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Goodbye Steve

tom — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:09:26 +0000

Steve Jobs died yesterday and I have to admit I’m gutted. A true visionary, Steve Jobs did more than anyone else to shape the digital age. And now that vision is gone. I’ve just written his obituary for my my alma mater, Stuff. I was lucky enough to be at stuff from the birth of [...]

Nintendo 3DS: serious wow factor

tom — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:16:57 +0000

I’ve never been a big Nintendoid, but it’s hard not to be impressed by its new porta-console, the 3DS. 3D games are pretty thin on the ground – Streetfighter 3D seems a little pointless, given it’s still essentially 2D sprite game – but I’m blown away by the 3D augmented reality game built into the [...]

The Daily: Murdoch’s clean slate?

tom — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:43:21 +0000

As you probably noticed, the first iPad-only newspaper was launched by News Corp yesterday. After months of phone-tapping scandal, Rupert Murdoch must be glad to move on. And, having had a quick look at the first edition of The Daily, I’m impressed by the scale of its ambition. Unlike the print-infatuated apps from The Times [...]

From iPhone to Android: My smartphone odyssey

tom — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:00:46 +0000

Or: why I’m launching Life of Android. I’ve been a technology journalist for over a decade. Which means I’ve tested a lot of phones. For the first six years, I had a new phone in my pocket every two or three months. And it was usually a phone so ‘smart’ that it required a degree [...]

Dispatches from Cupertino: Air and Lion

tom — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:41:31 +0000

I’ve just returned from a whistlestop visit to Cupertino, CA, where I witnessed the unveiling of Apple’s delightfully dinky new 11.6in MacBook Air. It’s still pretty low-powered – the 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor is the same as my two-and-a-half-year-old MacBook Air – but the improved graphics chip helps it zing along for most portable [...]

5 things Ping needs. Desperately.

tom — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:46:08 +0000

Apple’s Ping social network for iTunes has the potential to be massive. Enormo-huge. But at the moment, it’s far too limiting. It’s like going to a pub and only allowing you to talk about beer. And only the beer they have on tap, too. And no sharing drinks. If I had Steve Jobs’ ear, these [...]

Apple iPhone 4: the one that goes nuclear

tom — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:53:52 +0000

The iPhone 4 went on sale just four hours ago, but it’s already a massive hit. And I mean MASSIVE. I’ve just returned from central London – I visited six Carphone Warehouse shops and two Phones4U – all had sold out within the first two hours. So I cycled up to Apple’s flagship Regent Street [...]

The Times iPad app: are papers yesterday’s news?

tom — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:02:01 +0000

I paid £9.99 for a month-long iPad subscription to The Times on Saturday. I wasn’t sure what i was going to get – i’d looked at the new paid-for website and found little that sets it apart from free sites from The Telegraph and The Guardian. Apart from a forest of serifs. The Times iPad [...]

The Apple iPad heralds the age of sit-back computing

tom — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:54:00 +0000

With every hour I spend with the Apple iPad, my initial skepticism evaporates a little more. I thought it was a beautiful gadget looking for a purpose. Now I’m starting to realise that it’s slicing a tidy little niche all of its own. The iPad isn’t a replacement for a laptop. Nor even a netbook. [...]

Vote to upgrade the UK’s operating system.

tom — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:39:16 +0000

This has been a thrilling election. Not just because the outcome is so unclear; but because the depressing dominance of the newspapers has been challenged by new media. Ok, TV isn’t exactly new media – and there’s no denying the leaders debates have engaged the voters and thrust Nick Clegg into the limelight. But what [...]