Windows 8 may prove a hard sell in a world of BYOD
Microsoft has arrived at another benchmark on the path to Windows 8, announcing it has delivered its RTM (release to manufacturing) version of its new operating system. Conceived of for a world of...
View ArticleWednesday Grok: Groupon's core business shrinks, earning estimates collapse,...
Oh Groupon, let me count the ways. The daily deals leader never fails to disappoint, even while creating the illusion of success.
View ArticleMonday Grok: Bankers bet Facebook stock would fall while advising clients to buy
So a bloke takes a company from nothing to $104 billion dollars in just eight years and now everyone is calling for his head on a pike. What’s going on?
View ArticleWednesday Grok: No, Apple is not the most valuable company ever
The Web was full of reports yesterday that Apple had finally become the most valuable company is the history of the world. Those reports were wrong, of course. Such is the modern age of media that...
View ArticleMonday Grok: Apple pwns Samsung
Apple’s lawyers totally pwned Samsung’s lawyers. Over the weekend, it was decided by a jury that Samsung basically stole a lot of Apple’s smartphone ideas, giving the world’s biggest company a billion...
View ArticleWednesday Grok: Google dismisses wider war talk after court verdict
It’s hard to imagine a court verdict resulting in a billion dollar damages ruling could be considered a warm up act, but that is the prism through which Apple’s pwnage of Samsung over the weekend is...
View ArticleMonday Grok: Reckon you know big data? You know nothing, they know everything
The US government is spending $2 billion building a data centre in the middle of nowhere — well actually, it’s in Utah — to eaves drop on communications in and out of the US. It is a huge facility that...
View ArticleTuesday Grok: Read, Fire, Aim – Bruce Willis suing Apple story all wrong
Hey Google, if I scream ‘Bruce Willis’, ‘dead’, ‘iTunes’ and ‘scam’ will you show me some love? How many millions of page impression is that worth and what’s the yield? So what if it ain’t right, you...
View ArticleWednesday Grok: 12 million Apple user IDs compromised
Twelve million unique Apple iPhone IDs have been stolen, a million of them have been released onto the Internet and hacker group Anonymous claims that the FBI has a copy of everyone’s Apple ID.
View ArticleMonday Grok: How much does Facebook know about you?
For those of you concerned that companies like Facebook might just be a little too invasive with regards to your personal browsing activities, this story on Business Insider today won’t do much to...
View ArticleWednesday Grok: Zuckerberg finally speaks after Facebook IPO criticism
After months of being corn holed in the tech press and weeks spent enduring muttering about his leadership, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally went public today for the first time since the company’s...
View ArticleMonday Grok: I see dead people — they’re running newspapers
In the Media Diary section of The Australian, there’s a small piece of media industry bonhomie that tells you more than anything about how disconnected from the world of real things the publishers of...
View ArticleThursday Grok: Microsoft and security, Facebook and privacy, Google and social
Sometimes you have to ask yourself why Microsoft even bothers. For as long as Grok has being writing about Internet Explorer, Microsoft has been announcing and responding to security vulnerabilities in...
View ArticleMy Mates PFN app builds privacy into the product
Privacy is moving beyond its traditional role in product development — too often it is viewed as only an issue of compliance. In an era of constant connectivity, it is now a central part of product...
View ArticleLessons learned from building a tech startup
When it's your own money on the line and you're operating without the safety net of a large corporate infrastructure, lessons tend to crystallise rapidly and sometimes painfully. But you also have the...
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