Technology

The saintly Paul Krugman (of whom more later) often helpfully tags his columns in the NYT with the descriptor “wonkish”, or “slightly wonkish”, signifying some more or less baffling piece of economics theory.  I like ‘wonkish’ more than say,  ‘nerdy’, probably because if Krugman likes it, then it’s good enough for me. I mention this…

A while ago I wrote a series of posts on why I really didn’t care too much for Apple and it’s more recent products.  This was matter of complete indifference to Apple and most of the world along with them, but I wanted to be able to articulate explicitly why I found the whole Apple…

Apple’s all-out assault on Android around the world is Google’s biggest problem by far.  And on the day that Steve Jobs retires, it’s looking bad for Google/Motorola, Samsung and HTC.  Very bad…… In the last post on this subject, I covered Google’s problems with Oracle, and noted that the Apple situation was likely to be…

Google’s Android problems with Microsoft and GNU might seem bad enough.  But they are chickenfeed compared to the trouble they are in with Oracle… In the prior post on this subject, I covered Google’s troubles with Microsoft and the Linux license.  I described these as relatively benign, although the problems may have seemed (and are) quite severe.  …

Google is in real trouble with patents, and it could threaten the whole company.  This has been viewed as a background issue which they can make disappear, but after looking at the suits in detail, I don’t think they can.  It’s a giant problem – largely of their own making. In a number of previous posts I have written…

In a previous post I reviewed the Google Maps app for Android and iPhone, and lamented that the brilliant Android-exclusive ‘3D view’ was not yet available for London. In the last few days however, my London Google map app has suddenly sprung into 3D. Watching all the London landmarks pop up on the map, in…