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09 June 2010

Market crap

Apple’s ‘value’ exceeding that of Microsoft is an illusion, says JASON WALSH

05 May 2010

News of the world

Newspaper designer and editor of the web-mag, The ColdType Reader TONY SUTTON on the future of news in the digital era

04 May 2010

Cult zero?

Is Apple saving us from the tyranny of Adobe or enslaving us in a Huxleyite passive future – and why will no-one admit computers are broken, asks JASON WALSH

23 April 2010

Access denied

The era of the ‘paywall’ is upon us but publishers need to provide something worth paying for, says ADAM MAGUIRE

13 April 2010

There is more to creativity than coding

Just because you cannot programme a computer does not mean you cannot create, says JASON WALSH

05 April 2010

2010 – No Space Odyssey

Space isn’t just a vision, it’s a place we should be going, says TIMANDRA HARKNESS

26 March 2010

My tech, not theirs

Why do we have to ‘break’ information technology devices to get them to do what they were supposed to do in the first place, asks TERENCE J. LAVERTY

20 March 2010

Google: neither good nor evil

Google is a business and that’s why it acts the way it does – so why single it out for critique?

19 March 2010

Spinning the wheels

TIMANDRA HARKNESS reports on a supersonic car project that might revitalise engineering

04 March 2010

Science, politics and the public

The UK government’s science policy isn’t just contradictory, it’s used a stand-in for politics, says science journalist TIMANDRA HARKNESS

27 February 2010

Less art, more aesthetics

Aesthetic experience matters in all other aspects of life so why do software developers treat it like a frivolous luxury?

11 February 2010

Information doesn’t want to be free

It doesn’t want anything, says Australian IT professional JONATHAN WALSH. It’s what we want that matters

Apple’s ironic interface

As ‘lickable’ and beautiful as today’s information interfaces are, JASON WALSH longs for the Rodchenko-like simplicity of the modernist-inspired early Macintosh computers

02 February 2010

Technology journalism failure

IT journalism is crap, says JASON WALSH

29 January 2010

Anti-Apple fanatics need to grow up

The anti-iPad backlash is as tedious as Apple worship, says JASON WALSH

22 January 2010

forth elsewhere: the Twitter ‘terror threat’ and European airport security

forth editor JASON WALSH reporting for the CS Monitor

20 January 2010

forth elsewhere: You have the right to remain silent – otherwise we’ll arrest you

Why personal communication should be personal, in Global Comment

19 January 2010

Windows 7 doesn’t exist – and neither does Snow Leopard

Since when were software upgrades worth partying about, asks JASON WALSH

18 January 2010

forth elsewhere: British police arrest man under terror legislation for internet joke

Paul Chambers arrested under controversial law and banned from airport for obvious joke, report forth editor JASON WALSH and MARK HUGHES in the Independent of London

30 December 2009

Changes we choose

Contemporary communication technology is virtually miraculous, says STEPHEN GINN. But let’s leave the decision-making to the humans

26 November 2009

Will Google’s Chrome OS be dead on arrival?

Google’s Chrome OS could already be out of date, says Adam Maguire

23 November 2009

Free labour

Jason Walsh is in favour of free software, so why does he have a problem with the worlds of open source and free content?

04 November 2009

forth elsewhere: technology will set us (partially) free

forth editor Jason Walsh writes in the new Irish site teic.ie about technology’s potential to free humanity

25 October 2009

Overt operations

Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard have both been released to much public fanfare – god only knows why, says Jason Walsh

08 October 2009

Stallman on the future

In the first of a series of essays entitled ‘What is to be done?’, free software activist and computer programmer Richard Stallman gives his thoughts on the state of the world and what should done about it.