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Category: Hardware

  • Skypephone changes everything

    Skype, the internet phone service, is all about disruption. I remember thinking, when I first started using Skype back in 2004, that here’s a small, nimble company that will drive a massive wedge into traditional telephone service business models. From…

  • First impressions: Sony Vaio SZ4XWN-C

    In my search for a new portable computer, it wasn’t too hard to succumb to the allure of a Sony Vaio SZ series notebook. I’ve bought the SZ4XWN/C model. Ordered it online from PC World Business late last Tuesday night;…

  • Do I get a Dell, a Sony or something else?

    I’ve held out but I now have to face the inevitable – my venerable IBM T30 Thinkpad laptop just doesn’t deliver the goods any more and I have to replace it. It’s been a terrific computer during the past four…

  • The iPhone’s global credentials

    As drooling (and criticisms) over the iPhone continues apace in the US, here’s something you probably won’t know unless you disassemble your $600 gadget – the iPhone is stuffed full of European intellectual property, according to the Daily Telegraph: Wolfson…

  • The only tech PR news is iPhone

    One of the questions we had in Monday’s FIR #252 came from Doug Haslam via Twitter: Should any PR people with consumer tech products even bother pitching this week? Or will it be all iPhone all the time? I recall…