Author: Navneet Alang

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

Five "Easy" Lessons to Beat Apple's iPad

Aug 5 by Navneet Alang | 24 comments

Whatever you may think of the iPad – whether you believe it to be the savior of old media or simply “a big iPod Touch” – there is one thing that cannot be denied: the thing has been a massive success. By last count, Apple had sold 3.27  million of them more »

Official Research Proves You Waste Way Too Much Time on Facebook

Aug 2 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

You know, when I was a lad, we were always accused of spending too much time “in front of the computer playing games“. Then came email and its capacity to swallow hours of your day. Then, when broadband rolled around, it was just ‘mindless surfing’ that killed more »

Apple, Amazon to be Probed for, Um, 'Probing' Competition

Aug 2 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

So, the Kindle Store and iBooks are going to save books, right? With writers and publishers getting paid and readers able to buy affordable ebooks, this brave new world is a dream in which we read our Kindles and iPads in verdant fields, surrounded more »

Windows 7 Beats Vista Market Share in Under a Year

Aug 2 by Navneet Alang | 3 comments

Despite Microsoft’s occasional troubles – whether the embarrassment that was the Kin or the fact that their tablet efforts may repeat their mistakes – one thing MS is clearly doing right is Windows 7. Case in point: Windows 7 has already eclipsed Windows Vista in more »

Android Overtakes iPhone; Will Steal Apple's Girlfriend Next

Aug 2 by Navneet Alang | 5 comments

*Sniff*. Sorry, I’m getting emotional. It’s just that… they… they just grow up so fast! Yes, our little Android, who just a couple of years ago was just a little babe in swaddling cloths, has now overtaken Apple’s ubiquitous smartphone in sales. Today, more »

How Amazon Just Trumped Apple and iBooks in the eBook Wars

Aug 2 by Navneet Alang | 8 comments

To the surprise of almost no-one, Amazon updated the Kindle recently. It’s thinner, more sleek looking – and, most importantly, cheaper. Way cheaper. In fact, the $139 Wi-Fi only model is almost a third the price of the original Kindle. And rather than that model’s, shall more »

Five Websites That Will Make You A Better, Smarter Geek

Jul 30 by Navneet Alang | 7 comments

Let’s face it, internet chums. For all the wealth of incredible, mind-expanding content there is online, we spend a lot of our time looking at junk. Celebrity gossip. Mindless updates about that new camera that now has 20x optical zoom. Video more »

Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?

Jul 28 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical. After all, for all the worry about how our attention spans are being shortened by the fast pace of the web, or how the internet is full of trash, there is another side. The internet is also more »

Will Wikileaks Rock Traditional Media Too?

Jul 26 by Navneet Alang | 1 comment

Now that 90,000 military documents about US military activity in Afghanistan, you can almost be assured that some revelation will come out that will embarrass or worse. But what will Wikileaks do to traditional media? After all, had these more »

New Photo App Lets You Travel Through Time

Jul 26 by Navneet Alang | 3 comments

You know what the internet loves? Nostalgia. Seriously. I mean, have you ever heard of Tumblr? It’s full of people posting ads and pin-up girls from 50 years ago. You know what else the web adores? Mash-ups. Mix-up anything online, whether a more »

"The DMCA Says WHAT? It's Time to Fix That Nonsense."

Jul 26 by Navneet Alang | 1 comment

Woah. This is big. You know how the DMCA says it’s illegal to, say, crack the DRM on a DVD – that you bought and paid for – so that you can watch it on your iPod? And you know how that seems, ya’ know, totally insane? Well it seems someone out there has more »

Does Flipboard Represent the Future of Media?

Jul 26 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

To say that the media world – particularly print media – is in a bit of a state right now would be a gross understatement. The arrival of the web and its impact on advertising, reading habits and people’s expectations happened so fast and so suddenly more »

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