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The disruption of pay as you go hardware – and I do not mean leasing

By tim, on December 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Last week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke at a “Fireside Chat” with AWS (Amazon Web Services) chief Werner Vogels. It was an excellent and inspirational performance from Bezos.

If there was a common theme, it was his belief in the merit of low margins, which of necessity keep a business efficient. Low margins

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How Adobe turned on a pin to embrace the web (and Google)

By tim, on October 4th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Create the Web world tour – which came to London yesterday – is in the public unveiling of of Adobe’s new wave of tools, the first since it turned away from Flash and towards open web standard, hardly a year ago.

Michael Chaize is a developer evangelist at Adobe. I asked him when

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IE10 and Do Not Track: ineffective with Amazon ads

By tim, on August 28th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I set up Windows 8 on my desktop PC, accepting the default Do Not Track setting. This is still set:

However I noticed Amazon ads served by Google/DoubleClick on a third-party site that reflected my recent activity on Amazon. I clicked the Privacy link on the ad (which links to Amazon rather than Google)

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Review: Digital Wars by Charles Arthur

By tim, on May 14th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Subtitled Apple, Google, Microsoft and the battle for the internet, this is an account by the Guardian’s Technology Editor of the progress of three tech titans between 1998 and the present day. In 1998, Google was just getting started, Apple was at the beginning of its recovery under the returning CEO Steve Jobs, and Microsoft

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Financial Times thrives on HTML 5, paywall, and snubbing Apple iTunes

By tim, on March 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of FT.Com, shortly after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the FT web app won an award for “Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing”.

I was interested in speaking to Grimshaw for two reasons.

First, the FT is a publication which has successfully managed the transition from

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Google’s Eric Schmidt looks forward to an Android in every pocket

By tim, on February 29th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt addressed the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in confident mood, boasting of the strong growth in Android adoption and saying that the world would need to increase its population in order to sustain current rates of growth.

His keynote was in three parts. He kicked off with a

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How to brew better software: The Monki Gras in London

By tim, on February 2nd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended The Monki Gras in London yesterday, a distinctive developer event arranged by the analyst firm RedMonk.

This was not only a developer event, with the likes of Andre Charland and Dave Johnson from the PhoneGap team at Adobe, Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, and Jason Hoffman with Bryan

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Asus Transformer Prime update: Google video rental or unlocked bootloader, you choose

By tim, on January 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Asus has responded to demands for an unlocked bootloader for its its latest Transformer Prime tablet.

It turns out that DRM is the culprit – at least, that is what Asus says on its Facebook page:

Regarding the bootloader, the reason we chose to lock it is due to content providers’ requirement for DRM

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ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year

By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon, and

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Google and the UK Citizens Advice Bureau – an uncomfortable alliance

By tim, on December 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I picked up a Guardian newspaper today and could not miss the full-page Google+ advertisement. Or was it? The advertisement stated that it was from the Citizens Advice Bureau in partnership with Google. The Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) is a well-respected (and genuinely useful) service which runs a network of offices in the UK where

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