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For the most part, we take for granted the software & hardware on and in our computers, our mobile phones, video games consoles, within our kitchen appliances and our automobiles. We accept and then ignore their presence. Yet without them, the very world we live in would be drastically different…

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Ballmer tries to blow Jobs at the WSJ D8 conference but just sucks instead


Look around you — people with gadgets. Many of them sporting an Apple logo. If you owned a Microsoft gadget, would you even know, or even care? And therein lines the digital divide between Apple and Microsoft — the former is all about people and latter is all about numbers…


Google looking to Wave power for a better Buzz?


All of the buzz about Google Wave has turned to a ripple since Google Buzz made a big splash in the same social pool. What gives? An internal strategy of innovation that looks for all the world like endemic mismanagement…


Twitter lists give the finger to #followfriday?


“Sorry, you’re not on the list.” Oh, the burn. And if you’re on Twitter, the indignation is now monumentally public. But then I’m reminded of what my mother told me: it’s not quantity but quality that counts. And sometimes, the who is better than the what…


Google’s Chrome OS to make ‘net appliances shine?


Google Chrome OS is Google’s long-rumoured entry into the operating system arena. On the whole, Google are doing a good thing. But could Chrome OS also herald the dawn of the ‘net appliance?


Microsoft’s Bing beta lacks search badda-boom


Microsoft Bing is being billed as a “decision engine”, and if my experiences of Bing are anything to go by, the only decision I’m making is to go back to Google…


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