Asher Moses
Technology Editor
Asher Moses is a columnist.
Apple's maps: its worst software product yet?
Embarrassing, appalling, illogical, incomplete, erroneous - these words are rarely used to describe Apple's products but all and more have been applied to Apple Maps.
- by Asher Moses
PC sales plunge as consumers look to tablets, smartphones
PC sales have plummeted as consumers embrace portable devices such as smartphones and tablets and shift to web-based software.
- by Asher Moses
Building today's tech, tomorrow
Technology experts are sceptical of the Coalition's NBN plans.
- by Asher Moses
Turnbull's NBN plan inadequate: futurists
Just two decades ago a dial-up internet connection would have taken more than a lifetime to download a single movie, while today's broadband connections can pull down several HD movie streams simultaneously.
- by Asher Moses
The need for speed may be insatiable
Just two decades ago with a dial-up internet connection it would've taken more than a lifetime to download a single movie, while today's 24 megabits per second (Mbps) ADSL2+ broadband connections can pull down multiple HD movie streams simultaneously.
- by Asher Moses
NBN: how much speed do we really need?
The debate over the broadband plans of both Labor and the Coalition raises the question: how much speed do we actually need?
- by Asher Moses
Digital health coach with a human touch
Australians Nick Crocker and Ben Hartney say they've reinvented Weight Watchers for the digital age.
- by Asher Moses
Facebook 'erodes any idea of privacy'
Facebook Home for Android phones has been dubbed by technologists as the death of privacy and the start of a new wave of invasive tracking and advertising.
- by Asher Moses
40 years on, mobile phones still pushing consumers' buttons
Four decades ago this week in New York, the world's first mobile phone call was made on a Motorola DynaTAC that was about as tall as an iPad, took 10 hours to recharge and offered just 20 minutes of talking time.
- by Asher Moses
Bitcoin boom: 'breakthrough moment' or billion-dollar bubble?
As the financial system in parts of the world crumbles, the decentralised digital currency Bitcoin has rocketed to a market capitalisation of almost $1.2 billion in what some believe is a sign the boom will soon turn to bust.
- by Asher Moses