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Back at the end of February I decided I needed to get a pair of over the ear headphones for the office.

In a strange move for a Conservative government, it was announced recently that workers will actively be encouraged to return to the office in order to help businesses such as coffee shops, who rely on the custom of office workers.

Owen Williams writes on OneZero: Apple’s Latest Power Move Steals Web Traffic From Publishers A change discovered in iOS 14 and macOS 11 betas this week suggests that Apple is hoping to quietly hijack and redirect users into its paid Apple News+ service F…

Another day, another news story about Apple’s App Store policies.

The Register on Cambridge University’s decision to shut down their legendary email server and replace it with Microsoft Office 365: This is Cambridge University, though, in Silicon Fen, where there has been a department of computer science since 1937 (when

If you’re paying for something with your data, then that makes data a currency.

Dan Goodin for Ars Technica: The privacy invasion is the result of the apps repeatedly reading any text that happens to reside in clipboards, which computers and other devices use to store data that has been cut or copied from things like password managers

BBC Money Box reports: Ofcom also found most people who use an address provided by their broadband company are former BT customers.

I’ve not yet paid for a Hey.com subscription as I’m a strong believer in owning your own domain name for email, but I have to admit I that find their style of business a welcome change to the norm and reminiscent of what I can only imagine the counter-cul…

The Maximum PC site is still online to this day, as it was when it was abandoned in 2001 On the most recent episode of ATP, John Siracusa referenced once of his early Mac OS X reviews.

An Apple announcement from WWDC 2020: To reduce battery aging, AirPods learn from your daily charging routine so they can wait to finish charging past 80% until you need to use them I have long speculated that the reason AirPods are much more disposable w…

I recently came across the sad news that .net - the internet magazine published its last issue in April 2020. .net magazine was hugely influential to me as a teenager, capturing the excitement of the Internet in the late 90s.

With all the kerfuffle over Hey.com - an exciting new email service from the makers of Basecamp, it’s important to remember that if it takes off, Hey.com will be in a similar position to Apple.

As someone who is fascinated by technology and its societal impact, I often think back to the first piece of technology I remember owning as a child: A Casio Telememo 50 digital watch (photo from the Argos catalog I would have ordered it from).

“Microsoft ‘to replace journalists with robots’” from BBC News Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report.

The Apple Watch is great for many things, but listening to music or podcasts is still problematic.

Linda Geddes writing for New Scientist: You are most likely to catch the SARS-CoV-2 virus by spending a long time near an infected person in an enclosed space.

Bradley Chambers writing on 9to5Mac: The rise of Zoom could be the headline for the 2020 technology scene.

The Apple Watch allows the information displayed while running to be customised.

For a software company, Microsoft has an inconsistent track record when it comes to actually producing decent software.

One of things like enjoy about iOS is the attention to detail and inclusion of features that few people would think to ask for, but that vastly improve our quality of life.

I’ve just discovered this, hidden away in Settings under “Sounds and Haptics” is a “Volume Limit” feature.

I’ve had the AirPods Pro for just over two months now, so I’m posting my thoughts in the hope that someone might find it useful to get a ‘normal’ person’s review.

If you’re lucky enough to own a smartphone these days, as most people do, then you can most likely use it to replace your wallet.

I thought I was just unlucky.

Volkswagen taking the biscuit Within weeks of buying my car, a four-year old 2015 Volkswagen Polo 1.2 TSI SE 5d DSG, I discovered that I would occasionally be presented with an error message while driving stating “Error: Workshop!

It’s been four years since the Apple Watch was released, and I’ve worn a variant of the miniature device pretty much every day of my life for most of this time.

What would the world be like without standards?

When Apple first announced the AirPods there was a lot of hyperbole in the media about them being Apple’s next big ‘wearable’ device.

The iPad Pro is now available, with its much larger screen.

Ever since I was convinced to buy an iPad 4 years ago, I’ve been a massive fan and predicted they would eventually replace laptops for most consumers.

These days, we all carry cameras in our pockets.

Last month Microsoft released Outlook for iPad (based on Acompli, an app it previously purchased).

I’ve been a subscriber to various magazines over the years.

Remember when the iPad first came out in 2010, and the first thing everybody said was it was doomed because it didn’t have Flash?

I was lucky enough to be bought an Xbox One for Christmas, so I thought I’d post some of my initial thoughts.

Incompatible I bought my Samsung laptop well over a year ago, and it came running Windows 7.

I decided to upgrade my Kindle Keyboard to the new Kindle Paperwhite.

Windows 8, by trying to be like iOS and Android and providing a simplified “one app at a time” interface (or more precisely 1.3 apps at a time) means that Windows is no longer good at what Windows was always good at.

I’ve been using the new Microsoft Surface running Windows RT this weekend, so I thought I’d post by initial thoughts.

Despite my earlier post, there are times when it’s wise to put a case on your tablet.

Tablets are billed as “post-PC” products designed to replace the job of a PC for most people.

On my holidays this year I’ve noticed a large number of people donning iPads.

It turns out that this domain imarc.co.uk celebrated its tenth anniversary in April this year.

Last week, both Google and Microsoft launched cloud file synchronisation services.

A few weeks ago, the iPod turned 10.

It’s been around six months since I stopped reading paperback books and moved to the Kindle.

I have been tempted by the iPad for a while now, it seemed to offer the power of a laptop without the inconvenience of a laptop.

So Windows 8 will be all things do all people, a tablet operating system to rival iOS and Android for consuming content, while at the same time a fully functional desktop operating system that we use to create content.

So it’s nearly two years since I got my iPhone 3GS, and I decided I wanted to change.