Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Windows 7 has been a popular talking point for pundits since Microsoft unveiled a pre-beta and provided a fair bit of information about the OS at the PDC 08 conference last month. But is the OS any good? Where’s the beef? Or, more importantly, is there any beef to begin with? To help answer these […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Mars, with your fingers in your ears and humming loudly, you can’t have failed to have heard of “Joe the Plumber.” Depending on who you believe, the outcome of November’s election is either going to be a jackpot win or a crushing blow for ol’ Joe. But […]

I’m willing to bet on the fact that the folks at Microsoft just can’t wait to put the whole Vista mess behind them. When Windows Vista went RTM (Release to Manufacturing) at the beginning of November 2006 it was supposed to be the jewel in Microsoft’s crown. But within days of its release it was […]

How times have changed. A few months ago I was at the receiving end of a steady flow of emails and comments from Mac fans confidently predicting that Apple stock was getting ready to top $200 a share.Today Apple stock is hovering at around the $90 mark. So, what went wrong, and can Apple hope […]

When I first heard that Alaskan governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo email account had been compromised, I was almost certain that the hack was made possible by the “Forgot Your Password” feature that’s present on almost every online log-in system. As it turns out, I was right. Here’s how the alleged […]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Mars with your fingers in your ears then you’ve undoubtedly heard about the backlash by consumers against EA’s long awaited game Spore. In a nutshell, the hostile response centers around the DRM (Digital Rights Management) mechanisms built into the framework of the game, which means that users […]

Google’s entry into the browser market was unusual to say the least. On Monday, while many in the U.S. were enjoying a well-deserved day off, Philipp Lenssen, a German blogger running Google Blogoscoped, received a package from Google containing a 38-page comic book. This was no usual comic book, though. It outlined the features of […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve had reports of brand new iPhone 3G handsets developing minor cracks, of 3G handsets offering poor 3G reception (without 3G, why bother with an iPhone 3G?) and of massive outages of Apple’s latest online venture, MobileMe. Is this a sign that Apple is beginning to reach too far in […]

For me, reading reviews is an important part of almost any purchasing decision I make. OK, I don’t usually trawl the Web for reviews of, say, a coffee shop before I sit down, and I’m usually happy to buy a sandwich for lunch without first needing to see what others think of my choice. However, […]

Canonical, the company behind the Linux distro Ubuntu, has collaborated with software distributor ValuSoft to sell a boxed version of Ubuntu 8.04 into Best Buy retail stores. Is $19.99 a better price point for Ubuntu than $0? There’s been a Linux question that’s been bothering me for years now: why does Joe or Josephine Average […]