From the monthly archives:

September 2011

iPad market share rises

September 14, 2011

So much for the iPad killers: Apple managed to gain market share in tablets at the very time that many of its new competitors were supposed to be taking that share away, IDC said Wednesday. Having full access to data from the past spring, it found that the iPad had gained share, moving up from [...]

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Good going, Google

September 9, 2011

When Google does something good, it generally does something really good. Like this: By investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy projects and companies, we’re helping to create 1.7 GW of renewable power. That’s the same amount of energy used to power over 350,000 homes, and far more than what our operations consume. What I [...]

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Why Don Norman is right about Google. And it’s no big deal

September 6, 2011

In Don Norman’s talk at dConstruct, he said something that I’ve been saying for a long time: “They have lots of people, lots of servers, they have Android, they have Google Docs, they just bought Motorola. Most people would say ‘we’re the users, and the product is advertising’,” he said. “But in fact the advertisers are [...]

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What’s wrong with RSS readers?

September 5, 2011

Dave Winer should know: If you miss five days of reading the news because you were on vacation (good for you!) the newspaper you read the first day back isn’t five times as thick as the normal day’s paper. And it doesn’t have your name on the cover saying “Joe you haven’t read 1,942,279 articles [...]

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Review: Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad 2

September 4, 2011

Make no mistake about it: the iPad’s on-screen keyboard is actually very good. You can easily rattle off a quick email or tweet with it, and some more proficient users have been known to write several hundred words without their fingers falling off. But not everyone gets on with it, and if you’re a professional [...]

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The definition of “being a dick” in comments

September 2, 2011

Martin Belam: I’d define dick-ish behaviour on a news site as including, but not restricted too: personal attacks, using “amusing” clichés like EUSSR and Tony Bliar, making the same off-topic point day after day, being rude and grumpy and unwelcoming to newcomers, mocking other people’s spelling, bullying and hectoring staff and journalists appearing in the [...]

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The unbearable impoliteness of being, online

September 2, 2011

Why do people feel the need to be abusive online? Why do they believe that behaviour which they would never consider to be acceptable face-to-face is perfectly fine when using the Internet? A case in point: these two tweets directed at Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat: Calling someone a “cunt”? Declaring that you’d like to perpetrate [...]

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