Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) A muted week for the tech industry, following the slew of product announcements last week is not surprising; instead the industry has chosen to dwell and reflect. Let’s look at some of the biggest and best stories from another week in tech. Galaxy Gear fails to find critical approval. Samsung’s first foray into the emerging smart-watch market was released for review this week, with the results sure to disappoint the […]
Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) It’s been a couple of busy weeks for the technology industry after Apple’s expected iPhone announcements last week. This week, iOS7 received decidedly mixed reviews, both Microsoft and Amazon announced new hardware and game maker Valve announced their intentions to take over the living room. Again. Amazon announces the Kindle Fire HDX. Amazon launched two new tablets this week to better compete in the crowded market and to supercede […]
Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) The law of diminishing returns states that after a certain amount of time, return on investment declines — provided you keep the key variables as constants. Though originating in economics, the law of diminishing returns might as well have been coined for the era of technology we live in now. We’ve seen it already with plenty of technology; failure to innovate is failure to stay current, to stay fresh and to […]
Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) Microsoft just gained over 32,000 employees this week after unveiling it’s buyout of Nokia’s Devices and Services division from the Finnish company. The deal, part of outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer’s strategy to refocus the Redmond based behemoth into a devices and services company itself, has been rumoured ever since former Microsoft employee Stephen Elop moved into his position as CEO of the company three years ago. The week’s events only served […]
Miles McCormack Correspondent (Oceania) CANBERRA — Australia’s labor party this week raised global attention with a campaign highlighting the need for a national broadband network in the country. The ad, focused on selling the Australian internet as promised by Labor’s opposition, The Coalition, worldwide. The video has cleverly drawn attention to the fact that internet connectivity and speed is anything but a given in 2013, as well as acting a vital campaign tool for Rudd’s […]
Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) Edward Snowden’s NSA leak is no longer the gift that keeps on giving for news outlet the Guardian, with GCHQ coming down hard on both the organisation and the journalist at the centre of the scandal, Glenn Greenwald. GCHQ’s decision to order and supervise the destruction of HDDs in a forgotten basement of The Guardian’s HQ, as well as the detention of Greenwald’s partner David Miranda under the terror […]
Illustration: Venla Valve Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) Google’s famous motto “don’t be evil” is being increasingly tested by a company apparently set on stretching the definition of evil for it’s own purposes. The company has been in the news this week for it’s avoidance of legal procedures in the UK. A lawsuit filed in the UK by a group wanting to hold Google to account for it’s bypassing of browser settings to track users […]
Miles McCormack Editor (Tech) It is hard to believe that the Pirate Bay is only 10 years old. With the site regularly in the news, it seems like it has been here (or, more to the point, somewhere on the internet) forever. But this month, the Pirate Bay, and the global movement of pirate parties that the site has spawned around the world, has turned 10. Founded in 2003 by the Swedish group ‘Piratbyrån’, […]
Miles McCormack, Editor (Technology) The Onion Router, or TOR, has recently been in the news for it’s involvement in the spate of arrests centred on Child Pornography. But many viewers, readers and listeners have had trouble getting their head around what, to them, is an entirely new concept; an Internet hidden within the Internet? But even for those competent in technology, TOR may be an entirely new concept. Essentially an extra level of processes […]
Miles McCormack, Correspondent (Politics) The FARC, Columbian rebel movement, and representatives from the Columbian Government have met in Cuba this week, in an effort to restore peace to the fractured South American nation, yet reports of a meeting between the FARC and other revolutionary group the ELN will do little to ease the struggling peace process. The talks mark the third such attempt at peace between the populist communist rebels and the Government after a ten-year US […]
