A recent set of surveys in the US has shown that the iPod generation are happy with storage size, screen size and so forth but what they really want is a built-in radio in the next iPod. Sure, I can see the benefit but I also can’t help wondering if the same people realise that… Read More »We want radio!
Yes, it official, at least in PC world magazine. The top 50 tech products of all time have been named. I must say that I was completely shocked to see Netscape Navigator (from 1994) appear at the number 1 spot but not so surprised to see the Apple II appear at the number 2 spot,… Read More »Top 50 Tech Products
In the UK, BT have announced that the uptake of broadband services has been so substantial that they are making the decision to withdraw from consumer ISDN provisioning. Yes, the ultrafast Integrated Digital Services Network lines that served the speed hungry web users of yesteryear are to be no more. A passing piece of internet… Read More »Bye Bye ISDN
If I had read this yesterday I wouldn’t have believed it. Apple are to offer the entire EMI catalogue on iTunes DRM-free! Granted you will have to pay 130% of the price for each track compared to the evil DRM versions but still it’s a step in the right direction. We need to see this… Read More »EMI no DRM on iTunes
First read about this case when Bernie G posted a Twitter note about it. It’s a wrongful dismissal case regarding a secretary who maintained a blog in the mode of “Bridget Jones’ Diary” to the dislike of her employers. Despite never naming parties in the blog posts her employers took exception to the content and… Read More »Bridget Jones: The Edge of Treason
ICANN, the mysterious folk behind the internet thingy, have met and rejected the establishment of the .xxx top level domain. It’s an absolute shame from the point of view of easy control of websites if these TLD domain names were only to be issued to adult sites. But even more of a shame is that… Read More »ICANN Rejects 30
Everyone interested in computing has at least one old computer lying around. We’ve either upgraded and not thrown out the old unit (you’ll never know it it will come in handy) or like me you just can’t resist having multiple computers in your home. Too often it is true that the old machines are never… Read More »Preserving the Techno-past
Normally I’m not one to get frustrated with MovableType (my blogging software) but today I’m a little upset that it’s not doing what I would like it to. I decided to retro-fit some new categories to my blog and stumbled upon the complete absence of a batch editor of any value at all. The current… Read More »ImmovableType
Some time ago I set out to achieve something in the blogosphere: To improve my level of visibility in the world and to measure that using Technorati. I have been doing a number of things to help with this, some of which I will divulge others are trade secrets. 🙂 When I started my journey… Read More »Technorati – I did it!
After many years of following the legal battles of the RIAA and cringing at everything that has happened, from suing 12-year-olds to claiming that they are oh so poor, this has to be the best yet. The RIAA have now explained why they are suing everyone from kids to adults, but especially kids. Apparently if… Read More »Sex, drugs and a good lesson learned