The man at Microsoft's helm, Steve Ballmer, is an optimistic guy. So optimistic, in fact, that he plans for a significant proportion of the world's population to be using Windows 8 by the end of 2013. Read More >
He’s a comedy legend of five decades standing, and a fervent advocate for trying new things. But while he’s a happy iPhone owner and has played Q’s offsider/successor in two Bond flicks, John Cleese is by his own admission not much of a gadget freak. Read More >
There were some very awkward quotables during Samsung's Galaxy SIII launch event in London, but none more awkward than this doozy, which was huskily whispered during the camera section: Read More >
Over the past three decades, the internet has changed — and if you're to believe Sergey Brin, the principles of openness and universal access that underpinned it at its conception are under the greatest threat they've ever faced. Read More >
Featured comment by Friar:
"Gah, I forgot to address the point about the 20% of stock disappearing, Darn you edit button!
They may loose 20% of stock, but if that 20% is stock..." More »
Multiple news outlets reported yesterday that AOL planned to kill off its AIM messaging platform—*raises hand*. AOL today has responded with a strongly-worded, albeit off-the-record, "Nuh-uh, not us." Read More >
No one can argue Apple doesn’t make cracking-looking products; whether you love it or loathe it, Apple devices have become iconic. According to Apple’s British-born Senior VP of industrial design, Sir Jonathan Ive, it’s because of a “fanatical attention to detail” and “a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better” not just new. Read More >
Featured comment by nimicitor:
"I loathe them because they make under powered and overpriced crap which they then heavily advertise and force down your throat like a giant cock.
I..." More »
Lots of people have been either excited or baffled by Nokia’s 41-megapixel beast it’s slapped into the 808 Pureview. Firstly there’s Symbian, don’t get us started on that; then there’s the why? 41-megapixels in a sensor that small is just ridiculous – utter nonsense in fact, at least according to Olympus. Read More >
Featured comment by markcgrant:
"I been saying this will suck, but got told I am talking rubbish.
The point is some companies that make phones also make cameras, and they also mak..." More »
Despite having a monstrously large range of tablets on offer, Samsung has never quite captured the market in the way it would like to. Its sales clearly lag well behind the iPad in the UK and the Kindle Fire in the US — and it seems they're happy to admit it. Read More >
Featured comment by Taf:
"A hi spec device on its own was never going to be enough to overtake the iPad sales. The full package Apple offer is more attractive in my opinion.
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The internet is pretty integral to our everyday lives; without it I wouldn’t even have a job right now. But there are quite a few downers to the interconnected world we live in, and according to cybersecurity expert Professor Alan Woodward from Surrey University, it’s broken beyond repair and we should start over. Read More >
Featured comment by stonemanty:
"In a world where theft is justified by calling it 'sharing' and corporations spend huge amounts of money in IP litigation, this will remain a pipe dre..." More »
When discussing the changes between the US and European remotes, Sony's business development chap for Google TV, Ralph Becker, made the above observation regarding the US remote (pictured above). At least RIM has one fan? He also took us through the additions we'll see when it launches in Spring/Summer (or even as late as October?), including the gyroscope and microphone. Read More >
Torrent sites have been having a turbulent time recently, but that doesn't bother BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen. Instead, he's insistent that peer-to-peer sharing is the future of the way we consume media. Read More >
If Kenneth G. Lieberthal were anything but a China expert at the Brookings institution, his travelling-in-China security procedures would read like the product of a paranoid mind that watched too many spy movies as a kid: Read More >
You can't beat an old rocker flying in the face of the man. Neil Young has decided to let everyone know what he thinks about piracy, and it turns out he's probably a fan of Megaupload. Read More >
Terry Gou is the chairman of Hon Hai Precision, the owners of Foxconn. He's also an insensitive dipstick. At the company year-end party at Taipei Zoo he said: "I have a headache how to manage one million animals." HILARIOUS!Read More >
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