Phil Baker

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AI Is Sounding the Death Knell for Junky Review Sites

1 week ago | bakerontech.com | Phil Baker

If you’ve ever searched online for the “best laptop under $1,000” or “top travel gadgets,” you’ve probably run into one of those awful review sites full of long, useless introductions, vague recommendations, and more ads than useful information. Their real goal isn’t to help you, but to make money through ads and affiliate links by gaming Google’s search algorithm.
Young Chichester athletes in fine form in track and field championships

2 weeks ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Phil Baker

A squad of 20 of Chichester’s under-13s and under-11s travelled to Crawley for the Sussex track and field championships. As usual the standard across the board was high with Brighton and host club Crawley in expected dominant form. In this company, Chichester acquitted themselves well, no more so than in the boys’ hurdles where Isaac Page and Harry Tice repeated their performance from the match at Poole the previous weekend.
Chichester Runners are so dominant in Trundle View race

2 weeks ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Phil Baker

Chichester Runners & AC hosted their annual Trundle View five-mile trail race as part of the West Sussex Fun Run League season – and virtually swept the board against the other 16 clubs. Fielding a massive squad of 80 runners, split equally between juniors and seniors, it was only Kate Drew from Arunners who prevented Chichester from a clean sweep of the top positions in the senior, junior and team categories.
Depleted Chichester Runners squad produce the goods in Poole match

3 weeks ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Phil Baker

Chichester’s junior squad travelled to Poole on Sunday for the second fixture in the National Youth Development League and acquitted themselves well despite having to field a reduced squad. Competing against some of the best junior teams in the south, the standard was, if anything, even higher than in the first match at Winchester as last season’s premier team, Winchester AC, were relegated to second place by a very strong Team Dorset, a combination of three of the county’s top clubs.
Chichester’s young athletes shine at county track and field championships

1 month ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Phil Baker

A squad of 15 Chichester Runners athletes made quite an impression at the Sussex Track and Field Championships at Crawley – with virtually every success coming in the junior age groups. There were personal best performances galore with the majority of the team taking advantage of their successful winter, both in cross country and also sportshall athletics.
iPhones are becoming boring

1 month ago | bakerontech.com | Phil Baker

It’s the time of the year when the rumors begin about the new generations of iPhone 17 due out in the Fall and whether it’s worth upgrading to a new model. It’s a ritual that began ever since Apple introduced their iPhones eighteen years ago. Each year Apple tries to entice us to upgrade with new features such as a better camera with more lenses, faster processors, new materials, and better screens. And for many years many of us would upgrade every 2 years to gain some great new features.
Apple in China, the story of Apple’s capture by China

1 month ago | bakerontech.com | Phil Baker |Phil Baker

Throughout my career in product development I’ve used Asian resources to supplement the work being done in the U.S. to bring new consumer tech products to market more quickly. When I worked at Polaroid in the 80s designing cameras, I used companies in Japan that were expert in optics to develop some cameras I designed. And years later when I was at Apple in the 90s, I led the development of the Newton using resources in Taiwan. That was the first time Apple developed a product from scratch in Asia.
Chichester’s young athletes enjoy storming start to track and field season

1 month ago | sussexexpress.co.uk | Phil Baker

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowChichester Runners’ new crop of under-13s made their best start for a number of years in their opening Sussex League match at the K2 stadium, Crawley. A full squad of 25 athletes excelled themselves to finish equal second with Horsham Blue Star, with only host club Crawley AC ahead at the end of the match and leaving East Grinstead, Worthing and Haywards Heath trailing in their wake.
The false economics of China manufacturing

1 month ago | bakerontech.com | Phil Baker

Low cost manufacturing in China has taken manufacturing jobs from this country, but that does not tell the entire story about the economic impact it has had.
Cheap but useful products found on Amazon

1 month ago | bakerontech.com | Phil Baker

With new tariffs being imposed, our diet of cheap gadgets that we find on Amazon may be coming to an end. Some say we overbuy and don’t need most of the stuff we find there, especially the products from no-name companies in China. But as I looked over my purchases, I found a number of products that I discovered on Amazon that were really useful, many that I never knew even existed.