Microsoft enlisted former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rob Schneider and disgraced baseball star Pete Rose to denigrate Google Docs in two new videos that posted to the Web Friday. via Pete Rose, Rob Schneider mock Google for Microsoft Office | Microsoft – CNET News. Watch the videos, and try not to cringe. Then shower […]
There’s been a boring amount written about Adobe’s move to the cloud this week, but there are two aspects I think could do with a little more focus. The first is piracy. TechCrunch had a very brief mention of it in their interview with Adobe’s David Wadhwani: One aspect of Creative Cloud that Adobe hasn’t […]
The Next Web: Over the last few months, the Chrome OS notification center was ported to Chromium and then to Chrome Canary, but the feature was limited to just Windows. Now it looks like the first attempts to do the same for OS X, at least in Chromium, have surfaced, paving the way for Google […]
Bill Gates On The iPad via Business Insider: He then said of people using iPad-like devices, “A lot of those users are frustrated, they can’t type, they can’t create documents, they don’t have Office there.” I think this is a clear indication of how out of touch and isolated from the real world Microsoft can […]
The Verge covered the recent Acer touch event, and put together a nice little video I’ve embedded below. Is there anything in this video that doesn’t look like utter crap? The R7 has the weirdest design, and not in a good way. Will it ever be possible to use the trackpad without either cramping your […]
Who would have predicted this a few years ago? It’s a Windows 8 advert which uses the fact it can play a year old iPhone game as the major selling point. And this ad has been airing, a lot. The world may be going mad. If this were a Windows Phone advert, I’d kind of […]
I’ve been really enjoying the Government Digital Service blog. It represents a transparency that I’m not used to from governmental organisations. It’s not only that, they’re doing some genuinely interesting things. As a huge proponent of agile software development, it’s interesting to see its principles applied to the lumbering juggernaut that is the UK government. […]
Spanish tennis player David Ferrer sent a tweet out to his more than 350,000 followers noting his pleasure with using Samsung’s new Galaxy S4, but accidentally sent the message from his iPhone. via Apple Insider. The article mentions some other examples, but the one I’ll always remember is Oprah. Despite buying 12 Microsoft Surfaces, Oprah […]
From the “Pro” section of Techcrunch’s Galaxy S4 review: Acceptable battery life Surely that’s the very definition of something that’s not a pro, but just merely acceptable? That’s like putting “Has microphone” as a pro. They’ve set the bar pretty low here, which is actually a reflection of where most Android phones are, especially those […]
Andy Baio on Yahoo closing upcoming.org: So, Yahoo’s finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo’s typical fuck-off-and-die style, they’re doing it with 11 days notice, no on-site announcement, and no way to back up past events. It’s difficult to argue with Yahoo’s decision to close […]