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Alastair Arthur
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Writer, photographer and gadget fan since the Commodore 64, Psion organizers and earliest cell phones. Born on the south coast of England with Scottish blood, I moved to Paris, then New York. A fan of Nexus phones, a good sci-fi epic, street photography and small soccer team called Raith Rovers. Quietly optimistic and full of ideas.

Pro Filmmaker Shows Google Pixel Video Capability
Oct 24, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Pro Filmmaker Shows Google Pixel Video Capability
We know that the camera in the Google Pixel and Pixel XL is rated as…
Oct 24, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Report: Samsung to Release Galaxy S8 Early?
The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S7 were both released at the Mobile World Congress in…
Oct 24, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Software Helps To Improve Google Pixel Phone Camera Results
The camera on the Google Pixel and Pixel XL phones has been rated as the…
Oct 19, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Instagram Stories Now Added To The Explore Page
Instagram stories seem to have been a success so far. Concerned over the dominance that…
Oct 18, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Firebase Push Notifications Now on Web
Firebase is a cloud-based messaging service that makes it easier for developers to send push…
Oct 17, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Google to Launch Separate Search Index for Mobile
Up until now Google has used one index to generate the response to all queries…
Oct 14, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
NYPD Fighting Crime with Windows Mobile Smartphones
The New York Police Department now have official smartphones, even if they are of the…
Oct 13, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Facebook's Workplace Now Available To All
For about two years, Facebook has been trialling a version of it’s social network aimed…
Oct 10, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Twitter Releases Customer Service Study, Defends Against Chatbots
It only takes a quick look at Facebook Messenger to realize that there are already…
Oct 10, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Global Phone Sales Predicted to Increase in 2017
It is likely that there will have been less new mobile phones sold globally in total…
Oct 08, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
NewsTab Reader Offers Similar Functions To Feedly
Many loyal users were upset when Google decided to drop the Google RSS Reader in…
Oct 06, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
DxOMark Samples Show Off Google Pixel's Camera
Google are making great claims about the cameras in the new Pixel phones. Even in…
Oct 05, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
How The Google Pixel & Pixel XL Could Have Been Even Better
The new Google Pixel and Pixel XL have great specs. They are powerful, come with…
Oct 04, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Google's Pixel Phones Come With Live 24/7 Customer Support
The new Google Pixel and Pixel XL phones announced today include a number of new features, but…
Oct 04, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Microsoft Band 2 Sales Have Been Halted
The Microsoft Band 2 is no longer available from the online Microsoft store, and with…
Oct 04, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Facebook, WhatsApp Data Sharing Raising More Concerns
Germany have already ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing messaging data with Facebook. Now it looks…
Sep 30, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Anchor's Podcasting App Is Now Available On Android As Well
Whether you want to create new broadcasts or listen to them, Anchor aims to make…
Sep 30, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Major Tech Firms Forge New AI Alliance
It was announced today that Google has partnered with Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and IBM in…
Sep 28, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Ex-Verizon Employee Pleads Guilty To Selling Customer Info
A former employee of Verizon has recently pleaded guilty to selling customer data by way…
Sep 27, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Google's AI Now 94% Accurate at Describing a Photo
If you use Google Photos, you’ll know that it already does an impressive job at…
Sep 23, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Huawei Deepen Camera Research Partnership with Leica
The camera has increasingly become one of the most important elements in a new smartphone,…
Sep 23, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Nexus 5X Phones Randomly Rebooting With Android 7.0
The long line of Google Nexus phones may be coming to an end according to…
Sep 21, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Some of Google Allo's Privacy Features Missing at Launch
Privacy versus convenience. It’s a trade off that we all make, especially when it comes…
Sep 21, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Google Explains How 'Trips' Autogenerates Intineraries
Yesterday Google released a new app called Google Trips. The intention behind it is to…
Sep 20, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Nikon Introduces New Range Of KeyMission Action Cameras
In January Nikon introduced it’s first action camera, the KeyMission 360. Only limited details were…
Sep 19, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
The Man and the Inspiration Behind the Google Doodle
Ryan Germick controls arguably the most significant billboard of all time, the Google homepage. He…
Sep 16, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Google's Duo Stars In A Number Of New Promotional Videos
Google has Hangouts, an app which tries to integrate all of your messaging needs together…
Sep 15, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Domino's Adds Pizza Ordering to Facebook Messenger
You can already order a pizza via a phone call, a text, a web page,…
Sep 15, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Instagram Introduces Mutable & Savable Stories
It wasn’t long ago that Instagram introduced stories, allowing photos and video to be recorded…
Sep 14, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Microsoft Adds Outlook Calendar Features as Sunrise is Killed
The Sunrise app was one of the most popular mobile calendar apps, with a beautiful…
Sep 14, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Amazon Prime Membership Now Includes Audible Channels
Audible, the company owned by Amazon and known for its audiobooks, in July announced the…
Sep 13, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
New Amazon Echo Dot at a New Lower Price
The Amazon Echo Dot is the smallest and cheapest of the Amazon Echo line-up, and…
Sep 13, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Samsung Releases 2016 Galaxy Tab A 10.1 With An S Pen
After numerous rumors and leaks it’s now official. Samsung have formally announced their new tablet,…
Sep 12, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Alphabet's Verily & Sanofi Working Together To Treat Diabetes
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is joining with Sanofi, a french pharmaceutical company, to…
Sep 12, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Google's DeepMind Is Improving Its Human Speech Abilities
With the growing use of virtual personal assistants such as Google assistant, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s…
Sep 11, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Tech Talk: Is Google's Fuchsia The Next Android?
Android, for phones and tablets, and Chrome OS, for laptops, are the active operating systems…
Sep 09, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
New Features in Microsoft Arrow Launcher and OneNote
Despite the lack of success with Windows Phone, Microsoft continues to develop and update a…
Sep 09, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Tech Talk: Reasons Behind Samsung Quality Control Issues
The Galaxy Note 7 looked initially like a winning product for Samsung. The latest in…
Sep 08, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Nest Enables Auto Detection of Security Camera Events
Whether it’s for the security of monitoring and recording the exterior of a property, or…
Sep 08, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Croma's Color Palette Management Tools is a Designer's Dream
If you’re a photographer, designer or really any type of artist working extensively with color,…
Sep 02, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Facebook Joins the Race For Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) has been touted as the next big thing many times before, but…
Sep 01, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Hackers Steal 68 Million Dropbox Passwords
It seems a regular occurrence that an online service provider is hacked and the corresponding…
Sep 01, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Pinch-To-Zoom Finally Comes To Instagram
Instagram has been gradually adding features and extending the app user experience since being taken…
Aug 31, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur
Mark Zuckerberg Creates a Personal Smart Home Automation AI
Automating the home, at least to some degree, is easily possible now with off-the-shelf products…
Aug 30, 2016 · By Alastair Arthur