pushing the sky

We’ve been here before. I wonder if anyone else recognises it? (Well, I haven’t, though I’ve read about it. Let me explain…) There’s an eerie sense of deja vu about the computer industry right now, if you look at it the right way.  The PC wars were pretty much over by the time I was [...]

Google recently created a page where they revealed government take-down requests for their services, with some interesting figures revealing Brazil topping the list of take-down requests, followed by Germany, India and the United States. Australia ranks 10th with 17 take-down requests, of which Google has complied with 52%. China however considers the take-down requests themselves [...]

It’s amazing how Apple has set the agenda in the mobile phone space, and it’s only been too evident in the last few days. Apple’s iPhone OS 4 event last week not only drew the tech media but managed to splash out headlines across what might be termed, for want of a better word, the [...]

Up until now, it looked like Google was chucking services out there in the hope that it would stick; Google Apps for Your Domain was mostly about getting businesses into the Google hivemind space by appealing to users who wanted to have their home experience of GMail at work too. Almost by accident they managed [...]

On Wednesday, Apple finally unveiled their long-awaited, oft-rumoured Moses Tablet iPad. And Lo, the Fanboys Rejoiced. If You’re Going to Do Something, Do It Well. At least, that’s what I think Apple’s motto is these days, even if it failed a couple of times in the past. Recently though they’ve had a string of hits, [...]

The day iPhone 3GS was announced, I realised that on pure technical stats, it was higher spec than the second computer my family owned, bought in 1999 for a tidy sum – a Pentium III 550MHz with 128MB of RAM and 16GB of disk space. Here Apple was selling a device that could comfortably fit [...]

Geebus, how hard is it to find this somewhere striaghtforward on the net? Step 1: Open International pref pane in System Preferences Step 2: On the Languages tab, click on “Edit List” Your list of languages already in the list might be longer – e.g., it’ll usually have most of the European languages. Step 3: [...]

Ok, we get it, you don’t get Twitter. But you’ve just signed up for it. And your first “twit” is something along the lines of “No idea why I’m here.” That’s a good thing – neither does anyone else, and that’s what makes it something entirely new, and that’s why some people are very excited [...]

Amazon releases the Kindle 2 – I have to say, this looks miles better than the previous model. Ars Technica & NY Times have more – now, when are they bringing this down under?

With the release of the new browser Google Chrome, some people went digging into the Terms of Service you click so fast past, and discovered: [W]hen you download Google’s new Chrome browser, you agree that any “content” you “submit, post or display” using the service — whether you own its copyright or not — gives [...]