continue Reading