http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/ Technology opinion hydrablog en-AU http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/05/15/5g-ain-t-5g Tue, 14 May 2013 21:31:00 +0000 Alex KIDMAN Carry 1658@http://www.hydrapinion.com/ For many years, Castrol used the advertising tagline "Oils ain't oils" to spruik its particular brand of processed dinosaur. Possibly it still does -- I don't buy much motor oil or, for that matter, watch all that much commercial TV any more. In any… http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/05/15/5g-ain-t-5g#comments http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=1658 http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/05/01/can-chromebooks-bridge-the-tablet Wed, 01 May 2013 12:05:00 +0000 Alex KIDMAN Carry 1651@http://www.hydrapinion.com/ Tablets are incredibly popular right now. Quite phenomenally popular for both work and play, but there's a problem there, and it's the fact that tablets aren't quite as good for productivity tasks as they're normally defined as an equivalent laptop or d… http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/05/01/can-chromebooks-bridge-the-tablet#comments http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=1651 http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/04/24/a-month-with-a-blackberry-3 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:02:00 +0000 Alex KIDMAN Carry 1647@http://www.hydrapinion.com/ Apologies upfront for the lack of a column last week; personal matters intervened. Now, on with the show… I was reminded last night at the Samsung Galaxy S4 launch -- you can watch my 30s worth of opinion on it here -- that there are plenty of premiu… http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/04/24/a-month-with-a-blackberry-3#comments http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=1647 http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/04/10/a-month-with-a-blackberry-2 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0000 Alex KIDMAN Carry 1639@http://www.hydrapinion.com/ Back when smartphones were just feature phones, and, for the sake of borrowing a fine writer's joke, small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri, the number of additional things that your phone could do… http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/04/10/a-month-with-a-blackberry-2#comments http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=1639 http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/04/03/a-month-with-a-blackberry-1 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:00:00 +0000 Alex KIDMAN Carry 1634@http://www.hydrapinion.com/ Here, have some mood music. Now, the first thing you've got to do with a new smartphone is set it up for your own accounts, something I'd already done with a review Blackberry Z10 with very few problems. Having decided to spend a month using the Z10… http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/2013/04/03/a-month-with-a-blackberry-1#comments http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/carry/?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=1634