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Flash drives make laptops more mobile on London’s tube
Unusually, while commuting to the office on the tube yesterday, I used my laptop to work rather than my mobile phone. Two things made this possible: My new laptop has a flash “hard drive” which means...
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Windows 7 on a Mac
After the pain of trying to download Windows 7 and failing repeatedly (you need to use Internet Explorer which installs an Akamai download manager), I’ve installed the beta on a Mac using Boot Camp....
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Arc: Microsoft can do design
Today, I’ve been testing out an Arc mouse, which Microsoft created for laptops. People forget that Microsoft makes hardware — at least mice and keyboards — and has done for years, way before the Xbox...
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Summertime fallout
It’s Thursday, four days after European clocks changed to what others call daylight saving and I’m still finding clocks stuck on GMT. I’ll forgive those without an Internet connection like the wall...
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Favourite Firefox Extensions
Foxmarks bookmarks sync This is the killer feature for me and the reason I’m going to stay loyal to Firefox for now: Foxmarks delivers reliable and secure sync of bookmarks across multiple computers...
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24×7 People and the Rise of 24×7 Social Computing
This post was originally published on my Forrester blog. Too many firms are building their mobile strategies as a mere extension of the PC Internet, and are missing out on what’s now possible when...
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Why “always-on” isn’t
When I started this blog last November I agonised over the name. Implicit in “Being Connected” is the idea of an always-on Internet. But “always-on” is a term that we all use blithely without thinking...
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Post PC and Post TV & Post Phone & Post Print &…
This era is so much more than just a ‘Post PC’ age. Numerous other devices are being sidelined too as both their reasons to exist and their business models are disrupted. Yes, we have switched from a...
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Kindle Fire Will Spontaneously Combust Traditional Media Business Models
I speculated ahead of Amazon’s launch that the Kindle tablet should be called the Kindle 451, from the Bradbury book where the temperature of 451F is that which causes book paper to spontaneously...
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The Rise of Digital Civilizations Will Define Our Post-PC Future
Everyone knows the biggest battles in technology are today being fought by a small number of large organizations. We intuitively know who these great powers are: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and...
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