The new iPhone: Apple is the Kim Kardashian of tech, talked about even by...
The ringmaster is dead but the circus rolls on. Apple unveils the latest iPhone this Wednesday. It will be headline news. The annual jamboree of consumerism from Cupertino’s finest always comes with a...
View ArticleApple's business priority should be cleaning out its dark satanic mills, not...
This morning, on my way to work, I came across a disturbing news story. A reporter from the Shanghai Evening Post went undercover in the factory which is rushing to fill the expected demand for Apple’s...
View ArticleiPhone 5: against the odds, Apple have produced another piece of magic – and...
Depending on your perspective, Apple launches are either magic shows or the Nuremberg rallies of tech. Either way, the figurehead that pulled the rabbit out of the hat (or got the troops marching)...
View ArticleWhy Apple's 'boring' iPhone 5 is selling fast while smarter phones aren't
Picture the scene: you’re sat next to a man – it’s always a man – at a dinner party. He has a new phone. He’s delighted with it and the chance to tell you all about its features. This man is boring....
View ArticleApple's moronic new maps: this is turning into a disaster
I grew up in a stranger’s garden in a melting house. At least, that’s what Apple’s new Maps app tells me. Looking up my childhood home on the company’s new 3D navigation software, I discovered it had...
View ArticleThe iPhone 5: the more glass screen there is, the more there is to break
The American independent reviewers’ group Consumer Reports has given Apple’s iPhone 5 its blessing – a stark contrast to its assessment of the iPhone 4 in 2010, which it notably could not recommend due...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy: How Apple's Siri screwed up
Apple’s Siri service was acting like the modern version of Michael Fish last night. As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the east coast of the United States, it professed to have no knowledge of the...
View ArticlePaying for things with your mobile phone – an unsexy technological...
I've never really been convinced by Square, the mobile payment technology pioneered by Jack Dorsey, of Twitter fame. I've often put mobile payments in that same "Nice idea, but it'll never catch on"...
View ArticleIdiots who rely on Apple Maps to navigate deserve to get lost
No fewer than six motorists headed for the city of Mildura in Australia have had to be rescued by the police in the last month after finding themselves stranded in inhospitable terrain. At least one...
View ArticleConnecticut school shootings: since major gun control won't happen any time...
Despite what the bulk of the internet, especially the British internet says, UK-style gun control isn't coming to America any time soon. You might see a ban on assault weapons, or a magazine capacity...
View ArticleApple's arrogance is starting to get annoying
Apple should be a lot more worried about its latest bug than it appears to be. Little mistakes often indicate bigger issues, and that's true in this case. Scheduling the Do Not Disturb function in iOS...
View ArticleSmartphone operators are censoring satire, feminism and homosexuality as...
When you get a new phone, there's a very good chance it comes with automatic filters enabled. For example, it's very common for you have to explicitly request the ability to call premium-rate phone...
View ArticleBlackberry 10: too little, too late. Apple has won
Blackberry. Ten years ago, it was the toast of the business world; it was the must-have accessory – the first real smartphone. If people took one out in public, there would be coos of affection. It had...
View ArticleKids running up bills on 'free games'? As usual, parents want the state to...
There's a big furore being kicked up by a small group of parents who have been stupid enough to let their kids run up huge bills downloading paid for extras on free games. I have literally no sympathy...
View ArticleAn unhackable, uncrackable iPhone messaging app? If this is for real, the...
This morning a ballsy Shoreditch tech firm, Redact, have launched an iPhone messaging app that they say is completely uncrackable, unhackable and totally secure. Unlike a lot of people making big...
View ArticleApple's iOS 7: sure, it looks great, but Apple is now on the defensive
Defensive – that’s the word that rattled around my head as I watched Apple’s top executives celebrate their annual Mass before the tech faithful at WWDC. While the event wasn’t short of the company’s...
View ArticleThe always-on culture: smartphones, stress and suicide
In a week dominated by a high-profile birth, a sparsely reported death caught my attention. Yesterday, Carsten Schloter, the 49-year-old chief executive of the Swiss telecoms group, Swisscom, was found...
View ArticleTinder: the casual sex app that makes us even more vain
On Sunday, I spent four hours looking for casual sex with women my age without even putting any trousers on. It’s all thanks to an app called Tinder, which is taking over the world by promising the...
View ArticleMicrosoft buys Nokia phones: a zombie marriage that seems doomed from the start
When Stephen Elop left Microsoft to become Nokia’s CEO, many speculated he was Microsoft’s very own Manchurian Candidate, a sleeper agent heading to its Espoo HQ to prep it for eventual takeover. Those...
View ArticleA plea to Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google: kill the traditional mobile...
Whatever Apple announces this week, it won’t be what I really want. It’ll be fun to see a new iPhone and, possibly, the near-mythical iWatch, but I want something more radical. I want the tech giants –...
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