The Pogues

MacGowan, who had been in and out of hospital in Dublin since July, is most famous for penning the Christmas classic "Fairytale of New York", a duet sung with Kirsty MacColl in 1987.

Yahoo Inc has hired New York Times columnist David Pogue to oversee an expansion of the company's consumer technology website, the latest such voice to leave a newspaper.

Yahoo Inc has hired New York Times columnist David Pogue to oversee an expansion of the company's consumer technology website, the latest such voice to leave a newspaper.

Pogies celebrate the best ideas of the year that somehow made it past the lawyers, through the penny-pinching committees and into real-world tech gadgets.

The ability to share a fresh photo wirelessly Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, text message is so tempting, that people are willing to sacrifice a lot of real-camera goodness.

Google Maps for the iPhone has arrived. It's free, fast and fantastic.

The two new phones have a lot in common - for one thing, they're both awesome. For another, both have bigger, sharper screens than the iPhone's famous Retina screen.

The iPhone 5 is so light, tall and flat, it's well on its way to becoming a bookmark.

A new version of Windows is a big deal. Big changes, big price, big installation. Apple takes a different approach with its OS X software for Mac.

A summary of the friendliest MobileMe replacements, ahead of service's shutdown on 30 June.

The Sony RX100 has a huge one-inch sensor - the biggest ever stuffed into a pocketable zoom camera

It seems as though Apple dodged a bullet. Ever since the Steve Jobs press conference a couple of weeks ago, in which Apple offered free carrying cases bumpers (or full refunds) to anyone whose iPhone 4 exhibits the signal-drops-when-you-hold-the-phone-a-certain-way problem,...

At a special press event, Steven P Jobs, Apple's chief executive, unveiled a new lineup of iPod models, just in time for the holiday season. The diminutive iPod Shuffle still has no screen and is still made of brushed aluminum,...

When it made up the term "S.L.R.," the technology terminology industry was not operating at its peak creative powers. An S.L.R. is one of those big, black, professional-style cameras. They do things that make pocket cameras look like pretenders: they...

"An utter disappointment and abysmal failure" (Orange County Design Blog). "Consumers seem genuinely baffled by why they might need it" (Businessweek). "Nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks" (Bloomberg). "Insanely great it is...

MacGowan, who had been in and out of hospital in Dublin since July, is most famous for penning the Christmas classic "Fairytale of New York", a duet sung with Kirsty MacColl in 1987.

Yahoo Inc has hired New York Times columnist David Pogue to oversee an expansion of the company's consumer technology website, the latest such voice to leave a newspaper.

Yahoo Inc has hired New York Times columnist David Pogue to oversee an expansion of the company's consumer technology website, the latest such voice to leave a newspaper.

Pogies celebrate the best ideas of the year that somehow made it past the lawyers, through the penny-pinching committees and into real-world tech gadgets.

The ability to share a fresh photo wirelessly Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, text message is so tempting, that people are willing to sacrifice a lot of real-camera goodness.

Google Maps for the iPhone has arrived. It's free, fast and fantastic.

The two new phones have a lot in common - for one thing, they're both awesome. For another, both have bigger, sharper screens than the iPhone's famous Retina screen.

The iPhone 5 is so light, tall and flat, it's well on its way to becoming a bookmark.

A new version of Windows is a big deal. Big changes, big price, big installation. Apple takes a different approach with its OS X software for Mac.

A summary of the friendliest MobileMe replacements, ahead of service's shutdown on 30 June.

The Sony RX100 has a huge one-inch sensor - the biggest ever stuffed into a pocketable zoom camera

It seems as though Apple dodged a bullet. Ever since the Steve Jobs press conference a couple of weeks ago, in which Apple offered free carrying cases bumpers (or full refunds) to anyone whose iPhone 4 exhibits the signal-drops-when-you-hold-the-phone-a-certain-way problem,...

At a special press event, Steven P Jobs, Apple's chief executive, unveiled a new lineup of iPod models, just in time for the holiday season. The diminutive iPod Shuffle still has no screen and is still made of brushed aluminum,...

When it made up the term "S.L.R.," the technology terminology industry was not operating at its peak creative powers. An S.L.R. is one of those big, black, professional-style cameras. They do things that make pocket cameras look like pretenders: they...

"An utter disappointment and abysmal failure" (Orange County Design Blog). "Consumers seem genuinely baffled by why they might need it" (Businessweek). "Nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks" (Bloomberg). "Insanely great it is...