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/ 26 October 2011
Google and Twitter? Daft ideas, really. Groupon? Inspired! But look at them now, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
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/ 14 October 2011
The mobile-phone industry is a brutal business. There may be gold in them thar hills, but it can be painful to extract.
Many believed the technical and business wizard would not, indeed could not, die, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
The age of fully integrated digital ecosystems has dawned, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are carving up the world between them.
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/ 14 September 2011
The internet, with few exceptions, is free. That makes it easy to overlook the biggest hidden cost of the net: electricity.
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/ 7 September 2011
Michael Arrington may not be a household name outside of the technology sector, but if you run a tech start-up, he might as well be a god.
The folks who run Google+ want you to just be yourself and will kick you off their playground unless you use your real name.
The cellphone market is a relentless and savage terrain — just ask Nokia. Not exactly a friendly training ground for an inexperienced owner.
Anyone with a laptop has a love-hate relationship with WiFi. When it works it’s like magic, but too often you find yourself just out of range.
There’s something special about your favourite book shop. The smell of all those crisp pages, the comfy armchairs, those beautiful new covers.