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Just what is technology? While the title might sound like an About.com topic, when I ask the question: “what is technology?” how wide or how narrow do we choose to focus our search? For me, technology is everything that’s man-made and not just the newfangled stuff, with PCB’s (Printed Circuit Boards) and microprocessors…

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Democratizing the future of energy


The production and distribution of energy is about to change for ever. Why? Because in the coming years, we will be the ones producing and distributing the energy. And for those utilities companies who’ve sat at the very heart of the energy infrastructure for so long, they will struggle to survive…


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…


Apple risk chipped ‘n’ flashed iPhone hardware


Apple are rumoured to be exploring the idea of launching multiple models of the iPhone, each differentiated by the software they come pre-loaded with. Sounds like a great idea! But then I hear the words “flash” and “chip” .. and no, I don’t mean the hard disk or the processor…


Technology: how Apple builds a better widget


Technology trends are an awkward animal to predict. What makes a good technology is often the result of solving a bad idea, or an even worse problem. But sometimes, good technology just isn’t good enough…


1 million reasons why Twitter is no better than a street corner call box


Some celebrity challenges someone else to a good-spirited, very public charity face-off, where poor / sick people win. Thankfully, such events aren’t rare, often seen on TV, heard on radio, or read about in a magazine, or on the web, and now on some social network — so why all the fuss for Twitter?


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