A hierarchical representation of digital technologies (larger graphic) and the degree to which they will distract us from our work, as well as themselves.
For example an incoming SMS message will take our attention off an email we are reading, while anything an iPhone does (incoming call, Twitter status updates, etc) will distract us from [...]

A comparison of the virtual keyboards on the Android and iPhones… this appraisal gives the iPhone the nod this time.
A virtual keyboard lives and dies by the details. It’s not that there’s a single feature which makes the iPhone’s virtual keyboard better than Android’s; it’s death by a thousand cuts. A number of small differences [...]

Vint Cerf, “chief internet evangelist” at Google says the next stage of the internet’s development will see it interface with humans – by way of cochlear brain implants – while extending its reach into the depths of space.
His current predictions that the falling cost and rising sophistication of programmable devices will allow the [...]

Ninjawords, an iPhone dictionary app, has apparently been censored by Apple, who have removed words that they feel are “objectionable”.
But Ninjawords for iPhone suffers one humiliating flaw: it omits all the words deemed “objectionable” by Apple’s App Store reviewers, despite the fact that Ninjawords carries a 17+ rating. Apple censored an English dictionary. A dictionary. [...]

After a false start earlier this year (due mainly to one or two over-zealous bureaucrats) Sydneysiders will soon be able to install an app on the likes of their iPhones or Android handsets, which will provide bus, train, and ferry timetables.
The new official app will include more features than existing offerings and will support most [...]

I’m not endorsing the Amazing Girlfriend Manager iPhone app, rather just making mention of it due to the sheer virtue of the fact it actually exists.
Improve your relationships by applying concepts of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) on your girlfriends. Think about your girlfriend as a client! What information and tools you need to improve your [...]

Is there no end to the variety of iPhone apps that are being churned out? How about this one that will calculate your blood alcohol content after a night on the booze, and let you know whether you’d be better off taking a taxi home.
At long last, I have finally found a third-party iPhone app [...]

Terabytes have no doubt been written about the iPhone by now, but this paragraph at Daring Fireball possibly makes for the best iPhone introduction and summary I have seen yet:
If I could travel back 20 years and show my then 15-year-old self just one thing from the future of today, it would be the iPhone. [...]

On the same day I read about the possibility of the iPhone rendering Amazon’s wireless reading device Kindle a white elephant, New York photographer Patrick McMullan announces the launch of a new magazine optimised especially for viewing on iPhones.
Patrick McMullan, noted nightlife photographer for New York magazine among other publications, is set to launch PMc, [...]

If you’d pay $175 for a hamburger, then it stands to reason you’d pay $1000 for an iPhone app that does next to nothing… doesn’t it?
Let’s face it, you’d need to have serious amounts of cash to burn before forking out $1000 for the functionless I Am Rich app, which simply displays a red gem, [...]