O2 spends £30m on network but can you trust them with your smartphone?
Ronan Dunne, the chief executive of O2, told the Financial Times earlier this week that he was disappointed with the way the company's network had performed for customers in London over the last few...
View ArticleThe mobile revolution: how smartphones are putting Sudan at the centre of the...
Last week, I received an email about a problem my company was having with our online shop. I happened to be out of the office, so I pulled out my laptop, plugged in a 3G mobile broadband dongle, and...
View ArticleIdiots who rely on Apple Maps to navigate deserve to get lost
No fewer than six motorists headed for the city of Mildura in Australia have had to be rescued by the police in the last month after finding themselves stranded in inhospitable terrain. At least one...
View ArticleLouis CK is right: smartphones have become a blight on our society
Last week I tried to slap Jonathan Franzen around a little in print. He won’t have realised. He’s in his garret tapping away at his typewriter, drinking some artisanal coffee and despairing about the...
View ArticleWhy is your smartphone screen so dumb?
I recently fell out of love with my smartphone. What had previously seemed like a charming selection of apps on my homescreen had become a labyrinth of folders and icons, most of which I never touched....
View ArticleSmartphones have all converged into the same dull, homogeneous monochrome...
I upgrade my iPhone every time a new one comes out, and have done for the past four or five years. It’s not really because I need to, or because I’m particularly desperate for some new feature Apple...
View ArticleFor the foreseeable future, your smartphone battery won't last longer than a...
In the six years since we were all walking around with little bricky Nokia phones, we’ve come to enjoy many of the aspects of having a supercomputer in our pocket – but the fact that battery life will...
View ArticleHow botnets are spreading from your mum's old computer to your new smartphone
Today, international law enforcement agencies trumpeted their success in disrupting the command and control servers for the Gameover Zeus criminal botnet. However, the botnet that’s been brought down...
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