iPhone 5C: if Apple produces a cheap phone, it could wipe out its rivals
Apple is making an announcement tonight. Even if you’re only vaguely aware of technology news, you’ll know that. Across the web, sites have been frothing with ‘news’ stories on minuscule rumours for...
View ArticleiPhone 5S and iPhone 5C: Apple just took mobile phones to the next level
I’m an Apple fan. But I was a Nokia fan once and I’m a friendly acquaintance of Android. What I wanted from tonight’s iPhone event was a phone that could shake up the industry. What I got was TWO...
View ArticleiPhone 5S and iPhone 5C: I don't care how cool they are, what about the...
The new iPhone may have taken things to the next level, as Mic Wright says, but they’ve ignored the real issue afflicting us all: the battery. The shiny new devices (as phones are now boringly called)...
View ArticleThrough a Google Glass lightly: Google's new gadget is unsettling but brilliant
I was sceptical as I walked into the vast penthouse at Google’s London headquarters today. I was there to try Google Glass, the company’s wearable computing device which has captured the imagination of...
View ArticleiOS 7: Apple is still building brilliant products for 'the crazy ones'
iOS 7, the latest incarnation of Apple’s mobile OS which powers the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, is released today. It represent a milestone for the company’s mobile efforts. This is the first iOS...
View ArticleiPhone 5S finger scanner hacked – within three days of launch. Is anything...
Well, that was quick. Last night, at 10pm, the hacker collective Computer Chaos Club put out a press release saying they had cracked the iPhone 5S biometric fingerprint reader using easily available...
View ArticleHow did Blackberry get away with being rubbish for so long?
Sometimes things fail, and it’s not because of market forces or bad luck, it’s because the product is just rubbish. Blackberry, once the pioneers of having loads of stuff you don’t need on your phone,...
View ArticleWill Apple's new iPads be joined by the iWatch? The iPhone 5S holds the answers
Apple leaks. Apple teases. Apple tells us a lot with little clues. The Apple press game is just that: a game. There’s a strain of conspiracy theorist whackadoo in comment sections – made up of the sort...
View Article'Sorry, I don't take cards'– the phrase that's costing British business £12bn...
It's happened to me three times in the last fortnight – once, when buying my girlfriend flowers, once when getting home from an airport in a taxi, and once when staggering home and trying to buy a...
View ArticleHow to use your phone like an old person
Gone are the days where it was acceptable to be a baby boomer without a smartphone, tablet and social networking profile. Now, old people (sorry guys) are taking to technology, and using it to bond...
View ArticleHas someone invented an iPhone app for sex pests?
A new iPhone app, Jetpac city guides, launches this Thursday. And there's something potentially very creepy about it. The app uses impressive big data technology to rate locations by analysing every...
View ArticleWhy is your smartphone screen so dumb?
I recently fell out of love with my smartphone. What had previously seemed like a charming selection of apps on my homescreen had become a labyrinth of folders and icons, most of which I never touched....
View ArticleCalm down, freedom squad: Cameron's 'porn filter' is hardly blocking anything
I'll be the first to say that government-mandated web filtering is a terrible idea, fuelled by dangerous ignorance of what the internet is and how it works. However, it's only worth getting angry about...
View ArticleUnless the iPhone 6 is amazing, Apple will become an ordinary company
Yesterday, Apple announced its sales figures for Christmas. Only Apple could announce one quarter revenue of $57.6 billion, and see its shares fall by as much as eight per cent. It seems the normal...
View ArticleGoogle's hunt for an Apple-killer has taken it to some strange places, but it...
It doesn’t take a tech expert to spot that Google has been acting strangely lately. Strapping computers to your face, launching self-driving cars, buying military robotics and AI companies — none of...
View ArticleDislike the latest iOS? Then Apple assumes there's something wrong with your...
Apple has released version 7.1 of its iOS operating system for iPhones and iPads, addressing issues with usability that caused a landslide of negative comments at launch. Tweaks to the user interface...
View ArticleSmartphones have all converged into the same dull, homogeneous monochrome...
I upgrade my iPhone every time a new one comes out, and have done for the past four or five years. It’s not really because I need to, or because I’m particularly desperate for some new feature Apple...
View ArticleFor the foreseeable future, your smartphone battery won't last longer than a...
In the six years since we were all walking around with little bricky Nokia phones, we’ve come to enjoy many of the aspects of having a supercomputer in our pocket – but the fact that battery life will...
View ArticleHow many deaths do we need to see before we take action on mobile tech and...
Conflicting reports continue to rumble about whether police will indeed now seize mobile phones from all accidents, in a bid to further cut the numbers of people injured or killed by those calling,...
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