We seem to hear a lot about augmented reality these days. Perhaps not as much as 3d cinema or more recently the World Cup… but still quite a lot. What is all the fuss about and is anyone really doing anything interesting and valuable with augmented reality yet? Come to that what is augmented reality?

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There has been a lot of noise in the past few days on certain social media platforms in response to Apples’ new terms and conditions around v4 of the iPhone operating system. But what is all the fuss about and what is the real consequence if any? Read the rest of this entry »

Google has announced that it is working with several firms on Chrome OS hardware, including Acer, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo. Apparently they have pledged to build machines that will run its Chrome OS. In reality this probably means nothing unless they also pledge to not ship the hardware with Microsoft Windows and distribute products with Chrome installed by default as the only OS. As far as we know, nobody is actually saying that! More interestingly Google have also said it is working with Adobe on the operating system. One could speculate on whether Chrome might be the OS of choice for the next generation of televisions… but it is still early days.

‘Clickjacking’ is a relatively new phenomenon which allows hackers to hide a malicious command behind an apparently innocuous control or button on a web dialogue box.
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