Apple Maps: You can't get there from here!
With iOS version 6, Apple ditched Google Maps and went DIY, with disastrous results. According to geospatial specialist Dr Michael Dobson, this was entirely predictable.
The Full Tilt
Stilgherrian delivers an undiluted dose of criticism and analysis of the ways digital technology is changing our world and the spin that goes with it. Mostly in words -- sometimes in audio or video formats -- always cynical. Incorporating the Patch Monday podcast.
Stilgherrian
Stilgherrian is a freelance journalist, commentator and podcaster interested in big-picture internet issues, especially security, cybercrime and hoovering up bulldust. He studied computing science and linguistics before a wide-ranging media career and a stint at running an IT business. He can write iptables firewall rules, set a rabbit trap, clear a jam in an IBM model 026 card punch and mix a mean whiskey sour.
Latest Posts
Windows 8: Rectangles for all the things explained
The new Windows 8 user interface discards the desktop metaphor we've used for three decades, and replaces it with a panorama of coloured rectangles. Why? And how does it change the development process?
Good-guy hackers and other infosec anomalies
IBM's Michael Montecillo talks through good-guy hackers, click fraud, and his views on the profile of hacktivism, following the arrest of key Anonymous and LulzSec members.
App.net's radical social network strategy: charge money
Is a working social network worth paying for?
Geo-engineering: fixing climate for just US$6 billion
What's the best way to deal with climate change?
Porn industry innovates itself to death
The porn industry's drive for technology innovation may have seen it cut off its own foot.
The future of business is Lego
What should business look like in the hyperconnected future? Just like a children's toy, according to futurist Mark Pesce.
Does the internet really need new laws?
Why do governments keep wanting to make special new laws for the internet? Surely a crime is a crime, no matter where it's committed?
The politics of data retention
What are the implications of making ISPs store customer data for up to two years?
Mid-2012 malware: new flavours, same ice cream
We take a look at some of the malware that's appeared this year. Are we seeing new attacks, or just evolutions of the old ones?