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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Home, The Future Of Sharing And Life Outside Facebook

On the day Facebook launched its new software for Android, Facebook Home, Wired scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg in order to chat about the product and what the future holds. Here are some choice cuts from the Big Blue’s head honcho.


Android Is A Free Replacement For A Feature Phone, Says Apple’s Phil Schiller

Samsung is announcing the Galaxy S IV tomorrow, but before it does, Apple wanted to take a few shots at Android. Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Marketing, crapped all over Android, telling the Wall Street Journal that “Android is often given a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn’t as good as an iPhone”.


Vint Cerf Dreams Of An Internet That Connects Humans To Aliens

If it weren’t for the fact that Vint Cerf was the grandaddy of the internet, people might be pointing and laughing at him. In a TED discussion panel last night, about how technology is being used to communicate with animals, Cerf spoke freely about an internet that connects humans with animals and aliens.


Larry Page: ‘We’re Crazy, I Know It, And I Like It’

Larry Page doesn’t accept 10 per cent better, nor does he accept 50 per cent, 100 per cent or 500 per cent better. In an era of modest revision, the Google co-founder expects his company’s products to outperform the status quo by no less than 10 times. Because how else are you going to change the world?


Samsung’s Chief Strategy Officer Prefers To Use Apple At Home

By day, he heads up Samsung’s technology strategy. By night, he’s a closet Apple fanboy. Young Sohn, Samsung’s Chief Strategy Officer, admitted to Technology Review in an interview that he can’t get enough of Apple’s products.


Google CEO Talks Apple Spats, Google+ And The Future Of Search

CNN Money has managed to get a rare, long interview with Google head honcho Larry Page. In fact, it’s only Page’s second big interview with a print publication since he became CEO back in 2011. Here are some choice cuts.


Eric Schmidt: Apple And Google Are Like Competing Countries, Not Kids With Guns

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Eric Schmidt was quizzed about the relationship between Apple and Google, among other things. His take? They’re like countries trying to get along politically — not teenagers brandishing guns at each other. Right.


Google: Nexus 10 Is An Experiment To Rescue An Underpowered Tablet Market

Here’s some interesting if damning commentary from Google. The company has suggested that the Nexus 10 is an experiment in resuscitating a tablet market overcrowded with expensive and underpowered 10-inch tablets.


Google Finally Responds To Apple Versus Samsung Verdict

A jury in the US doled out a whopping $US1.05 billion fine to Samsung over the weekend for what it deemed to be infringement on several of Apple’s patents and both company’s responded with the right level of anger (in Samsung’s case) and glee (in Apple’s case). But what did Google have to say? Now we know.


A Collective Response To Kim Williams: What About Availability?

Yesterday we posted a speech by News Limited’s CEO, Kim Williams, about the virtue of copyright protection and the need for new laws governing the theft of copyright protected material in Australia. It got a lot of you really mad, and that anger spread across social media too, with Reddit Australia and Facebook chiming in. Gizmodo Australia in no way condones piracy, but we welcome your thoughts on the subject. We’ve decided to combine your collective conversation around the one section Kim failed to address: the problem of availability.