Ubuntu is trying desperately to transition from hugely popular enthusiast platform to mainstream competitor for Mac OS X and Windows. It's fair to say that it has had limited success in doing that so far, but much is resting on the latest big release of Ubuntu, which is almost comically called 13.04 - Raring Ringtail.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Losing the TV remote has to be one of the most infuriating things of modern home entertainment, especially now that they have so many buttons on them. Lose the wrong remote and chances are you're left with an expensive ornament stopping your TV stand from floating away.
Many in the music industry may have hated it back when it launched, and some probably still do, but it's arguable that Apple's iTunes Store actually saved music. It may not have felt like it at the time, but iTunes and its DRM may have been all that stopped music from becoming even more of a piracy black hole than it is today.
Everyone should have access to an Apple Store. It's almost a basic human right - like clean water and McDonald’s. But while most countries have some sort of retail outlet peddling products fresh from Cupertino, not everywhere has an official Apple Store.
It's not secret that trying to be like Iron Man would not only lead to the end of all meaningful relationships for the rest of your life, and a perchant for nearly getting killed, but unsurprisingly it also means that you'd need to have a cool $10 billion in the bank to get the whole show on the road.
There's much made about the so called 1%. Vilified by the press and the vast majority of the United States, the 1% represent the 'haves', with everyone else firmly in the 'have not' column.
Google has proven in the past that the search giant is not shy about releasing its apps on iOS. The company fought long and hard to get some of its apps onto its perceived competitor's devices, but with Google's business model relying on everyone using the internet as much as possible, it's little wonder that it simply wants to make that as easy, and as enjoyable as possible.
Facebook home is certainly the talk of the town right now, both thanks to the recently released HTC First handset and the equally new Facebook Home software release for Android. As is always the case with such highly interesting and well reported technology news, a comic strip has cropped up based on it.
Whatever your thoughts on Windows Phone 8 might be, it's hard to argue that it doesn't hold a lot of potential. In a world where iOS and Android rule the roost, it's refreshing to see something like Windows Phone, whether it's your choice of mobile operating system or not. The undoubted problem with Windows Phone though, is its lack of quality apps.
A touch-screen phone is cool, but you know what's really cool? Controlling it with your mind! Yup, you heard that right. More details right after the jump.
