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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.
Few people can name the CEO of Toyota, or LG. But how many of us know who runs Apple? Most ordinary folks have no trouble naming him.
For an industry focused on the future of information, the internet is surprisingly prone to old fashioned maladies, such as superstition.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. For months the tech press has swirled with persistent rumours that News Corporation is selling MySpace.
The news that Android is "crushing" Blackberry and Apple is bound to spark off a holy war between devotees, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
It’s one of the most important pieces of technology in the modern world, a secure gateway to all the wonders and conveniences of the internet.
What’s the favourite sport of Silicon Valley billionaires? It’s not Segway polo (although that is still popular), it’s patent infringement lawsuits.
If you’re one of the planet’s approximately 1.6bn Microsoft Windows users, then chances are you’re pretty used to viruses.
When does a market go from being a "growth sector" to a bubble? As with falling in love, it’s hard to put an exact date on the event.
Your data is not safe. While you sit in that chair reading this article, you are sending tiny snippets of information about what you’re reading.
We’ve just launched a new way to comment on stories on the <em>M&G</em> website, and we want to introduce you to some of the new features.
You might not think of Facebook as a direct competitor to a comparatively stately search engine, but the guys at Google certainly do.
Looking at Felicia Day, you’d never guess that this petite redhead represents the single biggest threat to the global television industry.
Few realise that Amazon doesn’t consider other retailers its big rivals anymore. No, Amazon is competing directly with the likes of Apple and Google.
One of the web’s great news titans has again succumbed to the allure of the pay wall, which isn’t always a good idea, says <b>Alistair Faiweather</b>.
Behavioural economist Dan Ariely and Sarah Szalavitz revealed the results of their recent study on cheating at the South by South West conference.
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/ 24 February 2011
The US’s distrust of China is playing itself out in the most unlikely of battlefields — including mobile telephony.
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/ 16 February 2011
It might have seemed like a match made in heaven: the world’s greatest software company teaming up with the world’s leading cellphone manufacturer.
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/ 9 February 2011
Arianna Huffington must be smiling from ear to well groomed ear right now. You would be too if you’d just suckered a struggling internet giant.
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/ 2 February 2011
For most users, the internet is infinite. It seems odd that this boundless cyberspace could run out of addresses, but that’s what’s about to happen.
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/ 24 January 2011
Important security announcement for all <i>M&G</i> readers who visited our site between Friday and Monday morning.
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/ 20 January 2011
There was a lot of excitement in the tech press last week when it emerged that, the Cabinet had finally chosen a standard for digital terrestrial TV.
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/ 12 January 2011
It’s like a plot out of a spy novel: a powerful government issues a secret subpoena to an internet service for access to private information.
We’re pretty used to hearing outlandish valuations on internet companies that, if they were people, would be barely out of nappies.