Technology

Apple vs Sony
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on Sony’s upcoming products which are posed to challenge Apple’s beloved iPhone and the “revolutionary” iPad.  The article explained that while Sony had a rocky past and mixed success with both its cell phone and gaming divisions, its newest portable devices are meant to offer [...]

You may remember a previous post of mine about the real-time web and various emerging technologies that will enable the transition for older technologies into this frontier. I mentioned how Twitter could be useful in Google results using Greasemonkey (which Google have since implemented themselves) and also how RSS was a dying technology in terms [...]

The latest tech buzz to get me excited is the news that Google is developing mobile speech-to-speech translation: a real life babelfish! The software would provide real-time, speech-to-speech translation to a smartphone, and will hopefully be ready in two years. The reason I particularly love this cross-over between  sci-fi and reality is that I spent [...]

In the space of a few days two great features caught my eye, as they will make the lives of webmasters so much easier.
Long awaited Site Verification Sharing
I couldn’t be happier to hear that Google added a long waited feature to their Webmaster Tools Site Verification process. Previously if more than one person needed to [...]

As from today (1 March 2010), Microsoft is legally obliged to start advertising alternatives to its web browser, Internet Explorer (IE), following an agreement reached with the European Competition Commission (ECC) in December 2009.
The ECC’s case has been running since 2008 and Microsoft finally signed on the dotted line on 16 December to offer alternative [...]

I’m always on the lookout for something reliable to help me enter text quickly on mobile phones. I have high hopes for voice-recognition software but I personally can’t see it happening here any time soon.
Given their diminutive screen and keyboard size, a tool to aid text input on mobile phones would be really useful, [...]

Something came to my attention this morning and I must be honest, I have mixed feelings about it, but I can see the practicality of it. Microsoft’s information manager (their term, not mine), Outlook, now provides its users with the ability to connect to their social media profiles straight from the email client.
It was announced [...]

The tablet computer, which is generally defined as a computer format with wireless capability and a touch screen, is not a new idea.  Arguably conceived from science-fiction television shows, often seen in Battlestar Galactica for instance, these computers are seen as lifestyle tools.

So when the design savvi, hugely successful, technology company Apple Corporation recently announced [...]

And when I say dominates… I do mean dominates.
Data from a survey by GMSA has revealed that Facebook accounts for nearly half of all the time people in the UK spend online using their phones.
Mobile phone users in the UK spent around 2.2 billion minutes browsing the social network – in December 2009 alone.
The closest [...]

Google has stated that they will suspend support for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) on its Gmail and Calendar services from 1 March 2010. This comes after Google admitted hackers had breached their network, and stolen information.
Google is not the first or last institution to adopt the policy of getting rid of IE6. Germany and France [...]