Will Apple ruin our cloud video future?
Ever since they first came about, digital movies have been totally absurd. Not only are they overpriced, they are almost always locked into particular...
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Navneet Alang
Technology and culture writer | Former TECHi contributor
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Navneet Alang is a Toronto-based technology and culture writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Globe and Mail. Between 2010 and 2011 he wrote technology commentary for TECHi on Apple, cloud video and the future of the desktop computer. Navneet Alang contributed articles on consumer technology, social media and online communication, software and cloud computing, and design and digital culture to TECHi.
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Publication history and recorded editorial activity on TECHi. These counts describe published work, not investment performance or independently verified qualifications.
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Selected reporting
Selected articles from Navneet Alang's published portfolio.
Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about
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...
Meteroic: Download music and movies to your iOS device
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...
It's time to call it: The Blackberry will never rise again
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...
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Earlier TECHi work
This piece is from an earlier period. It is not current market analysis.
How To Save The Earth? With Cows on Treadmills
That headline up there may sound like Monty Python-esque absurdity, but it's quite real. Or at least half of it is. At a farm in Northern Ireland, farmer...
Article archive
Earlier archive
Earlier published articles and coauthored reporting on TECHi (showing 18 of 28).
Self-Driving GM EN-V May Change Transportation, Still Looks Funny
Alright, I'll be honest - last time I wrote about the GM EN-V vehicle, I ridiculed it for its rather, um,...
Shawarma Slicing Robot Built for Safety First, World Domination Second
If you've ever wandered the streets of Berlin or Munich, then you know that shwarmas (or doners as they call...
Robot Waiters Efficiently Conquer Service Industry, Thai Food
Themed restaurants are all the rage these days - heck, even Kim Jong Il has a line of establishments with pretty, dancing waitresses (no, really). But...
Mobile Apps Don't Need A Location War. What We Need is Open Data
Amid the unending din of posts, tweets and articles about South by Southwest Interactive, one thing became clear: mobile location apps are the next big...
Microsoft Courts the Geek Set With Internet Explorer 9
If you are committed geek, using Internet Explorer is a bit like a fashionista wearing something from last year’s line: it simply isn’t done. But with...
Avatar Blu-Ray/DVD to be released three times. Yeah, you read that right
In what we can only assume is a move designed to make James Cameron both the richest and most evil man on Earth, today we learned that Fox is going to...
A Brainwave Monitor Plus a Little Sadism Equals Hilarity!
(Video n*s*f*w due to swearing) Some very clever hackers at Harco Laboratories have created a device that gives you a little electric shock - wait for it...
3D Printer Makes Veins. No, Like, Actual Human Veins
For you youngsters out there, Weird Science was a movie from the 1980s in which 2 young boys used a computer to literally create the woman of their...
Chinese Media to Google: No, You Suck!
If China and Google were listed as a couple on Facebook, right now they'd have to change their status to 'It's Complicated', as China's state-run Xinhua...
How Apple Wins By Ignoring 'The Mushy Middle'
Conventional wisdom states that successful companies succeed when they make a good product for a reasonable price aimed at the average Jane or Joe. Right?...
Brilliant Invention by Harvard Prof Lets You Huff Coffee Like It Was Glue
Alright coffee drinkers, the jig is up. You say how much you "like the taste" or that "it's a relaxing ritual", but we know the truth: you only drink...
Kindle App for iPad To Crush Competitors Like... Well, The Kindle
Skeptics who don't believe people will use Apple's iPad to read books may have to rethink their position today, after Amazon showed off a pretty...
Nvidia Tech Will Let You Watch Avatar in 3-D At Home. Um, Yay?
Didn't we all just buy HDTV's? Wasn't HD supposed to be the next holy grail, and after we'd all plonked down our cash, we wouldn't have to worry about new...
Now THIS Is What Magazines on the iPad Should Look Like
When the iPad was initially announced, you could sum up a lot of the reaction with that common internet...
Leaked Screenshots Suggest Newest Blackberry OS Might Finally Suck Less
Blackberries - you gotta' love 'em. But lets be honest: if you have one, you peer over at your friend's iPhone or Motorola Droid with more than a little...
Sikker, Paradoxically, Is All About Keeping Your Baby Healthy
When you think baby monitors, you think clunky, crackling technology from the 80s, right? Well, in this new concept Sikker, there is none of that. Quite...
World of Light Travel Concept: So Slick It Makes Star Trek Look Backwards
You gotta' hand it to the Swedish team behind this World of Light concept video. While other people think about cool new designs for suitcases, these...
Legacy archive
Historical articles
216 articles from Navneet Alang's earlier editorial era on TECHi. These remain available at their original URLs but aren't part of the current beat.
Will Apple ruin our cloud video future?
Ever since they first came about, digital movies have been totally absurd. Not only are they overpriced, they are almost always locked into particular...
If tech news is boring, blame the free market
"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...
What is the future of the desktop computer?
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...
Is Apple an elitist company?
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...
TeamWox Review: Making your company more efficient
Though there are myriad software and services for managing various aspects of a company, they are often divided into components: use one thing for...
Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about
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...
Meteroic: Download music and movies to your iOS device
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...
It's time to call it: The Blackberry will never rise again
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...
Can Nintendo and Sony save mobile gaming?
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...
How Nintendo just "out-Appled" Apple
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...
How Apple could make "iCloud" revolutionary
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...
E3 2011: What do Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have up their sleeves?
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,...