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I kicked the tyres on the new Quantum'd Firefox. Oddly I found that the GPU utilisation on my MacBook Pro is significantly higher than Chrome, even higher than Safari. Playing a Yo…

The one thing Google Maps is missing for me over the other two is speed limits. It's so handy to have an alert go off especially in larger cities where they can fluctuate frequentl…

IMO and as other outlets have stated I don't think they planned to release the X this year. You can tell a lot of this just by the way the software feels like it has been shoehorne…

I disagree. I agree they need to focus on quality and performance and be public that they're working to address it. But they also need to focus on adding new functionality to catch…

All valid points. Personally I find that iOS recently has really fallen behind, the hardware coming from Apple is still best in class, software is terrible. Notifications are abysm…

Not a fan. Off is off simple as that. It’s also really confusing to have two actions one in control centre the other in settings behaving in a different way but no cue to say they …

It's simply not enough. The penalties for such behaviour should be steep, such behaviour should not be tolerated from any organisation let alone those trusted with money. Makes you…

Have you tried hitting an alternative DNS resolver than Google's? You might find Google are tailoring results for VM which other providers aren't willing to do. I get the same resu…

Why is this even a news story? Surely if anything we should be praising the use of a new and arguably beneficial image format rather than complaining about some users incompetence …

I think you might be right. I just tried it on an IIS server set to accept any hostname at the IP the site is bound to and it returned a 400 error as well. Removing the trailing do…

For me this doesn't so much highlight the headline that Google is a second class citizen but rather the inflexibility of iOS compared to Android. Apple really should take a leaf fr…

the back button issue in IE10 mobile has still not been solved in WP8. It's one of the first things I noticed is the lack of a back and forward button. The back button definitely d…