Technophrenia
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Although perhaps not willing to admit to it, many people are guilty of having gone into a shop and used their phone to check if a prospective purchase was available more cheaply elsewhere, including online…
If there was ever any confirmation needed that the tipping point of the PC’s dominance as a computing platform has been reached, the IDC has just provided it with their latest report on PC shipments in…
Every generation laments their soon-to-be replacement for abandoning the prevailing culture and adapting it to create their own. And so it is with the current crop of post-middle-agers who perceive teenagers…
It seems that Facebook is coming to terms with the fact that teenagers are fickle and are unlikely to stay interested in anything for long - even Facebook. In their annual report, Facebook admitted that"some…
It has been estimated that the average person living in a city today will be exposed to about 5000 ads a day. Of course, we are oblivious to the majority of these, but like SPAM, a small percentage of…
In a departure from the usual hype that surrounds product announcements these days, Google last week announced in an almost understated fashion, its first foray into manufacturing laptops. Despite the…
Watching journalists and analysts discuss the rumoured impending release of another gadget from Apple feels very much like watching Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” except of course that it isn’t…
Everything on the Internet is driven by clicks. It is how the value of things on the Internet are measured. The success of a site or an article on a site is judged primarily by how many clicks it got (there…
If you talk about Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs to academics, or even if you read articles written around the subject, one question, actually a statement and a question, will inevitably come up…
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald suggests that Telstra plans to start a trial to shape Internet traffic during peak periods. This has been interpreted as including the possibility of slowing down…