Author: Alex

Apple overnight announced a drop for lower-earning app store developers, effectively halving its commission rate from the start of next year. That sounds like good…

Super Mario Bros Game & Watch, Nintendo’s first Game & Watch in 29 years is now available — if you were lucky enough to score a pre-order — and already folks are hacking them and complaining that there’s simply not enough games on the unit to make it worthwhile. I think they’re missing the point.

So, I’m largely writing this to take my mind off the pending American election, which I’ve been spending far too much time watching, reading and…

It’s going to be an interesting week ahead, especially if you follow US politics. This is somewhat fuelling what optimism I have. Also, just HOW…

We absolutely take the idea of mobile phones for granted these days, but it really wasn’t that long ago that they were utterly experimental technology…

I’ve been seriously busy this October, and as a result haven’t been updating around these parts with anywhere near the regularity that I really need to be. How busy, I hear you ask? This busy.

Apple’s “Hi, Speed” event was, as expected, a flurry of new iPhones and a new HomePod Mini speaker. Here’s my early thoughts about what Apple got right — and what it didn’t.

Google’s updated its baseline speaker — unless you count the Nest Mini 2nd Gen — with the promise of studio-quality audio at an astonishingly low price. How well does it live up to those claims?

Telstra’s finally dipping its toes into the fixed 5G/NBN competitor space, but why? And what’s exciting — or less so — in Google’s new range…

Telstra’s finally dipping its toes into the fixed 5G/NBN competitor space, but why? And what’s exciting — or less so — in Google’s new range of Pixel devices and Nest speakers?