The big news this morning in consumer tech land is Microsoft's unveiling of the Xbox One. Not the big and spectacularly ugly original Xbox. We already knew about those, although I am curious to work out where all the original Xboxes (Xboxen?) that sold… more »

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… more »

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… more »

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… more »

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… more »