Technology fetishism is skin deep

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Our shallow obsession with gadgets disguises a conservatism where real change takes place at numbingly slow speed

A milestone has been reached, a Rubicon crossed. With the news, announced on the Guardian's front page on Wednesday, that ebook sales on Amazon have outstripped hardbacks for the first time, I have decided no longer to pay attention to hi-tech company marketing memos. That means that next time Mark Zuckerman converts another half billion users to Facebook, Jeff Bezos converts...

If Apple wants to be a major player it needs to start behaving like one

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The iPhone 4 debacle reveals how much Apple has to learn about life at the top

Over the past two months, Apple's market capitalisation (ie its value as measured by the stock market) averaged out at $229.8bn.

The corresponding figure for Microsoft was $215.9bn. And yes, you read those numbers correctly: Apple is now worth significantly more than Microsoft, and the difference isn't just a flash in the Wall Street pan.

This has implications for all of us who follow these things. The mainstream...

UK top 10 video games chart

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Those wacky characters from Toy Story 3 dominate the UK's game chart as well as the box office this week

Leisure software charts compiled by GfK Chart Track
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Where have all the social networks gone?

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The technology scene has echoes of the post-dotcom exhaustion of 2002 as we wait for mobiles to catch up

Where have all the social networks gone? Of course, this is exactly the right time to be asking this question. Haven't I noticed that Facebook is now claiming 500 million users, in the manner of Doctor Evil in Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies? Haven't I noticed that Twitter is getting its very own data centre, all the better to spread "unimportant trivia" (© all tabloid papers) such as...