The Nokia renaissance
07/04/2011 • Nokia is about to introduce the N9 to market, giving us a taste of what could've been if the company had stuck to its guns instead of committing to Microsoft. ...more
An interview with Mark Shuttleworth
07/08/2010 • Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS is a major release of the operating system Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical first released in 2004. In this interview with Simon Dingle Shuttleworth discusses the significance of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, competitor operating systems, the move to cloud services, open source advocacy and how it has changed in recent years, application distribution, social networking, smartphones and other topics. ...more
Talking World Cup tech with Leo Laporte on TWiT
06/12/2010 • On the eve of the World Cup 2010 kickoff in South Africa Leo Laporte and I discussed technology at the ...more
Why I won’t be quitting Facebook today
05/31/2010 • Today is Facebook Suicide Day. What I suspect is a very small group of Facebook users plan to delete their accounts along with all their personal information residing on the social networking service. The reason they're doing this is due to Facebook's shifting privacy policies and what seems to be a personal problem with the company's young CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I won't be deleting anything today except a few press releases in my inbox. But that doesn't mean I approve of Facebook's user privacy policies either. ...more
Apple’s cloud caper
05/27/2010 • It wasn't long ago that Apple and Google were allied against Microsoft and the broader market. The marriage of the ...more