Mike Elgan - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Mike Elgan

Article | 23/02/2010 How Buzz, Facebook, Twitter create 'social insecurity'

An insurance expert told the Britain's Telegraph newspaper that using location-centric mobile social services like Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook and ...

Article | 13/02/2010 How Google Buzz for mobile will change your life

Everybody's talking about Google Buzz. Most of that chatter is centered on how to use it, and whether it's better or worse than Twitter or Facebook. A...

Article | 30/01/2010 Dark clouds gather over online security

Google may have threatened to leave China to keep us all from concluding that "the cloud" cannot be secured. If that's true, isn't that precisely what...

Article | 9/01/2010 Google quietly changes the world again

Do you remember where you were the day they unveiled Facebook? No? How about Twitter? Amazon.com? Google Search?

Article | 1/01/2010 Is that the Library of Congress in your pocket?

I used to own a copy of National Geographic magazine from 1911. It was packed with black-and-white photographs of "natives" and village ethnic minorit...

Article | 22/12/2009 Why 3D will fail in 2010

James Cameron's hotly anticipated 3D movie, "Avatar," hits theaters across the U.S. today. Besides stunning computer generated imagery and a predictab...

Article | 12/12/2009 Hello, tablets. Good-bye, netbooks!

Look, I know you like the netbook idea -- and you love netbook prices. If you're like most people, you think tablets are expensive, slow, heavy and a ...

Article | 5/12/2009 How to fix the keyboard crisis

Everything gets better, right? Cheaper. Faster. Smaller. This is especially true for the smallest devices -- cell phones, netbooks and e-book readers.

Article | 28/11/2009 7 reasons e-book readers make lousy gifts this year

Two years ago, the best holiday gift was an Amazon Kindle -- if you could get your hands on one. They were hot, new and sold out hours after going on ...

Article | 10/11/2009 Online publishing for the cheap and lazy

I'm a lazy cheapskate. And I'm often on the move. But as a columnist, I'm also interested in exposing as many readers as possible to my brilliant insi...

Article | 25/08/2009 Why every child needs a GPS cell phone

The root of America's health crisis is bad habits formed in childhood. To protect children from harm, parents are keeping kids indoors, where they get...

Article | 10/08/2009 How tech is changing banks

It wasn't long ago that bank customers judged the quality of their local financial institutions by the sturdiness of their columns and vault doors. Th...

Article | 1/08/2009 Is digital nomad living going mainstream?

Sell the house and the car. Put up all your possessions on eBay. Pack your bags and buy a one-way ticket to some exotic location. The plan? "Telecommu...

Article | 25/07/2009 Haptics: The feel-good technology of the year

The touch screen is taking over cell phones, and soon mobile computing and even desktop computing. Both Apple and Microsoft are working on a transitio...

Article | 19/07/2009 Does mobile tech breed narcissism?

Technology is dangerous -- at least according to a gazillion alarmist headlines published over the past 20 years.