The week kicks off with a couple of columns. First up, at PC Authority, I look at the pricing and plans for 3G “MiFi” style Modem/Routers: Best Value Pre-Paid Portable 3G Wi-Fi Modems: “Whether you call them MiFis, Portable Routers, Battery Routers, Portable Hotspots or merely “that thing that I use to connect my stuff …
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It’s all in a day’s work for an in-demand technology journalist, really. You should see what it’s like around here when I get really busy.* First up, CNET.com.au has a review of a nice product that doesn’t seem to have a particular niche in mind. Hitachi LifeStudio Mobile Plus: “Hitachi’s Mobile LifeStudio has an interesting …
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Musings on good and bad products permeate today’s offerings. First of all, there’s my contribution to a group article over at PC Authority on the worst products ever: The worst products we’ve ever reviewed… “You’ve probably never heard of the Fish PC. There’s good reason for that.” Then at Hydrapinion, the bad product matrix spins …
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It’s a question with an ever-evolving answer, but the broad answer is usually that as a freelancer, I’ll work for anyone who’ll pay the bills*. Which is why I’m concurrently across so many titles, both online and in print. As an example, this month’s PC User magazine has a lot of my content. I’ve tested …
The sticker shock of the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab took a lot of people by surprise, myself included. Then I discovered that it’s actually slightly worse than it seems. I should tip my hat in the direction of fellow journalist Darren Yates, as the article spun out from a Twitter discussion I was …
Another day, another raft of Apple announcements. Of course I was going to write something on them, although it’s a little different from my usual all-in-grab-bag analysis of everything announced. Instead, I’ve posed a question over at PC Authority: If you had $1000 to spend on an Apple product, which one should you buy? “We’ve …
Things were so much easier when I picked subject lines based on what I was listening to at the time. Still, the above subject line does make sense. Of a sort. Firstly, the T-Shirts, over at PC Authority, where I’ve looked over Internode’s new “T-Shirt” 1TB broadband plans: Internode enters the 1TB race with “T-Shirt” …
I was actually going to take today off as a sick day. Dropped everyone in at their respective places of work and education, and headed home to spend the day in bed getting better. But then the phone rang. Again and again. Couriers started turning up, and it became clear that my plans to recover would …
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Today, it’s all about data, data, data and waves. First up at Hydrapinion, I opined about the odd nature of Optus’ latest data promotion: Hydrapinion: Half price data pricing makes half as much sense: “I mean, really, which sounds better to you — the ‘fake’ 4 to 8c per MB, or the actual 0.5-1c per …
That’s broadband data, that is. Not so much Brent Spiner, if you know what I mean. In this case, another analysis of broadband plans article for PC Authority, looking at this week’s announcement by Optus of “off-peak” mobile broadband plans: Optus launches off-peak Mobile Broadband – but is it good value? “We crunch the numbers …