The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
2014
49 posts
2014 49
December 2014
- Start up: Do Not Track dying, Android’s lost money, EU’s VAT problem, AdBlocking? surprise!, Xiaomi laptop = fake, and more
- Analysis: another BlackBerry quarter: there must be a horse in there somewhere
- Start up: Coolpad’s built-in malware backdoor, LG v Samsung, Rockstar’s patent fizzle, Google’s PR spin game, and more
- Start up: Google gets lyrical, Snapchat clone killing, the stolen smartphone business, and more
- Start up: Samsung ChatON going off, USB apps for iPad, the ‘uncanny valley’ for algorithms, Sony hack history, and more
- Start up: so who did hack Sony? Apple on Pay, Pegatron workers, BlackBerry’s phone timing, and more
- Start up: smartphone epochs, UK buyers slow on tablets, OnePlus faces India patent suit, Uber redux, and more
- Start up: periodic Health, iPods not guilty, Xiaomi’s reprieve, Samsung’s pay plan, Sony’s TV squeeze, and more
- Start up: who knows what about you?, smartphone tracking, slim your iPhone photos!, Xiaomi’s razor margins, and more
- Start up: how much (little) ‘Happy’ earned on Pandora, Sony hack spills on, ‘inception’ mobile hack, QNX trumps Microsoft, and more
- Start up: goodbye Windows Phone, Panic get iCloudy, Google’s long deal, how the cyberwars started, and more
- Start up: India blocks Xiaomi, Chinese app habits, Office gets Bing, hacking smartwatches, and more
- Start up: Sony-signed malware, robots watching videos, Nexus 6’s lost finger lock, are tablets desktops?, and more
- Start up: pace of change, Anonymous’s guitarist, how first-time users view smartphones, Uber defended and more
- Start up: Google kills Pirate Bay apps, Uber in the spotlight, Secret to pivot?, Microsoft Band five weeks on, and more
- Links: self-driving cars in the rain (oh dear..), iBeacon in the Louvre, the unseen digital ads, bitcoin gets easier, and more
- Links: Galaxy S6 chip problems?, Sony hackers reveal film pay, WhatsApp’s Italian divorce, and more
- Start up (2): LA schools iPad subpoena, Yandex wants Google antitrust, are you a codebreaker?, and more
- Start up: streaming stick wars, land sale hotspots, iPhone 6 grabs phablet market, Ring calls back, and more
- Start up: make like Apple?, Samsung sells off fibre optic, authors v Kindle Unlimited, Amazon’s PR push and more
- Start up: Android bloatware, did vinyl really sell?, Samsung shakes up, and more
- Start up: Chromebooks beat iPads, Netscape’s growing pains, OnePlus’s India problem, Nexus 9 before and after, and more
November 2014
- Start up: Google’s Europe problem, spyware (and Syria), why do bigger bras mean larger sales?, and more
- Start up: Twitter’s app suck, Share That Economy!, Uber’s permissions overreach, solar panel boost and more
- Start up: tablet slowdown, find that toilet!, does live music pay?, BlackBerry’s iPhone offer, and more
- Start up: Uber’s vanishing blog, Samsung’s shrinking S5 sales, Google’s secret car, and more
- Start up: Uber debated, iPhone ruining Christmas?, Amazon Echo reviewed, (more) Android clipboard malware
- How Gresham’s Law explains why news sites are turning off comments
- Start up: Apple and Samsung split $300bn, Shazam v music biz, Lookout: Android malware!, sapphire tales and more
- Start here: Firefox dumps Google, 50m Lumias?, Galaxy Note v iPhone 6+ screens, Uber accounting, and more
- Start up: Roombas v dogs, native v web redux, Intel’s mobile loss, Samsung slims, and more
- Switch (or: what will the fourth wave of mobile carriers be like?)
- Facebook ad pranking, Samsung’s design wars, Wirelurker arrests, web: alive or dead?, and more
- Links: why Google split Inbox, BBM’s Indonesia problem?, Glass’s cloudy future, iPad Air v Nexus 9, and more
- Links: tablet woes, Samsung <3 BlackBerry, YouTube's advantage, US gov's iOS Masque warning, and more
- Links: EC v Google, iPad Air GPU, forget Shingy!, should (could?) AOL buy Yahoo, Samsung v NVidia and more
- Links: why Taylor Swift really sold 1m, Android user tries an iPad Air 2, robot AI risks?, what slowed Samsung’s metal phones, and more
- Links: iOS Masque attack, Shingy?!, Lenovo struggles, explaining #RTBF, Apple’s second comeback, and more
- Links: Office365 rebates, Box unboxes, Wirelurker’s lessons, LG G Watch R tested, and more
- Friday links: ecommerce discrimination, Android’s year class, WatchKit, free Office, and more
- Links: Xiaomi profits, Samsung Galaxy 6 codename, wearables forecasting, and more
- Links: Nexus 9, Nexus Player, the homeless near San Jose, concrete failure, and more
- Links: $1m NFC hacking, illegal iPhone 6s in Korea, why Taylor Swift’s off Spotify, and more
- Links: how two-factor gets hacked, Microsoft Band, Page’s ambition, too-smart TV?, and more
October 2014
- Links: MCX’s ever-downward spiral, Apple nixes PCalc widget, ID theft site was sold credit data (and more)
- Links: US virus scam, CurrentC’s woeful policies, when crowdsourcing goes wrong, and more