Author: Navneet Alang

Navneet Alang is a technology-culture writer based in Toronto. You can find him on Twitter at @navalang

Will Apple ruin our cloud video future?

Aug 3 by Navneet Alang | 3 comments

Ever since they first came about, digital movies have been totally absurd. Not only are they overpriced, they are almost always locked into particular hardware ecosystems. Buy a movie from iTunes and it only plays on Apple hardware; buy the more »

If tech news is boring, blame the free market

Jul 27 by Navneet Alang | 1 comment

“Tech news is so phenomenally boring!” said Gawker‘s Adrian Chen, in the classically confrontational, controversial style of the site. And oh how it’s true. Tech news is boring. Every minute Apple rumor is reported in detail. In fact, each tiny little more »

What is the future of the desktop computer?

Jul 20 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

For years, the desktop computer has been but a shell of its former dominant self. The world went mobile, and that gray box that your co-workers used to call ‘the hard drive’ seemed destined for an obscure life – if a stable one. After all, it was more »

Is Apple an elitist company?

Jul 13 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

In the few brief moments of respite we get from the constant flurry of Apple rumors, sometimes it seems worth something to think about the broader effects a company like Apple has. After all, though there is always much debate about the gang from more »

TeamWox: Making your company more efficient

Jul 6 by Navneet Alang | add comment

Though there are myriad software and services for managing various aspects of a company, they are often divided into components: use one thing for accounting, another for team management, another for internal discussion. It can get a bit more »

Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about

Jun 29 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

For a company that has had trouble understanding social, the response to Google+, the company’s new social network platform, has been remarkably good. But no-one so far has suggested that Google+ will be the proverbial “Facebook killer’. And nor should they. We have more »

Meteroic: Download music and movies to your iOS device

Jun 22 by Navneet Alang | add comment

Apple’s iOS, for all its benefits, is notoriously closed. Particularly annoying about this is that you have no access to the OS’s file structure, which means you cannot download music or video clips from across the web. Thankfully a new iPhone more »

It's time to call it: The Blackberry will never rise again

Jun 22 by Navneet Alang | 19 comments

For the past couple of years, we have been waiting to see whether Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry, could rise to meet the challenge of iOS and, later, Android. And for a while, we were hopeful. Looking at RIM’s past and brand loyalty, more »

Can Nintendo and Sony can save mobile gaming?

Jun 15 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

Only a short while after its release, the Nintendo 3DS, the successor to the most popular handheld of all time, sold a mere 97,000 units in the US last month. That is a big deal. After all, who could have imagined just a few years ago that a new Nintendo mobile console more »

How Nintendo just "out-Appled" Apple

Jun 8 by Navneet Alang | 3 comments

Out of the gate, I should say I realize that comparing Nintendo and Apple is odd. One is a gaming company, the other a general purpose computing and software company. What’s more, while Apple recently introduced a software upgrade, Nintendo announced new hardware in the form of the Wii U. So what possible more »

How Apple could make "iCloud" revolutionary

Jun 1 by Navneet Alang | add comment

Now that we know that Apple is set to announce their “iCloud” service, it’s time to start a-wondering what the service will feature. But while it’s possible that iCloud will simply be your music tracks in the cloud – like Dropbox for audio files – that would be a disappointment. more »

E3 2011: What do Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have up their sleeves?

May 25 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

E3, the gaming world’s biggest show, is almost here. The annual event has become the place for a large portion of the industry’s biggest announcements, and every year, gamers sit with bated breath listening to what will come. Last year, we took a guess at what more »