Moshi Monsters' founder: the shift to mobile caught us by surprise

With a dip in desktop users, Moshi is racing to keep kids entertained on tablets and mobiles. By Jemima KissLondon-based Mind Candy was stalling five years ago, but took a punt on an idea for a social networking game site for children.By 2013, the children's game network had become ubiquitous at every supermarket checkout and at every toy store - a runaway brand extension success.Founde

Boot up: Surface Pro reviewed, Google mapped, LulzSec's voice speaks, and more

Plus the messaging mess, Glass intentions, how to get hold of a Chromebook Pixel, the scammer who cost Google $500m, and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamMicrosoft Surface Pro review >> PC ProSasha Muller: Stop to consider what you're getting, however, and the Surface Pro really isn't bad value for money at all. The hardware is impeccably we

Boot up: Google I/O, Android profit share, Thorsten Heins v PCs, and more

Plus Taiwan's problems in consumer electronics, European PC sales slump, Google's 'pure' GS4 and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamGoogle I/O: the liveblog >> Guardian TechnologyAmanda Holpuch at the keyboard, with Dominic Rushe checking the audience for Jon Hamm sightings.Samsung captures 95% share of global Android smartphone profits in Q1 2

Boot up: the Net v middle classes, missing apps on Windows, Twitter hacks, and more

Plus Windows Blue named and priced, Acer and Asus revenues, how to beat clickjacking, Adobe cloud priced, and moreA burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamWindows keeps getting better >> Windows BlogToday at the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Boston, Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as "Windo

Boot up: AT&T kills HTC First, Apple's maps mystery, another Google shutdown, and more

Plus Wikipedia's Middle Earth bias, more on Windows Blue, caption glasses for deaf cinemagoers, graphene gets magnetic, and more_Note: the daily launch time for this post will in future be 0730 UK time._A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamHTC First discontinued by AT&T: first 'Facebook phone' a flop >> BGRZach Epstein: The HTC First, or "Faceboo

Tesla's Elon Musk enjoys sweet revenge

His company has just scored its first profitable quarter and consumer reports put the Model S at the top of its rankingPalo Alto is known, primarily, as the cradle of high-tech. Its birth registry stretches from pre-World War II Hewlett-Packard, to Cisco, Sun Microsystems (after Stanford University Network), Logitech, and on to Google and Facebook.But there's an aspect of the town that's r

New York Times v Washington Post – a tale of two strategies

Both are great American newspapers, both suffer from the advertising slump and from the transition to digital. But the NYT's paywall strategy is making a huge differenceThe Washington Post's financials provide a good glance at the current status of legacy media struggling with the shift to digital. Unlike others large dailies, the components of the Post's P&L clearly appear in its statements,

Why Songkick's new paternity policy is good for women

Startups can 'change business norms', founders sayThere's a consensus among the entrepreneurs and technologists I talk to that many of the way to encourage more women into the industry is by challenging and changing the way a business operates, and often that means relatively subtle changes that will have a long-term impact. Leaving aside the more fundamental crisis of IT education in scho

Boot up: Google's card nixed, Samsung's ITV exclusive, space station Linux and more

Plus DRAM prices rise, learn vim by adventure, more on app pricing, the US cyberwar strategy, why mobile web is slow, and moreA burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamPrivacy advocate Jonathan Mayer has had it with 'Do Not Track' >> Ad ExchangerAsked what the ideal solution to the DNT row would be, Mayer says: "Consumers don't have a great handle on wh

Boot up: Apple v photos, Amazon's 3D phone?, ninja Google searching and more

Plus Bitcoin gets some venture capital, high-frequency trading visualised, 3D gun downloads and moreA burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamDear Apple, let's talk about photos >> Peter NixeySo Apple, I think you've got a bit confused. Don't worry about sharing, we don't need you for that. Your job is to take photos, organise them and make sure they don't

Boot up: Google v Amazon, Galaxy S4 build cost, luminous plants! and more

Plus Spotify fixes download exploit, Gatwick's head in the clouds, more on Windows 8 and RT, Alex on gadgets, and moreA burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamGodzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel >> Fortune TechFormer eBay manager and now venture capitalist Jeff Jordan: In Google's case today, I am becoming increasingly convinced that their most challenging

Boot up: app price woes, Syria traffic stops, Prenda Law phasered, and more

Plus Nokia's new China boss, first-quarter Windows 8 PC sales analysed, Google Glass positive and negative, and moreA burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamApps are too cheap >> Dave AddeyAddey is behind the UK Train Times, Qi and Malcolm Tucker apps: Implementing time-limited trials isn't a new feature for the iTunes Store – this principle already ex

Mobile phone networks must think consumers are idiots

Carriers are confident we won't read the small print in their adverts – why are they so rarely called to account?'My goal in life has been to have just enough money to ignore 8-point Helvetica!' Thus spake a close friend one night in a quiet San Francisco bar. His objection was neither stylistic nor ophthalmologic. We were, once again, lamenting the shenanigans and ruses, the hidden fees and

UK top 20 video games chart

Dead Island: Riptide knocks Injustice: Gods Among Us off top spot as BioShock Infinite continues its slide from number oneUKIE Games Charts © compiled by GfK Chart-Track*Games*PS3*PlayStation*Xbox*Wii U*Wii*PCguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More

Boot up: Google product lives, Motorola slapped, Apple's missed chances, and more

Plus Google Australia gets hacked (sorta), the sensory computer?, Android virus bypass and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamPredicting Google closures >> gwern.netGwern Branwen: Naturally, we are preached at by apologists that Google owes us nothing and if it's a problem then it's all our fault and we should've prophesied the future better (

Boot up: Kurzweil at Google, iPhone v Windows Phone, more efficient porn!, and more

Plus Dediu on emerging markets and smartphones, Bitcoin and hackers, where Microsoft's Android revenue lives, and moreA burst of 13 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamGecko-like drone can land on walls and ceilings [updated] >> Popular ScienceWhy make a drone that can cling to walls and land on ceilings? Sometimes, there is no other surface available, especially

Boot up: Bitcoin gaming, Android leads tablets, a year offline, and more

Plus mapping bus routes via mobile, Ghana's ISP woes, HTC v Samsung, what not to put in Google Docs, and more_We're experimenting with different launch times for the Boot Up series. We'll fix on a time within the next week._A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamRogue employee turns gaming network into private Bitcoin mine >> Wired.comIf you've been p

Boot up: Google Now v iPhone, Pirate Bay sets sail, China's PC lead, and more

Plus Bitcoin mining rigs, who's got your back over data?, the troubled life of a patent, BlackBerry says UK is big, and more_Please note: we're experimenting with later launch times for this post - between 0630 BST and 0830 BST. We'll settle it again on a new time (or the same time) after a week or so._A burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamThese 7 Bitc

Tech City – believe the hype?

Technology clusters in areas such as Cambridge, Newcastle and Brighton may have a better case for getting exposure – and cashSince the Coalition came to power in May 2010, the Tech City initiative has had significant money, PR and industry support thrown behind it. Tech City is often trumpeted as the saviour of the UK's flagging economy and the ultimate replacement for a broken financial serv

Boot up: Path's spam burst, the curly smartphone, Galaxy S4 v iPhone 5 (redux)

Plus Jawbone tries BodyMedia for size, the endless meme of the 'smaller iPhone', original iPhone approaches obsolescence, and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamThe antisocial network: Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am >> Branded3Stephen Kenwright: 6am: When I rolled out of bed this morning the first I knew about what had happened was when

Boot up: Google's Motorola puzzle, iPhone 5 v Galaxy S4 and more

Plus thoughts on Lumia, Microsoft breaks up the wedding, the storm over 'orphan works' and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamNew Google Play terms ban non-store app updates >> The RegisterGoogle has amended the policies of its Play app store for Android to prohibit third-party app update mechanisms, in a move seemingly designed to put the kibosh

Jawbone's UP wristband could affect healthcare for all of us Wristband Could Change Healthcare

Beyond the quirky gadget lies a much larger project: changing healthcare – for better or for worse Hyperkinetic as he is, Hosain Rahman, the Jawbone founder, must be saturating his Jawbone UP wristband with data. The rubberised band, nicely designed by Yves Behar, is filled with miniaturised electronics: accelerometers and sensors monitor your activity through out the day, recording every mot

Boot up: BlackBerry's Q10 sellout, Google Glass views, Samsung grows and more

Plus the Windows number mystery, NFC dissed by Tesco, the puzzle of the misdirected uploaded photos, Amazon's attractive app store, and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamBlackBerry sells out in 90 minutes at Selfridges >> Seeking AlphaMichael Collins: Upon arriving, there were lots of exporters buying 20+ units each. They had suitcases, and o

Soundcloud and Swiftkey win EC awards

Entrepreneurs behind the 'YouTube of audio' and BlackBerry's keyboard technology win the first Europioneer awardsCongratulations to Soundcloud and Swiftkey on picking up awards at Europioneer this week; this is a scheme sponsored by the European commission that managed to pull in some big name judges (our own Charles Arthur, for one) as part of its Startup Europe plan.Soundcloud's Alexande

Boot up: Samsung chips in, Google's stock forecaster?, dongle-schlobbers and more

Plus NFC = Nice For Criminals?, China malware targeting Mac users, Microsoft's app to switch Android users, and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamChip shortage looms as Samsung courts rival for orders >> Bloomberg"Not only DRAM chips, but all memory chips for mobile devices show signs of shortages," said Kim Sung In, an analyst at Kiwoom Securit

Google's Jared Cohen discusses the digital future - live Q&A

Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas and co-author of The New Digital Age, went online to answer your questionsThe live Q&A is now over. Read Jared's answers belowJared Cohen used to work at the US state department, where he was the official who sent an email to Twitter asking it to keep its service online while protests over the result of the 2009 Iranian election were breaking out. In hi

Boot up: Samsung GS4 reviews, Amazon set-top box?, Dell's problem and more

Plus the braille smartphone, should Apple users care about share prices?, Bittorrent's cloud storage, Google Play stats and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamReview: Samsung Galaxy S4 is a worthy successor but not revolutionary >> TechHiveArmando Rodriguez: After spending a few days with the phone and running it through TechHive's suite of te

Boot up: Cook v Ballmer, Google fails to stop iPhone, Google Now home?, and more

Plus conspiracy theories charted, Microsoft's Windows numbers examined again, ancient computers still in harness, and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamThe Reason Stick: The Conspiracy Theory Flowchart "THEY" Don't Want You To SeeHad enough government rhetoric? Tired of following the sheeple? Fed up with believing what THEY want you to believe?

Boot up: Boston v social media, Apple's tipping point, expunging Google and more

Plus how Google Now was built, ACLU files complaint over lack of Android updates, Dediu on product builds and innovation, and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamIt wasn't Sunil Tripathi: the anatomy of a misinformation disaster >> The AtlanticAlexis Madrigal: In the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours

YouGov and iPads: when 'market share' doesn't tell the whole story

Data about tablet ownership comparing the first quarter of 2013 with the year-ago period shows Apple's 'market share' slipping by ten points. But what happened to the installed base?"Market share" remains one of the most misunderstood measures in business - and the hardest to comprehend, especially in fast-growing markets.There's a terrific instance of this in the latest YouGov figures abo