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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Google’s Nexus 7: Will Cheap Tablets Make Android Explode Or Implode?

  By Alex | June 28, 2012 - 2:24 pm | Published
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Google has yet another new Nexus. Hurrah! I think. Or do I? It’s all becoming rather complicated over in Android-ville…
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Tagged ABC, Google, nexus

Private Eyes are watching you

  By Alex | June 28, 2012 - 10:44 am | Published
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Hey, for once, I can totally line up the subject of an article with the act I’m embedding with them. Synchronicity! No, wait, that was The Police, wasn’t it?
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Tagged ABC, Telstra

Is there anywhere you can’t buy a phone?

  By Alex | June 27, 2012 - 4:14 pm | Published
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An awful lot of people complain if they can’t find their smartphone, and roughly every three weeks another “wacky” bit of research suggests that they love their phones more than their partner/cat/dog/children/personal-squishy-bits. The thing is, another phone really isn’t that far away.
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Tagged Hydrapinion, mobile phones

How long should vendors provide software support for phones?

  By Alex | June 21, 2012 - 5:01 pm | Published
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Once upon a time, I used to write a lot of stuff about Apple. Slowly, it seems, I’m turning into a Microsoft writer instead.
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Tagged ABC Technology+Games, Android, Apple, Microsoft, windows phone 8

Surface Tension

  By Alex | June 19, 2012 - 3:16 pm | Published
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Every time a technology company launches a new tablet product, it inevitably gets compared to Apple’s iPad. Hey, somebody’s got to do it…

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Tagged ABC Technology+Games, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, Surface

Mmm… Photography Gadgets

  By Alex | June 18, 2012 - 5:00 pm | Published
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Slowly.. very slowly… my photography is improving. Which means that every once in a while, I get to play with very cool gadgets.

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Tagged connect X2, eye-fi, Geekspeak

Startin’ All Over Again

  By Alex | June 15, 2012 - 2:41 pm | Published
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Or, everything old is new again, as I make a return to where it all started.

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Tagged Advice, APC, Writing

A Marriage Made In…?

  By Alex | June 12, 2012 - 10:47 am | Published
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I wasn’t actually planning to be up for this morning’s WWDC keynote… but then fate, in the form of a six year old having a bad dream intervened and woke me anyway. So I caught up quickly…
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Tagged ABC, Apple, iPhone, Mac

Freelance Frenzy!

  By Alex | June 8, 2012 - 2:52 pm | Published
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So, what did I get up to this week? As has been documented elsewhere, I formally signed off from the editorship of Gizmodo Australia and walked back into the world of freelancing, which means I’ve been slowly getting back into serving multiple masters and producing content, although not quite at the rates I once did.
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Tagged ABC, bit.com.au, Gizmodo, techlife
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